I was just aimlessly scrolling through Pinterest trying to kill some time during an afternoon slump at work and I came across this quote. It triggered a little rabbit hole of memories that made me want to write and share. “As a little girl, I was scared that there would be monsters sleeping under my […]
I had a random memory last night of something that The Narcissist used to do towards the end of our marriage that drove me absolutely crazy. As with most things involving The Narcissist this simple memory sent me down a spiral of other memories and resulted in me doing a bit of research this morning. […]
Anger seemed to be a constant topic of discussion in my marriage and divorce with The Narcissist, and I wanted to break it down a bit into the big categories of Anger throughout my time with The Narcissist and my healing process post-divorce: His Anger – he came back from a deployment and for a period […]
aka: The things I wish someone taught me when I was a pre-teen girl. Dating should be about figuring out what you want and what you don’t want. For some reason when I was young I had this mentality that every person I dated was going to be “forever.” I can remember even as young as […]
I was looking through old photos on the computer this week. One of the many minor hassles that came out of disentangling my life with The Narcissist was that I needed to completely start my electronic life over again… email addresses, passwords, new computer, new iCloud accounts, new phone accounts… on and on. I had […]
My life has gotten to a point where most days I am able to get through without even remembering that I was once mentally, emotionally and physically abused. I’ve put in the work, I’ve done the healing, and where many things used to make me think of the abuse or at the very least the […]
I came across someone on Twitter who is doing some research on narcissistic abuse and struggling with understanding why victims of narcissistic abuse stay in the abusive relationships. I reached out and recommended that they read the #whyIstayed hashtag where victims in all types of abusive relationships summarize the reasons why they stayed… and I also […]
The month of October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and I am trying to be as active as can be on social media to spread the word. At 23 years old I found myself married to someone who epitomized Jekyll and Hyde. Most people looked at our marriage and saw two beautiful and happy people. Most […]
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