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Twist in Time

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I think that one of the hardest things for me has been accepting that after over two decades of my parents trying to protect me from the world…

I allowed the grand illusion to be shattered.

All of their hard work, the effort made by my parents and sibling collectively, were suddenly pointless because I could never go back, no matter how badly I wanted to.

I haven’t written anything in a while, whenever I begin typing something within me stops. My stories have no worth to anyone, not even to myself when my heart still belongs to a home that never existed.

After over a year of no contact, my ex and I saw each other, and whilst I had convinced myself that I had grown stronger and mature enough to handle the situation…I got sucked right back in.

The emotions spilled out of me like a volcano that had been threatening to errupt for years until suddenly it all came down, burning all the progress I had made.

He looks better, he seems so much more decent and composed, his life has become luxurious and more sensible..Everything is cleaner and he is extremely productive…he travels and goes out and is filled with energy and does what he says he will when he says it….

Was I the reason that this man was at his worst? Was I the thing holding him back?

There’s something so painful about seeing your past move forward without you…every part of me is happy for him because he is then I always knew he could be…but I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a fraction of bitterness that continues to ask what was wrong with me?

Why wasn’t I enough?

I look back at the time we had together and I contemplate the weeks since I’ve seen him again, and I don’t know which parts are real and which aren’t. Such a vast difference in experiences cannot possibly belong in the same narrative and so I find myself questioning which events really happened and which ones were dramatized in my brain ? It starts to feel like there really isn’t a winning combination.

I’ve never wanted to have kids…but recently I find myself thinking about what I would have been like as a mom…and I know that I could never put out a spawn into this world who would have the potential to hurt another person’s treasure. I know that my father would be heart broken if he witnessed the way my relationships played put, his little girl turned from princess into Cinderella…the story wasn’t meant to be that way…

History has a way of repeating itself and sometimes the hero of the story ends up being the villain…procreation was never an option for someone like me.

If I have learnt anything these past few weeks, it’s that even if it is a trauma bond…it doesn’t mean that it’s not love as well. I am still as in love with him as I was 6 years ago…as much as he is trying to be my friend and I am trying to be his…the hardest part is pretending that I am fine with just that knowing that all I’ve ever wanted was to be his.

Maybe there is some sort of magic to this chaos…maybe if we find a way to truly remain friends…the cycle of narcissism will break and maybe this time we will beat the psychology and maybe just maybe…that will be the healing our souls have needed.

If Closure Were An Episode

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“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost…”

I painted this piece at midnight, with insomnia as my only friend. Whilst embarking on the creative adventure, a scenario played out in my head…all the things she said as she took a drag of her cigarette…a long deep breath filled with nicotine as she finally received the closure she deserved…this is my narrative…

“The last honest thing I ever did was love you…”

(I copied this image from an already existing piece, I do not know the artist but this is not an original idea)

She leaned against the wall… NO! If I’m going to tell this story, I am going to tell it right…

I leaned against the wall, it was me, this story is mine…this time I am the main character, and yes…it happened to me!

Even in a rendition, I feel the urge to enter my confessional with my defensiveness firing! How many times had I been on the receiving end of those very accusations!? They weren’t even accusatory, they were statements! Solid beliefs designed to hurt and stop me in my silly tracks as I recoiled from the sheer mention of me trying to be the focal point of something…leave alone my own life!

How many times have YOU experienced that?? How many times have you done it to someone else? Does it occur that weeks, months and even years later the behavior becomes ingrained into the persons mind! Their character which was probably already pretty humble to begin with is now just an eruption of insecurities and self doubt?!

Standing with her back against the wall, for once a decision rather than a reaction, she put the thin cigarette to her lips…convincing her hand to steady and praying that her breath would follow suite. How was it that even after all this time, the only way to consider the damage that was done was to remove herself from the architecture and assume an entirely 3rd person stance in her own narrative.

Waking up from what felt like a coma, some sort of Sleeping Beauty curse where the entire kingdom had fallen to the ground, that was the only way to view the entrance back into a functional and non-toxic life.

Her decisions, good or bad were now her own! Drinking to numb the pain, knowing she was not an alcoholic, smoking to form a habit other than cutting…knowing that I did not make her any less lady like than doing all the heavy lifting was back in the dark days. Yes! Her dark days! The ones where she forgot everything she had known prior to the breaking down of self!

This was her vessel, her temple to destroy or rebuild and the excuses and ammo her actions so often gave him in order to triangulate his support system, no longer served as a mechanism to validate him and demean her…this was her war cry, and he knew it the moment he turned the corner in time to watch her puff the smoke out her hollow cheeks.

“I see you’ve become a full time smoker now…”

As he paused to do his “I’m going to pretend to take a breath like this just occurred to me then try to act like I wasn’t going to say it but then dramatize how my concern for you is just too powerful and so I just have to be the bad guy and say some horrible things to you that need to be translated into I care”…

She threw the cigarette down clumsily, stomped on it because that’s how they did it in the movies and took a deep breath. “I do believe your judgments have been passed, and whilst I am appreciative of the panels opinion, I do not have the time for a hearing right now”.

The expression on his face betrayed his skillset! He was completely unable to control the rage that shot across his face, his twitching eye revealing his secrets…

How was a man who claimed calm to be his mantra, THAT aggrevated by her shutting down of his annihilation?! Oh right! This was a direct attack on his honor! A character assassination! This was her being all the things he had repeated to her over and over again…

Maybe he was right this time!

“You don’t even know who you are anymore, behavior like that! Your parents would be so disgusted with you”… and there we have it…desperate attack number two coming in hot…she knew that if she did not end it right now, closure would no longer be an option for either of them.

This was her last dramatic and deep breath of the day…this was certainly the last monologue she would be delivering to him ever… and the choice was his…to listen to it or not to…

“Who I am and who i was and who you perceive me to be will forever be irrelevant, not just to you but to the entirety of our once existing relationship. Whatever form I may have taken on, I did not conjure up the power to act or speak for you, that responsibility has always been your own. “

” The last authentic thing I did was love you, it was real, it was so true…it was the most natural thing I ever could have done! So natural in fact, that I HAD to become someone else inorder to convince myself that letting you go was loving you!! No amount of gaslighting, harmful behavior, scary outbursts or hurtful plots from you will convince me that I did not love you, and that I did not love you well enough. I may doubt myself, but the only thing I have ever had certainty of was my love for you.”

A single tear rolled down her cheek, tangling into the single strand of her hair that crossed her eye and lay delicately on the bottom of her face…she could not take another deep breath here, the risk of breathing his allure in again was far too strong…

Instead, she looked up, pursed her lips and gave him the smile that only he had ever seen, it was a smile created by him, it was only fitting that the last look she gave him was the one reserved for him.

He caught her gaze, his own softening as they exchanged an interaction in a realm far from our own…

“Maybe not in this lifetime…maybe in the next” she thought as she walked away…

All You Had To Do Was Stay

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Taylor Gets It Right

Either Taylor Swift is predicting my future…or she and I are the same person…but there is no alternative!

It’s obviously been months since my tragic breakup, and I say obviously because if you’ve even read a title of one of my posts, you’ve basically been on the journey with me!

I’m predominantly Christian but I do like to think that I am more spiritual than religious…I got into the habit of keeping none denominational angel cards around so that i could get answers to things I couldn’t figure out…that thing was my narc…

After the breakup I became so heavily dependent on them and the YouTube channels that did readings…my cards kept telling me to let go but the channels kept saying he is the one! And I lost it…

Like yes! He is coming for me?! He is going to reach out?!

-pile of stuff shows up in my house-

Uhm thus is not what I thought you meant when you said he would reach out! This is passive aggressive…I needed “omg I’m sorry i love you…”

That wasn’t what I got! Eventually I had a bit of a mental breakdown and I came to the conclusion (with the help of my trusty cards), that I have no choice but to surrender and let go! Of course it doesn’t mean I don’t love him…ot just means I have no intention or expectation when it comes to my relationship or interactions with him…I detach and transmute our energy.

If only!

I had like a solid 20 hours of “yay look at me and my bad self!! Ain’t feeling nothing but sunshine and rainbo…oh no oh no”…enter the water works! It just didn’t last…my narcy McNarcy pants popped right back into my brain confusing the hell out of me!

The things is, yes, I know that it’s the aftermath of an abusive/narcissistic relationship…yes it’s harder to let go…but I also know that the connection and bond was deeper and that he was a product of his trauma…the same way that I started becoming a product of mine!

While this is meant to take time to heal and process, I just want him here now! I want to be held and bury my face in his chest and hear the sound of his beating heart…just for a moment! Didn’t he know that?! Do they know that when they ghost us?! Is that why they do it?! Does that validation of causing us misery long after they disappear give them satisfaction?!

Is it like this just because they ghosted?! That lack of closure and brain jolt…is that why I cant get a grip?! I need answers!!! Someone!

I wanted the demons and monsters and ghosts of his bloody past that made him happier than I ever could…I knew all of that, and I wanted that…and even on the worst day when he did the most disgusting things…all he had to do was fucking stay!

Language!!! I apologize!

All he had to do was stay!! He just had to stay, continue to have dick out moments…but the love made it worth it…after everything, it still seemed worth it to me! I wish that I could push a button and undo what he has done…no not the hurt and the pain…not the toxic behaviors and breaking down of my character and health…just him leaving…I would undo that!

He ran far enough to lose me, but remained close enough to hurt me…I guess he kind of did stay…

Ohana

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“Ohana means family…and family means nobody gets left behind…or forgotten…”

Everyone deserve a family…an “ohana”…no one is perfect…no one ever will be.

It’s so easy to say you love someone, but so hard to prove just how unconditional love is! At the lack of a transactional exchange we are able to discard that love and pretend that it never existed.

I suppose this is a letter to him, a letter to any of the narcs, sociopaths, dids etc who have been abandoned because of the damage and destruction caused…and some just because they are different. Not every person allows their disorder to turn them into abusive and damaging people, they work every single day to be better and different and so often…they do.

It is unfair to umbrella every single person under one blanket assumption that they are just unsafe…the truth is…we all are. In our own ways when our safety is threatened we turn into the very things we were fighting against…I know I certainly have.

To my ex…you will ALWAYS be my ohana, and I will never leave you behind in whatever way I can. Just because we cannot be together does not mean that I stopped loving you or forgot you or tried to replace you. Love doesn’t mean being together, it doesn’t alway even mean liking or trusting the person…it means unconditionally and unequivocally…you are loved and you always have a home even if you aren’t there.

Being able to remove oneself from what it means to love and be loved in return is difficult…I’ve fought for so long to tell myself how much I can’t stand him, but the truth is that I know him, and while every single thing that happened can never be forgiven and it will never stop hurting, the damage is irreparable…he is still somewhere in there, past his actions, beyond his horrible words…deep down behind the pain and trauma … is a man trapped in a world he cannot escape…and that man is loved.

He is not his actions, his diagnosis or his decisions…

On a physical level … I am not safe…and I am better now than I was with him…on an emotional one, I loved him and will continue to with all his demons that suffocate him as much as they tried to suffocate me!! He is safer without someone who gets past his prison walls…I scratched the wall…it was no longer safe…and I understand that now…but my heart still belongs to him.

Lilo and Stitch is such a deep animation…Lilo loves Stitch and is willing to risk her safety in order to push past his hurt ..I never realized up until now just how insanely apt it is in relation to my relationship.

He was my Stitch…and every 626 deserves love…real love…not ownership and manipulation…Raw and real love.

No one wants to be the bad guy…but no one wants to acknowledge that we all become the villain at some point and we need to fix it…

I wish Stitch would come back home…to me…but I also know that Stitch would wreck what was left of home, and maybe it’s better this way…to love him from a safe distance…but to still love him.

Ohana means family…and family means no one gets left behind…or…

640 ➿

Narc Rehab

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” They tried to make me go to rehab but I said no no nooooo”

Yes he’s been bad but man am I sad…I can’t let gooo gooo goooo…

I personally feel like my rendition of the song has a ring to it…something that sticks, in your gutt, like a knife to the chest…piercing your heart but not killing you…forcing you to endure the agony while slowly bleeding out and gasping for air!!

Sorry!! #toofar?!

Man alive! I am not coping at all! I hate to be that suckered, but maybe it’s just because my ex was a bloody gunner of note…hot beyond belief, accent to match, super fit, martial artist, could build anything (yes to shirtless construction, bulldoze your way to my heart you chiseled specimen!)…intelligent…way too intelligent for his own good…the list could go on…

On a more shallow and superficial level, that’s already a pretty difficult order to kind of just let go off…add in the soul deep connections…love…history…blah blah blah…you have a recipe for an addiction level disaster!

That’s the thing…I realized recently, by recently I mean seconds before I typed that sentence…that I am an addict! I am addicted to this man’s love, pain, narcissistic abusive tendencies and the heart I know he had!

Everything about him calls to me, and while I become more aware of the horrible treatment with each day…I also know that I am the only one who can fully understand the laughs we shared…how our hands fit perfectly together…how my nose nuzzled into his neck just right…

Those moments that were shared just between the two of us will be something that only I will be able to feel and understand…those are the things that keep abused partners trapped…

In no way do I compare our relationship to that of a properly abusive one…his behavior was a result of his upbringing and unfortunately continued reinforcement of bad behavior from his family…it was never going to be any different…I don’t excuse it…but I certainly do understand it!

I don’t think anyone wants to be bad…sometimes we are the products of so many factors that are out of our control…and yes…there are some who choose to be better and do better…but for others, it just is not possible!

In the same way that I am addicted to him…he was addicted to the idea of being seen as a hero. He had to let go of the one thing that made him realize that perhaps there were some demons he could not control…he had to let go of me.

The hardest part was that I was willing to carry those demons, I wanted them because I knew in order to love him I had to love all of him. I was willing to sacrifice my sanity…he was not willing to sacrifice his pride and the possibility that he could in fact be a damaging person…

He chose to give me up instead…

Maybe life is better for him now, I in no way believe that my behavior by the time we got to the end was even remotely sane, I was a borderline lunatic crying for every single thing, having panic attacks at the tiniest lie, reacting as if the world were ending at every snide comment…I was erratic.

If his life has become peaceful, fun and happier…then i will be able to find my own peace…the fact that he has summoned up so many more luxuries, friends…etc that he never could for us… shows how vastly different his life is now to what it was with me then…

My life is still the same if not just a tad more uncomfortable…I’m not sure if that’s bad or good…but I am still doing exactly what I was back then…working, being domestic and trying to sort out a life, except now that life is for myself and not for us.

Whatever was mine was his too…I had no secrets, no secret life…no finances that were hidden…I went all in even when I knew I could lose it all…my backup was him.

I want to protect him, hold him, love him and save him…but maybe the person who needs saving is me. Maybe i actually am the one who is weak…needy…helpless…hurtful…it could very well be me…

I want to be more and better and to grow and learn from every single experience…and if that means that perhaps I am the narc, I hope I find out soon…

Whichever way I look at it…I’m in need of serious rehab…

I Narc Some Sleep

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I need some sleep…trying to put the old horse down…I’m in too deep and the wheels keep spinning round….everyone says, that I’m getting down too low…everyone says, you just gotta let it go…

Eels

It’s almost 2am…in a scant 2 hours I’m meant to be waking up and getting ready for work, it’s also 11:11…a manifestation portal is open and if you’re into that sort of thing, it’s a big day….

With all this information at hand…the one crucial thing to remember is that I feel so aware of how heartbroken I still am…8 months later and the depression has only escalated…and my anxiety accelerated.

You love someone despite…but it’s that despite that begins to formulate the opinion that dictates insanity is only a mild symptom of le Armour…

My heart tells me that he is the one, my loyalty tells me that I am the narcissist, not him. My logic however, dictates that I am in fact the lucky escapee of a man so ruined by his history and trauma that he could not pull himself towards himself enough for him to recognize how destructive he was and probably still is.

No amount of excuses will be able to justify how he went from being “incapable” of something when he was with me, to blinking and being the leading expert in it all of a sudden…how can that be interpreted in any other way?

I lie here sleepless, not him!

  • I am the one who loses sleep
  • I am the one unable to function
  • I am the one picking up the pieces
  • I am the one living my truth
  • I am the one protecting him
  • I am the one still lying for him

He is the one who put us here…

I need some sleep, I need to find my life, the one where he o longer rules my thoughts and decisions…where I am more me and less him…

I need to no longer be the one who immortalizes him…I cannot be his poet any longer, when all I ever was to him was the bridge of a failed song.

No matter how much you love your narc, letting go is the boldest act of unconditional love that you could perform…

One Of Us

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” The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our soul” – Edgar Allen Poe

It was not until I was fully sober and terribly hungover the next morning that I fully had time to reflect on the clown that I was becoming. Drunk, purposefully getting the attention of strangers and being the entertainment at what was an already theatrical establishment.

What was I doing?!?

I’m not this girl! I’m not this person! But I wanted them all to want me, I wanted them all to know I could have them and not the other way around, what’s more…I wanted HIM to know! Somehow I wanted him to see!!

8 months later and the self sabotage was kicking in, the only person I was hurting here was myself. I can’t stand hurting anyone else, I definitely am not into the partying lifestyle and I certainly don’t want to be touched by people who aren’t him…but there I was…

It’s easy to blame him and I’m sure a massive part of my mind does…but he never made the decisions for me he just informed my view of myself.

If I am not his, then I am not anyone’s and if I belong to no one then anyone can have me and I can have anyone.

What rubbish is that?! I sound like a bad teenage spoof movie!! This toxic mindset, this behavior…it’s destroying me. I am a shell, I feel so empty and that is the only feeling I have…nothingness…

Surely it won’t always be this way…the problem is that I’m afraid that this is the real me…that I’m waiting for the innocent girl to return and the sunshine and rainbows…but actually, this dark soul is who I really am!

Has my experiences with narcissistic, physically and mentally abusive men actually tarnished and tainted me?! Or am I the product of my own internal darkness??

Were they just catalysts for my agenda that was unbeknownst to even myself…I just don’t understand so much of this. I just want him back, I want him to take me home and hold my broken pieces and tell me that it’s okay…

On my journey to heal, I’ve ended up trying to make myself as worthless and not enough as he made me feel and told me I was…I’m trying to become the woman he left…not the woman I am…

Maybe he took all the good pieces…I would have wanted him to anyway….