You won’t be able to tolerate their absence for long, and they know you will come back more compliant. Why is this an evil psychological tactic? As humans, we have evolved to thrive through connection. Isolation causes us to wither away. Healthy dependency is necessary, but narcissists take advantage of this. By abandoning you, withholding affection, or not talking to you, they abuse you to the point where you give up on your wishes and everything else, and you come back to them, more compliant.
They use hypersuggestibility:
hey repeatedly say the same things until you start believing them. Just like a mosquito bite becomes unbearable after numerous bites, your brain and body react similarly to a narcissist who constantly tells you things like, “You are making it up,” “It never happened,” or “You’re remembering it wrong.” They keep saying it until it becomes your reality. If something is repeated often enough, people start believing it. Narcissists bypass your critical factor through abuse, making you more vulnerable to what they say about you.
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