Sexting is one of their favorite addictive behaviors that they are likely doing with many others on the side. Whether it’s done consciously or subconsciously, most of the narcissist’s texting during the love bombing phase is for the purpose of hijacking your brain chemistry, specifically your reward pathways, to get you addicted to them. And sexting is a great way to do this. Soon, you will find that you can hardly think about anything else. You are addicted to the narcissist. You’re hooked on your phone, waiting for their next text. There are no limits and no boundaries. It’s like the drug dealer is giving you as much of your drug of choice as you want for free. But once the love bombing stage comes to an end, you’ll feel the withdrawal, and it’s typically quite an abrupt shift.
Suddenly, you will no longer be flooded with validating texts. Instead, the narcissist will be quiet, withdrawn, they become avoidant, not responding as quickly, or definitely without the same level of intensity. So just quickly before I get to the next toxic texting habit, let me just say that healthy relationships can also start out with a strong honeymoon phase where there’s lots of texting and there’s plenty of praise and validation. But it’s not so constant that it’s addictive, so much so that you can’t even focus on anything else. Also, there’s not an abrupt stop. Partners continue to text each other respectfully, even though it becomes maybe less as time goes on. Another thing is that they don’t engage in the rest of these toxic texting behaviors.
3. Intermittent Ghosting
So this typically happens once the narcissist has you hooked on them, and they’re no longer getting the same high from you. So they start pulling away, and so you go from receiving intense constant texts to them leaving you on red. So they might send you a short morning text asking them how you’re doing. You might respond right away, but then they don’t answer you for the rest of the day. When they come back, they have some lame excuse saying, you know, they’re busy at work or something. But the truth is, they are losing interest.
Weird Habits of Covert narcissist
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