How The Narcissist Works In Cycles, Breaking You More With Each Round

Stage 1: Love Overdose

Narcissists know exactly what you want to hear. They will make you feel special and make your connection feel rare. They make your chemistry feel intense by jumping in quickly ad deeply. They want you to feel like you should hold on because you might never have an experience like this again.

They will shower you with love and affection, and promises to always choose you. However narcissists can be opportunistic, and whether they're doing it consciously or not, they're manipulating you into falling for them.

Stage 2: Accessing Vulnerability

A narcissist will make it seem like they trust you enough to share their deepest, darkest secrets with you from the get-go, They do so for three reasons. First, they want you to feel special, like you're the only one they can open up to like this. Second, they want to share a sob story so that you feel bad for them, and justify their coming toxic behavior.They want you to take a caregiver role, which is they often gravitate towards empathy.

Lastly, they want to create enough vulnerability that you also start sharing your darkest and deepest secrets with them. This is their ammo that they will use against you when things don't go their way to tear you from the inside out.

Stage 3: Showing Their True Colors

One you've started to trust and fall for them, drama will seemingly come out of nowhere. You may have thought that everything was going well but they can only keep up their act for so long. One day, they will flip on you. For example, they'll get angry at you for being out too late and not texting them back. They'll make you feel guilty, like you've wronged them simply because you didn' do things exactly their way.

They'll punish you by withholding affection and they'll condition you with their criticism. The more you ask for or confront them about, the more they gaslight you, give you the silent treatment, and turn the tables back on you until you give up or automatically start assuming the blame.

Stage 4: Discarding

At one point or another, this brings them to one of the final stage of the cycle, the discard stage. Eventually, they'll get bored of you. Their need for external validation will be bigger than the one you can supply so they'll look to see if the grass is greener on the other side.

All a sudden all the promises of loving you forever and you being the only one seem empty. You'll feel heartbroken and confused, wondering when and how exactly it all went wrong.

Stage 5: Back And Forth

Sometimes when a Narcissist first discards you, it's just to teach you a lesson. They want you to know how easily they can get rid of you, diminishing your worth. But almost every time after, they come back, now banking on your diminished sense of self-worth and increased attachment to them.

They condition you into staying out of fear of them abandoning you if you don't do and say exactly what they want. However, try to leave them yourself and watch how tightly they hold on, afraid to actually lose you as their supply. They'll promise to change and resort back to stage 1 tactics until they trick you into coming back.

Final Stage: Starting Over

Once you finally put your foot down and refuse to go back, they move on to their next victim. They'll try to get you back for a while, even if they found someone new, simply because their ego can't stand rejection. They rely so heavily on validation from external sources that they simply can't be alone.

That's why their relationship always ends up being codependent. The moment they're truly alone again, they're back on the hunt, showering someone else with love and making them believe they're soulmates, just like they once did with you.

And so, the cycle starts all over again.

It's Not Love

The stages of a relationship with a Narcissist may mimic some sort of love, but it's not real love. At least not the kind that you deserve. It's not for the right reasons and it doesn't serve your needs.

In any relationship, always look at how you feel and ask yourself: does this person make you love yourself more? Do you want to grow old with them?

Love is more than just kisses and butterflies, it's much more than that. If you want to know more on what your birth chart reveals about how you love and what you need out of a partner, check out this personalized report based on date of birth.

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