| | | You won’t realise until the very end that the narcissist has been lying to you from the start.
You weren’t in love with a person – you were in love with an illusion, a lie, a carefully crafted fraud.
A narcissist doesn’t simply enter your life; they construct an entrance. They don’t show you who they are—they show you who you wish they were. Every word is calculated, every gesture rehearsed, every charm deliberate. It feels genuine because they study you deeply, gathering your dreams, your wounds, your insecurities, and your needs. Then they build a character out of everything they’ve learned, and you mistake the character for a soul.
You end up falling for a version of them that was engineered to feel safe, comforting, exciting, or familiar. You fall for the attention, the intensity, the promises, the emotional closeness they manufactured with precision. You think you’ve found something rare, meaningful, even life-changing. You don’t realise that what feels like truth to you is simply a tactic to them.
And as time passes, the cracks appear. The tiny inconsistencies. The subtle disrespect. The shifting stories. The emotional distance that comes without warning. You notice how empathy appears only when they want something. You watch their mask slip when they’re bored, exposed, or not being praised. You’re confused because the person standing in front of you doesn’t match the person you were introduced to.
That confusion is the point. It keeps you attached, trying to make sense of the contradiction. You replay memories, searching for the moment everything changed—never recognising that it was never real to begin with. You’re left grieving a relationship that was built on your sincerity, not their honesty.
But here’s the truth you grow into:
The illusion was powerful because you are capable of powerful love.
They relied on your goodness, not their own.
And when the illusion shatters, you don’t just lose them—you find yourself again. |
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