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ExNameForUse 54F
4227 posts
5/18/2023 11:56 am
Narcissistic Abuse_The Cycle_The Effects_The Exit

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ExNameForUse 54F
5767 posts
5/18/2023 11:57 am

Healing from narcissistic abuse can be a long road to recovery, but you can heal and live a full happy life. Things to focus on are: working through denial, guilt, and shame, processing the grief of ending the relationship, challenging your negative thoughts and feeling, dealing with depression, anxiety, or other mental health symptoms, reclaiming your identity, forgiving yourself, understanding your feelings, build new coping skills, tell others about the abuse, fight the urge to contact or get back with the abuser.
And you can do it all.


switchtobottom 61M  
18 posts
5/18/2023 12:04 pm

All this is so true


ExNameForUse replies on 5/19/2023 12:40 pm:
Unfortunatelly.

lighthouse4297 56F
1680 posts
5/18/2023 1:29 pm

This is what you need to remember. xoxo L


ExNameForUse replies on 5/19/2023 12:45 pm:
Oh, dear ... there were nights... but sleeping better and better, my headaches eased, and my anxiety fading slowly now... still plenty of work to be done, but it is one step at a time... and I am more than good and enough to complete it

bdsmDOMdaddy 61M
4225 posts
5/18/2023 5:56 pm

all good stuff Ex you are well on your way to healing yourself girl...brava!


ExNameForUse replies on 5/19/2023 12:46 pm:
Good stuff, BDD. Hope it may be helpful for somebody else to read it as well

boh99 68M
3172 posts
5/18/2023 7:12 pm

good post


ExNameForUse replies on 5/19/2023 12:47 pm:
Thank you!

rosaenaluin 65F
11090 posts
5/19/2023 1:13 am

Forgive yourself is one very important point.
Comfort yourself, in matters that fits best with your needs.

It is not a matter of blame, or fault....
Thát is totally not interesting, that is not what this is about.

Acknowledge your own worth, every day, in all you are doing, to build yourself up, again, is also very, very important.

Try to understand the mechanisms, you did fall for, is also very, very important.
And most probably, take on some therapy! Please!
To heal old wounds...

And! know your own pitfalls!
Be aware! of those, every time.

It is hard and a lot of work, to heal from such contact
You are worth it!!! All of it!!


ExNameForUse replies on 5/19/2023 12:52 pm:
All wise words, dear Rosa, thank you very much... it is a lot of work, roots are implanted deep and really long time ago... my mum did a great job
I don't blame anyone actually... not myself, nor anyone who ever mistreated me along the way... we all do what we know best.
I should have known better, but I didn't. Now I know, so better late than never.
I have good days, and bad days, but have my ways to keep myself focused on what's important for me - me

rosaenaluin 65F
11090 posts
5/20/2023 11:51 am

Dear ExName
For sure, it is about you.
As it should, in a healthy way!

And, yes, i think, at least that counts for mé, that "your mum did a great job" is my archilles heel,
And maybe for you, too?

In contact with men, or other people, in wich you are, or want to emotionally investing....
Or with wich you want to build a bond, connection.....

A dominant, will try to understand where you are coming from,
and will think about if he is capable of handeling that part, too...
Or, at least understand/ accept it......

If that is even possible wiith "our?" kind of childhood emotional abuse/neglect...?


ExNameForUse replies on 5/20/2023 12:29 pm:
This is all so very complex, yet simple... I believe we are all searching for love, acceptance, and understanding. Some of us will do that in one way, some in some other... why we hurt each other when we are already hurt, I don't know. ..


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