If you're dating me you have to be comfortable with a lot of casual silence. Sometimes I just don't talk. Sometimes I don't shut up & talk about random
Educate your children about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and people who display narcissistic traits. Teach them to recognize gaslighting, manipulation, avoidant behavior, provoking spirits, trickster spirits, energy vampires, and other related concepts.
People can be in complete denial about how deeply their actions affected you. They blame the relationship falling apart on being “unaligned.” No, it was the way you treated someone who genuinely loved you. You were horrible to them, and calling it misalignment doesn’t erase that.
to love someone as a friend is to be inconvenienced sometimes and that's okay. you have to show up for the people you care about and this whole hyper-independence mentality going around right now is really frustrating