@dr.alinakastner: Being with a narcissist doesn’t feel like love, it feels like withdrawal and relief on repeat. The highs are intense, the lows are unbearable, and your brain starts to confuse pain with connection. That’s not a relationship, that’s a cycle your nervous system gets hooked on. You wait for the next moment of warmth, the next apology, the next version of them that feels like “home,” and every time it comes, it resets everything just enough to keep you in. So when you say “I can’t leave,” it’s not weakness, it’s dependency. Not because you’re broken, but because your brain adapted to survive something unpredictable. This is why it feels so hard to walk away, because you’re not just losing a person, you’re breaking a pattern your system learned to rely on. And that’s also why leaving is the moment everything can finally change. #narcissisticabuse #traumabond #toxicrelationships #HealingJourney #breakupwithnarcissism

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