@teresondupuy: If this person is toxic, highly manipulative, and consistently harming you, stop making their healing your assignment. You cannot love someone into accountability. You cannot explain them into empathy. You cannot sacrifice enough of yourself to finally make them safe. And whether or not they carry a clinical diagnosis, the behavior is what matters. If they lie, manipulate, control, punish, gaslight, exploit, or repeatedly destabilize you, take that seriously. You do not need to fix them. You need to protect yourself. Create distance. Rebuild your boundaries. Heal the part of you that kept hoping love could turn someone unsafe into someone safe. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do for yourself is leave. Stop trying to save them. Save yourself. #NarcissisticAbuse #HealingJourney #Boundaries #SelfWorth #Empath