The last 5 days have been a whirlwind. From some much needed family time to publicly outing the narcissist to my son getting sick, it seemed nonstop.
Tonight, it’s settled. Even though it’s just a moment in time.
There’s a quiet that is currently setting in.
The narcissist has tried taking me down. He’s not going to stop. It’s a path he started going down well over a year ago and it’s a path he’s going to keep walking until he gets his way.
Tonight, it’s one of the few nights I’m claiming. There’s a wedge that developed in a lot of relationships that was put there by the narcissist. It worked on breaking a few of those relationships up. I’m not going to go chasing after them, either.
He may have driven a wedge between some of use, but he’s not breaking the relationship I have with my son. He’s trying. It was starting to work. But I caught on. The brakes have been activated. I’m trying to reverse some of the damage that was already done. It’ll be a slow process, but we’ll get there.
The break off moments. The quiet moments. The silence that sometimes comes when you’re just enjoying each other’s company. The healing that comes with it. The times when you don’t need words because the feeling is there and you just need to sit back to soak it in.
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