Why Narcissists Love "Low-Maintenance" Women and Why We Love Animals So Much In my work with survivors of narcissistic abuse, I hear some version of this all the time: "I am really low maintenance. I

  How smart, capable women end up living in their heads with an imaginary prince while staying in very real pain If you are an emotionally intelligent, self-supporting woman who has survived narcissistic abuse, you

When Their Post-Split Glow-Up Makes You Doubt Yourself When they finally “change” after you are gone You cut contact or pull way back. You are exhausted, grieving, trying to remember how to breathe. Then you hear:

If you grew up with a narcissistic parent, you probably spent most of your childhood doing emotional gymnastics to survive. You tried to be: good enough helpful enough quiet enough impressive enough You kept hoping that