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Here's what nobody tells you in the first six months after leaving: you'll miss them. Not the relationship. Them. And you'll hate yourself for it. I've sat across from hundreds of women in this exact spot. Smart women. Capable women, the kind who ran companies and raised kids and still ended up wondering what was wrong with them for "letting" this happen twice. It didn't happen because they were weak.

Many survivors of narcissistic abuse ask: “When did I disappear?” Identity erosion happens quietly through small compromises, gaslighting, and lost trust in your own voice. It feels like depersonalization — forgetting what you like, hypervigilance, and chronic self-betrayal. Your body often knew first. Healing starts with small reclamations: expressing real preferences and rebuilding trust in your perceptions.

Have you ever wondered why empaths—those deeply intuitive, compassionate individuals—so often find themselves in toxic relationships with narcissists?