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Has your partner or family member ever: Blamed you for financial stress even though they are the ones over-spending? Forged your name on...
Psychopaths are cunning charmers and master manipulators, to the point where you start to accept the most extreme behaviors as normal…Even if it...
“Subtle Abusers are experts at twisting things around so that everything is your fault, and since they do not take responsibility for themselves,...
Partners of Cluster-B individuals often wonder if they'll ever receive an apology. The answer is: you might, but it won't be genuine. Here's why....
A big part of Cluster-B disorders (NPD, ASPD, BPD, HPD) is about shame-avoidance and rejection-avoidance. This leads to the well-known Idealize,...
One of the most common patterns among ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder), NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder), and BPD (Borderline...
Blame-shifting is when a person does something wrong or inappropriate, and then dumps the blame on someone else to avoid taking responsibility for...
Narcissists can target anyone, but a lot of survivors categorize themselves as People Pleasers. So this article is for anyone who resonates with...
Gas-lighting is one of the most dangerous and insidious forms of emotional abuse. Left untended, it can have long lasting effects like self doubt,...
I'm reading an interesting book called The Way of the Human (Volume II) by Stephen Wolinsky, PhD. He describes how narcissistic wounds occur when...
I shared this article a while back and a lot of people resonated with it: Understanding Your Core Pain and False Self We first experience our core...
Normally when you tell a partner that something is upsetting you, they work on doing less of it. But with a sociopath or narcissist, they'll start...
I get this question all the time, and my answer is always the same: don't try to win. As soon as we engage in this win / lose mentality, we...
Narcissistic infidelity differs from "normal" cheating, because a narcissist feels no shame or remorse for what they've done. In fact, they...
The experience that I write about here on PF was also my first experience with romantic love. This gave me a bit of a warped understanding of love...
After psychological abuse, many survivors feel broken, like they will never return back to the person they were before. Joy and love seems to have...
Toxic people (especially narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths) are often called "energy vampires" because they drain their targets of all natural...
In more or less words, this is the underlying theme of most psychological abuse. Your jealousy is wrong when they triangulate you. Your needs are...
After psychological abuse, many people feel that they've become a "magnet" for toxic people. I want to be clear that nobody "attracts" or...
During and after narcissistic abuse, it's quite common to do things that violate our own values. This often leads to shame and distrust in the...
