You offer depth, understanding, and stability. You carried burdens you didn’t create. You believed in someone who didn’t believe in themselves. That is rare. That is holy. And they treated it like something disposable. Now, long after the story is over, the awareness lingers: I let the best go. That’s the price of hurting someone with strong principles. The build doesn’t arrive in the moment of betrayal; it shows up years later in the quiet, in the emptiness, in the realization that a sacred connection was burned to the ground for nothing of real value.
So, what about you? You could have fallen apart and stayed there. No one would have blamed you. But you didn’t. You healed. You learned. You grew into someone wiser, stronger, and kinder to yourself. You began to see your own worth with a clarity you never had before. And that healing, that growth, that joy is the one truth the narcissist can’t escape.
The narcissist thought the game would end with you destroyed. Instead, the story ends with you standing—not bitter, but blessed; not broken, but rebuilt. True strength isn’t in crushing others. True strength is the grace to endure, the courage to walk away, and the wisdom to guard your heart from those who treat it like a toy. You weren’t undone by their games; you were refined by them.
Every step forward you take, every new boundary you set, and every peaceful night you sleep becomes a living reminder of what the narcissist lost and will never get back. The narcissist lives with absence and emptiness. You live with freedom, clarity, and self-respect. You survived. You healed. And now you are living a life that proves the narcissist never defined you in the first place.
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