When the masks fall...🎭✨👹

I met someone recently who had high value traits.

A group actually. We spent some time together.

There was some concerns I had in my gut... amber bells/flags... so I tread carefully... (or maybe they were red flags that I 'tolerated' (cringe)).

Anyway... it all went sour recently. I'm grateful for the level of awareness, discernment and self protection I DO have, and did exercise, throughout this experience. And, it still sucks... and stings, at times.

Narcissists FLIP OUT when they realise you can not, and will not, be manipulated.

F-L-I-P. O-U-T.

There was of course, some requisite psychotic DARVO-ing, self-victimhood, and other usual bullshit.

I'll probably have more clarity once I'm emotionally out the other end of it.

Part of me wonders whether I could have done better, or not engaged at all... although I did get something out of the experience, too. And you never know with people whether their good traits, or their flaws, will be more dominant. We all have flaws, after all.

And then another part of me knows that THEIR behaviour and stuff has NOTHING to do with me. they will have been like that before we came into each others' worlds, and they will clearly continue to be like that afterwards (g-d help their next victims).

UHGH!

Thankful for all my growth and strength over the last few years that is helping me deal with this a lot better than previously ... Also, ouch!