How do You Handle The Emotional Withdrawal Symptoms When Leaving a Narcissists?

You won’t, until it is your last attempt at sanity.

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At first, you won’t be able to handle them. It will be god damn unbearable, it’s exactly why you won’t leave the first, or possible 100th time, the pain is that excruciating.

Staying with the asshole and settling in the lies, manipulation and deceit is a little less painful than the withdrawal of leaving.

What you will do is handle it, until you can’t handle staying no more. Settle, leave or death, that’s the 3 options.

Death is final, and settling is living a life “dead,” and leaving will feel like death, but it’s only temporary.

That’s how I handled it.

I finally realized the emotion hell I was living while leaving was temporary, and I was right. Almost two years removed and she is an afterthought. Everything I thought I’d never do again because of “triggers” I do now with ease, and think nothing about.

You just do it. Trust me on this, you will be OK even if you don’t feel like you will. Feel it, live it, and let it go. In time you will look back with a totally different mindset. But when you do finally break free, because you will. That’s when the real fun begins.

Working on why you stayed, and what you need to do to NEVER repeat it with possibly a more covert type of abuser.