There is a moment every narcissist fears more than rejection, more than arguments, more than even being exposed. And that moment is silence. Not silence out of weakness. Not silence out of sadness. But the silence that comes after someone has finally stopped fighting for their attention.
Most people assume narcissists want conflict. They assume drama is what feeds them. But conflict is not the real fuel. Attention is the fuel. And silence cuts that supply off completely.
At first, you don’t even realize what’s happening. You just get tired. Tired of explaining yourself. Tired of defending your feelings. Tired of trying to make someone understand pain they refuse to acknowledge. So you stop. You stop texting first. You stop chasing clarity. You stop performing the emotional labor of holding the relationship together by yourself.
And that is exactly when everything shifts.
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