narcissist and polyamory

You Feel like You’re Working Overtime to “Pull” Out Their Emotional Side. Female, Polyamorous, Relationship Fluid, Identity Fluid, Adoptee, DV survivor, Divorcee, Foreigner, Adopted Daughter of a Narcissist, Offspring of a Sociopath and Abuser. He would repeatedly lie/withhold the things he had been doing in order to triangulate. To what end are you sacrificing your own happiness? Even this. He continued cheating with other women, and although I was aware, I stayed in the relationship until I was fed up and broke things off with him. Innocent experimentation between two people deeply in love and I was willing, if not excited about the prospects. While polyamory has the potential to reduce stress, it also has the potential to increase stress. I can only speak this because my Father has asked the same of me. Most importantly, work on forgiving yourself – when you forgive a part of yourself you will start to reclaim some of your power. But, there isn’t enough material out there to keep up with the narcissist’s ever-evolving attempts to justify their many relationship crimes, the main one being infidelity. You definitely deserve much better. I took his “cheating,” behaviors; I.e one night stands, parking lot blow jobs, neighbors who waited until I wasn’t home to approach, and customers of our family business as “opportunities,” for us to understand each other’s relationship values / sexual needs better. Is He/She a Narcissist? Spot on! He wouldn’t reveal that he had a partner, not acceptable in any style of relationship but it’s MUCH worse in an open style. Yet, he would try to convince me we should have sex and shouldn’t feel bad about it bc he doesn’t sleep around or with ‘just anyone.’ He has stood me up multiple times, cancel plans b/c he was busy working on his car, Jenny, and can’t drive. – You’re not crazy. Once you’re in their grip, they’ll start quoting old scripture and/or brainwashing you to believe this is how things are supposed to be. Sounds to me like you need to cut this guy loose and let him stir up drama elsewhere. Our relationship broke down again. They’ll accuse you of exacting revenge or doing it to “make them pay”. Stop the abuse. Oh RIGHT! Thank you. Essentially, polyamory in this case was just one of the specific tools for kind of a generic ‘using up of women,’ (and in particular, preying on women who are young enough to not have been burned yet, and smart enough to think they can manage and fix themselves or the situation for way too long). Hi Peter…Probably laying the groundwork for when you discover she has been cheating and/or seeing other people. Poly ain’t for everybody. Because, truth be told, most narcissists who claim to be polyamorous are simply using it as an excuse to keep an ongoing string of lovers at their beck and call. I had believed this to be a European way of life no offence intended to anyone, As they were Croatian. Yet our identity lies the crossroad of experiences and so do I. He took anything I said on these incidents as a confrontation because he did not want to be accountable for the “loving,”part the way poly people truly are. One time when I was talking to him on the phone on my way home from work, he got so angry about me saying no, I didn’t want to invite a strange couple over that night, that he told me not to come home and had changed the locks by the time I got there. From there “we” participated in many, many events and parties, and, the worst part, regularly, very regularly, invited strangers into our home for sex. Can You Make a Narcissist Finally Commit? Because Narcissists are cheating slimeballs, and you and the new partner have every right to be concerned. Such as asking a friend for nudes and then trying to put us into a car together for a day, not telling me that he had done so. I took him back, because the discard was so brutal and he came back six weeks later, just wanting to make it right. How I wish I’d have read something like this 12 years ago. I always hated it. Once I was raped. If I didn’t want to participate, he would get angry and say, “the least you could do is sit there naked while you use your hand (edited).” Like I owed him to be submissive. His inability to respect boundaries blew up in our faces when it could’ve easily been prevented. Get this book. About 2 years after we broke up we reconnected when his niece & nephew came over for Christmas. Now check your email to confirm your spot in the mini-course and get your Beginner's Healing Toolkit now! If you’re ready to put yourself first and walk away from toxic love games, grab your ‘Beginner’s Healing Toolkit’ below! We won’t send you spam. I’d love for you to join us in The Essential Break Free Bootcamp. People are often more willing to leave a bad job than they are willing to leave a bad relationship. The weird part is he introduced my friends to her to try to convince her to sleep with him. Subscribe and get a special email series from Angie – packed with free gifts to help you heal and evolve! He said this was not true, she was not an issue, it was something he had to get out of his system. When he was in discard mode he called me fake poly, and I realized he was telling about himself.. he faked poly, and was just a garden variety cheater. Little did I know that in the meantime he was setting things up with his ‘ex’ and when I went to spend Christmas with my family he flew her here & she stayed at his house. I’m at my end with crying and feeling lost. I continue to follow you and read and re-read everything you have in hopes that soon I can be strong enough to finally let go so I can fully move on. Narcissists are generally non-monogamous. And still I struggle to cut the final ties. How do I know?? An older woman, she got bored because, well trauma bonding and lovebombing aside. With zero honesty from his side. It feels like a knife in my heart thinking about how I did participate, for years, before slowly backing out and eventually refusing to be a part of it anymore. On the other hand, if you’re being mocked because you feel uncomfortable and insecure or you’re being told how the narcissist and the other partner(s) don’t believe you’re ‘polyamory material’, that’s pure narcissistic manipulation. James, I felt heart broken for you when I read your words. A “ messy ” relationship because in my eyes, pulling away, not answering my texts & calls relationship. I ever will though, because the whole “ going back to his.! Is an intuitive healer and certified life coach, as they were Croatian Narcissistic Abuse coach... 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