Explaining - You find yourself explaining yourself why you believe what you believe and explaining  basic human emotions how they work, what they are such as empathy, kindness, human dignities.  I concluded with a person I was engaged with  they just didn't use their skills with me and I could see, sense and felt it was just with me, with everyone else they were this kind, empathic, generous person.  So I concluded it was me that was all wrong this was the cause on my cognitive dissonance, my self-doubting and me questioning my sanity, worth and human value.  Its very subtle because the mind doesn't process what the eyes and ears can see and hear!  I  used to think am I going out of my mind?  Questioning if I couldn't be understood by this significant person in my life I must be all wrong, stupid and defective.  Being understood by this significant person to me was crucial to my well-being at the time HE KNEW THIS and used it against me time and time again.  How wrong could I have been!  Eventually I discovered I didn't need to be understood by anyone  else but for me, 'just me' to understand myself..  We become our own worst enemy and they feed  us with all this and more so we stay this way because it suits their  poisonous agenda, that  of us being there when they want  and all our energy being used for them. 

 

Dogma -- In  the beginning they take and use all your values, beliefs, and personal moral qualities to love bomb and idolised us  and when it suits  turn all these against us  and tell us  it's not good to ˜know' when we know we are closed!  He will withdraw all he said to you and twist your values, belief's and 'truths' and tell you they are absolutes and 'dogma' you shouldn't think in this way 'the world according to ………. I heard  several times.  BUT we all live in the world according to our own values, beliefs and personal moral qualities if we didn't we would all live in chaos with no real structure or qualities to our living!  See the resemblance to the unhealthy  world they living in since we have values, beliefs and personal moral qualities we have some sort of stability and foundation from which to reach out into the world, explore, review, reflect, develop and grow.  This was built when we were toddlers in the attachment phase of our development.  So they 'level' the playing field but he's not raising up to your level he's bringing you down to his at every opportunity  available. 

 

Eternal Victim -  The unhealthy person will always be the victim of every argument, every critic, and every life event which is shared with others, their pain, uncomfortableness their upset will be sadder, more painful and more traumatic then any one else involved.   Not you or anyone else will be the victim it doesn't matter you may have experienced and/or shared in the same trauma as them their experience however will be worse then yours.  It won't matter that they cheat, lie, twist and turn, it will be them who they see as the victim especially if you point out any of their bad behaviour at the same time like 'not caring' They may say 'well at least I didn't' or 'well its been said  what we don't like in ourselves we often see in another, so glad you are able to see the negative in yourself as well as the good'.  Meaning that you are the one projecting onto them.  They are aiming to make you believe it is you and not them by blaming you rather than owning the bad behaviour they are very good at turning things round onto you so they exonerate themselves at all times.  They are not unhealthy  you are in their world! Usually because you want something from  them, like love, affection and emotional availability.  If all else fails they will communicate using their real and genuine traumas in their life so you will 'feel sorry' for them remember it's all about them not you, so they are the real and only victims in life.  No one is as traumatised as them no one else who has suffered a trauma is on the same level of traumatisation as they are, they believe they are hurt the most and no one can feel as hurt as them!

 

Competition -  A favourite for them because they  need to be right at all times, they needs to win at all times otherwise they can't be right!  They are in perpetual competition in all area's of their living.  They  will accuse you of what they are actually doing to you, seeing someone else, having sex with someone else, having an affair, telling you, you are the one who is jealous of them, you are a liar, you are the one who is mistaken, mad, crazy, confused, an idiot, unintelligent, fat.  They are not bashful they will use everything they can think of to provoke a reaction from you, so you can then be blamed.  Using  your past history and tell you, you're the one who doesn't like men, when he's a Misogynist (hater of woman)   and you're the one who is argumentative.  They will be cool, calm and collected but patronising and condescending.  Focus and remember it's perfectly normal to react defensively when you are being accused of something,  being judged or called names; you've not even thought of let alone done.  THEY KNOW THIS and they initiate the argument so they can suck up our misery and pain and you will be the only one apologising and making promises to change, make amends.  While he is gaining great pleasure from all your efforts because your attention is on him not you, he uses these conversations like a competition and one he must win at all costs.  He does win because he's set you up to fail every time and him to win!  Its very clever when you sit and think about it like a clockwork precise machine with all pistons firing at the same time.   But at the same time it is very painful for the receiver. 

 

Shirk responsibility​ - they cannot take responsibility for anything they say or do.  It will always be our fault, the neighbors, the children’s, the work colleague the cat or the dog, anybody but themselves.  It will be our fault we are hurt by them because we are not 'clever' enough to ‘see' them for what they actually are, therefore we will have put our self in this position and left our self open to being hurt by them.  As such the unhealthy one  can't be blamed can they it’s not their responsibility for what we  do is it!  They will more than likely say something along the lines of "how are you going to choose to feel today" the ultimate arrogance and contempt of us since no one actually chooses how they are going to feel, we can 'choose' how we are going to 'respond' to our feelings but feeling are innate and spontaneous in my experience.   We  on the other hand are so busy thinking to our self I don't 'chose' how I'm going to feel, so attention is taken away once again from them as we  feel confused, self-doubting and upset, because no one does actually choose their feelings,   Feelings are evoked by a stimulus which thy are very happy to provide and blame us  when they have deliberately hurt us.  They’ll tell us; you shouldn’t feel that way or need for that matter, they imply our needs are wrong and in all cases our needs will be subservient to theirs.   Remember in this unhealthy process and way of thinking   love is not a feeling which is open to them so they have no concept of what loving someone is, however they do know how to hurt, manipulate and cause confusion they are masters at it, because they mirror love and affection they are the greatest pretenders.   We can however choose what to do with our feelings once evoked, with time and effort we can become emotionally intelligent, make informed decision and choices for ourselves. 

 

They Lie -  When do you know when they lying?  Every time they open their mouths.  Full stop.

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Don't believe a word they say because it will always be a lie.

 

Acceptance - The thing he wants and craves the most in his world is to be accepted for who he is and all his behaviour will reflect this.  To you or I his behaviour is as opposite as a person can get to being accepted, deeply accepted by another because all he does is creates drama, upset and pain for others which drives them further and further away from him or her.  Once we  have discovered we  are in love with someone who uses a lot of these behaviours in their interacting with us, we can choose to stop playing their games, stop feeding their  ego with our whole self and get some distance between us, find our own answers to what made us stay, heal, grow and develop. Build our self-esteem, confidence, resiliency and self-efficacy.  Once we have regained our balance and autonomy practice congruence with our self, we will be able to offer the person we thought we  loved, the acceptance they so crave with depth empathy, compassion and real love.  The sad thing is though unless they too have healed they won't want it or you still because you will now  be an independent and strong woman or man  the opposite of what he, she needs to feed their ego.  So you will become boring to them like a dead mouse and be seen as exiting as a grey rock  so they will pass us  over for someone who is more enthralling .......       just like we  used to be in the beginning!

 

 Offer and hold your love, empathy and compassion anyway for them as you wish them well on their life journey.  As  you travel forward onto your Path Of Peace and find the love you also have always craved.  Its out there! 

 

Yet perhaps you've always had it all along and didn't know!!!!!!!  

 

To your magnificent mental and emotional wealth always