When a Sociopath Becomes Your Dream, Your Nightmare, & Your Addiction
The magnetism is almost too intense to turn away from.
We spend our youth learning about stranger danger, about unjust governments, about laws and their consequences, about the dangers of drugs.
But the intimate danger that so many of us face goes completely unspoken: that of the malignant narcissist.
Welcome to the cultural gaslight of adulthood, a hall of funny mirrors you’ll be lucky to survive, much less see clearly in.
One danger that leads to the demise of so many — either through murder, suicide, or psychological collapse — is the danger of earnestly loving someone who is completely emotionally unavailable.
The term emotionally unavailable is thrown out a lot, and I think many people mistake it as someone who is emotionally guarded or avoidant, but that’s not what it really is.