PRETENDER:

actor, charlatan, deceiver, fake, faker, fraud, hypocrite, imitator, impostor, phony

 

Please don't lie to someone who trusts you, someone you have asked to trust you, asked to love and believe in you.  Don't lie to someone who holds and heals you.  Don't use them and strip their goodness away.  They will never be the same.

More Stories to Come

her affair

little league      the baseball bat      long walk past neighbors      

hawaii       chores         california  

I don't have any friends    

three's a crowd          lesbians  

lance to the heart      

no coaching allowed

         I'm sick of golf        buddha    

the sky is falling      walking in the rain

grocery money         fantasy life            

mother, father, sister    

  I'll pick you up   what's your sign  

tired since i met you      

you're the only one    

hey, how you doing              

 

 

One Woman's Truth

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?  The world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser

 

Each of us has a truth of our own buried deep inside, a boundless sea of thought, feeling, emotion, upon which our outward persona sails, dark and stormy, calm and flowing, these are the currents that give us life. We humans are as fragile as any ship ever built and exposing our inner selves is not something we do naturally, an evolutional safety. Once or twice in a life time we may meet someone we feel safe enough with to open our harbor gates and let our true selves flow. It is both a thrilling and frightening voyage, and when it happens, changes us forever.

Being betrayed by someone you trust, changes you even more.

A story of betrayal is never just one story for betrayals don't come that way, they develop from a long legacy of betrayals. The person capable of betraying is incapable of certain thoughts and emotions, and operates from a deficit of character, predictably scripted by a scarcity of human bonding, repeated lacks of nurturing and acceptance.

When our reality has been shattered, we lose all faith and belief in ourselves, in life and the world around us. The one thing we all have, that no one can ever take away from us, is our truth.


 

 

Sunday
Nov062011

A True Narcissist "will not apologize for anything"

The man who destroyed my life, to quote in writing, "will not apologize for anything."  He wasted years of my life, lied to me every day, used me every day for any and everything he could and "will not apologize for anything."

He broke every promise, vow, and agreement we had and "will not apologize for anything."

When his lies began to unravel he sadistically manipulated and psychologically tortured me, telling me, while holding me in his arms, to trust him, and "will not apologize for anything."

He duped me out of thousands of dollars, and instead of paying it and being done with it, he pays an attorney to threaten and attack me, and "will not apologize for anything."

He spent years convincing me of his love, persuaded me to end my marriage so that we could be married and build a life together - and in one minute, without a conversation, that is correct, without a single conversation, evidently changed his mind - and "will not apologize for anything."

He spent years convincing me of how miserable his marriage was, how mean and unstable his wife was, how he had been depressed for years and turned into a shell of a man.

He told me every day how I had saved him, in every way a person can be saved.  He cried in my arms, often, tears of sadness and tears of joy. And then he acted as if none of it ever happened, literally became a jekyll/hyde in every terrifying sense, and "will not apologize for anything."

Lest you think it was just one unfortunate mistake, one small misunderstanding - you should know that I was just one in a long line of women that began the first week of his marriage - which he proudly told me and others.

What kind of person refuses to apologize after betraying someone and destroying their life? Refuses to acknowledge the truth? Refuses to be accountable for his actions and agreements?

This is a portrait of a dangerous man, a man who is incapable of empathy - or remorse, a man without character - or conscience. A true narcissist. I never really understood that word or the disorder. There are signs though, all men who abuse women this way are strikingly similar and predictable. But they pull it off because they are masters of disguise and deceit. 

The sad truth is that no matter how smart, or strong, or good, or kind you are, you can still be preyed upon and fooled by damaged individuals, with no true love or caring in their heart.

I hope this look behind the truth will spare even one person from the suffering that my family, friends and I have experienced.

 

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