5. You’re going to need to set really firm boundaries with this person.
If you’re not sharing a child, or a home, or a financial situation, most likely then you can just break up and not ever need to talk to this person again, which is awesome, and very lucky for you. But there are people out there that have children with a narcissist, or owned a home together, or have other types of financial ties. So in that type of situation, you’re not necessarily going to never talk to that person again; you’re going to need to probably interact with them in the future.
So for this type of this scenario, and for you people out there that it pertains to, you’re going to need to set really firm boundaries with the narcissist. You’re going to need to let the narcissist person know what your new relationship is going to look like.
A book: Will I Ever Be Free of You?: How to Navigate a High-Conflict Divorce from a Narcissist and Heal Your Family
You’re going to need to say to them what you are willing to talk with them about and engage in, in terms of conversation, and what you’re not going to talk about and what you’re not going to engage in. And they’re going to want to push you, they’re going to want to engage in any type of a conversation that they can; make you mad to boost their ego, to win you back, whatever it is.
So you have to be ready for that, and you have to be able to say No! We’re only talking about this, this is how it’s going to be, and you’re going to need to learn to disengage and walk away if they try to go outside the scope of what your new relationship is going to look like.
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