4. Establish boundaries.
The fourth stage is you establish boundaries with this person, which means you make the decision to break away and implement no contact or low detached contact if you have children. You’ll realize that these cycles will never end and that any meaningful contact with this person is only going to result in further abuse, harm, and exploitation.
You’ll realize finally that there is no hope. Things are not ever going to change, or get better with this person. No matter what they tell you and you make the decision to go no contact or low detached contact.
5. Restoration.
This is a stage where you fix and replace what was broken, stolen, or destroyed, and you decide to live again. That includes tangible things as well as emotional psychological, and spiritual things that the narcissist has sucked out of you and stomped on.
This is a stage where you have worked through the majority of the shocked grief, anger, and feelings of wanting revenge. This is when you put the trauma behind you and you begin to choose your life and your happiness. Is a stage where you start to rebuild your life. Where you stop focusing on the narcissist and the pain and the trauma that they put you through. And your biggest priority becomes building a happy, wonderful, and successful life.
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