Have you ever had that experience when the narcissistic person promises to change, or offers you that thing you wanted—whether it’s to get married, move to a certain place, have children, go on vacation, repay you money, get into therapy, etc.—to keep you in the relationship longer, and then it never happens or the goalposts keep moving? Future faking is a particularly twisted element of narcissistic abuse. Narcissistic people know what you want, so they offer it to you as a manipulation to draw you back in and keep you on the hook. Most future-faked promises are tied to some
