Finally, radical acceptance is critical because it allows you to stop framing your assessment of your life based on how things are going in this relationship. Once you accept that the unhealthy patterns in the relationship are a constant, you can shift your focus to you and the people and activities that matter to you. The day you stop waiting for the narcissistic situation to change is the day you take back the psychological resources and time that you expended on hope, avoidance, trying to make sense of it, and trying to change yourself to make it work.
