More commonly, you may also flee by distancing or dissociating from your emotions or from yourself while in the relationship (feeling a more narrow range of emotion, no longer expressing needs, feeling like you are watching this relationship happen to you without really being connected to it, numbing yourself through work, food, or alcohol). You may also mentally check out when the narcissistic person starts in on you. Ultimately over time, you not only start detaching from your sense of “being” in the world but also become disengaged from other healthier relationships, get easily distracted,
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