How to deal with feeling sorry for him?

How to deal with feeling sorry for him?
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Great sunny afternoon...I went out with a friend to eat something...great food...the air was smelling so fresh...and then I hear this song,one of what used to be our songs.Many of his songs were about being empty inside,no soul,needing serenity,a place to hide,bring me back to life etc.And hearing that song brought him back on my mind in an intense way,instantly.And I remembered his awful childhood,how his mom left him with grandma and how he told me he learned to be two-faced because he had to in order to survive there.And I suddenly started feeling sorry for him,for not having a mom and a normal childhood.I felt like crying for his pain.I felt like writing him and tell him Im sorry he had to go through all that,it wasnt his fault.I missed him deeply all of a sudden.Of course I didnt break NC,after all the lies he told me and the cheating...my dignity just wont let me,its the only thing I got left.Have you experienced this?

midnight7's picture

Ns suffer a core trauma so

Ns suffer a core trauma so early their brains are wired up differently from ours. They can never be healed. Ns cannot love, care for or demonstrate conern - they mimic emotions to abuse people. Ns select victims, exploit their vulnerability, and then abuse, torture, suck the life out of this person to fill their empty shells which can never be filled. Ns 'steal' love, time, energy, care, attention, money until we are completely depleted - sometimes homeless, destitute. Ns are pathological and compulsive liars from the minute they wake their agenda is to manipulate and control to gain attention - they leave us spiritually, emotionally, physically drained and almost insane. They are pompous, arrogant, grandiose, selfish, self-seeking, do not care what happens to anyone and feel entitled to anything and anyone they like regardless of the consequences. Ns are promiscuous, unfaithful, pleasure seeking, porn addicted, sexual deviants. Ns are always emotionally abusive often physically abusive. Ns exploit any source, they are predators, parasites and they never show remorse because to them we are nothing, we are inferior and deserve all we get. When one source dries up they move on immediately to the next, or have it already secured and waiting, and only look back when ready to exploit again. Ns are psychopaths, sub-human, automatons, empty machines on seek and destroy supply mode until the day this single cell monster dies. There is nothing to love here, nothing to feel pity for, nothing to feel sorry for. One cannot love, care for or feel sorry for evil.

stuckinthecupboard's picture

like your comments

I am going to keep reading them ....I feel low today as I miss the nice man that lured me in . I find i keep thinking i have got him all wrong and i want to talk to him !!! He cheated on me lied to me and told me if i went to my gym instead of wanting to be with him then i was worthless and told me to F off . i have had NC but why am i feeling so sad . What is wrong with me and how do i change it . I wanted it all to be so perfect and it became apparent that it will never be like that . Would appreciate some help please?! xx

cristina's picture

In no way do I make excuses

In no way do I make excuses for him or love evil.I just ment I felt sorry because he didnt have a chance to a normal childhood,it seemed unfair to me.Funny thing is he kept saying he is better than his mom/family but there he is doing the exact things she did,leaving people that love him behind,cold blooded like that,without looking back.

midnight7's picture

Dear cristina, we can truly

Dear cristina, we can truly feel sorry for people who are aware of their situation in the sense they feel real, true pain, they have endured loss, struggled to cope and process all of their experiences. Ns do not feel this - the xN I was with did not care what his mother had done to him, he was rather smug that he was not troubled by all the emotional crap that those 'pathetic little normal' people got stuck with - he felt superior - we were all rather sad for feeling, caring. This is partly what I was trying to say - Ns never feel sorry for themselves though they might sound like they do all the time - this is to gain attention - the pity party routine works for them every time as we empathize, sympathize and reach out - the N could care less and will manipulate people any way the are able to - another reason not to feel anything for them.

cristina's picture

I didnt think about it like

I didnt think about it like this.Thank you for making me look at this from another angle.And you are absolutely right,he knew he was broken(his words)but he didnt want to do anything about it.

sweetpeasarah's picture

I agree with what

your saying midnght, but if they have a mental disorder, then that is an illness surely. Im in no way condoning what they do, but i wonder, can they help acting the way they do?
There are so many different level's of mental illness.
xx

midnight7's picture

Dear Sweetpeasarah,

Ns/psychopaths do not have a mental illness - many mental illnesses may be alleviated with medication/many conditions may be helped with therapy - nothing at all can help these people. N/psychopaths are badly wired in the brain - they do not think/act like us. Thomas Sheridan and many other experts now class psychopaths as a sub-species - they are not even human like we are. These people know what they do - even if they are not self-aware - they know the destruction they cause, they know they do not act like others. Today's society has us being PC regarding everything - this is much like religion - an opiate for the masses, which dulls the senses and prevents people from thinking clearly - we have to think for ourselves - even if we think the opposite from the sheep/herd and we must act to prevent further damage to ourselves and others. Ns don't pull the legs off insects they pull the legs off human beings and watch us squirm and think nothing of it.

sweetpeasarah's picture

Hmmm

My ex toad, had similar upbringing, he didnt talk about it much and i could see it was painful. I know his mum and dad.. dad a raging alcholic and narc, mother very controlling. Toad went to live with his Grandmother too.His dad cheated on his mum throughout their marriage, and strangly toad despised his dad for that yet has lived his life a carbon copy of his dad's!!
Although i agree with other comments here, that there is a choice in how they behave as adults, but if they are truely disordered i believe that in some ways they cant help how they lead their lives. I can remember many times toad would say to me, that he hated being dependant on alchol and cannibis, hated how he had treated his children, and wished that his life had been different. But he is so dependant now he will never change. Sober times for him were a nightmare..i could see that 'reality' freaked him out.
Do i feel sorry for him? In some ways yes, in the sense that he did have his nice genuine caring moments, but they frightened him, and that is very sad. Another time another world he could have really been the man he pretended to be in the beginning.
Too late now.
x

Dee30's picture

I wrote about this not too long ago

I felt sorry for him too. He had an alcoholic father and controlling mother. But the other ladies are right. That doesn't give him the right to abuse. I was abused also so were many of us in our family but I learned that I did not want to treat anyone the way I was treated growing up. He had that choice too. The awful childhood does not excuse abuse. I feel for the inner pain he must suffer but that doesn't mean treating others like crap. It's a choice. If he chooses to be sadistic he has to be held accountable.

Deidre99's picture

Having a bad childhood is a

Having a bad childhood is a sad thing...but doesn't give someone license to abuse others. I would pray for him and stay NC.

uncomfortablynumb's picture

Especially after having met

Especially after having met his parents and imagining the confused little kids he and his brother must have been growing up, I feel sad for his inner child...and the fact that he is unable to see beyond the tunnel vision of his upbringing to be able to observe the world outside and be aware of there being a difference. And I acknowledge that for both him and and his brother, it's such a waste, and think its really a shame. But after getting the brunt of his issues and feeling my own pain as well as the pain he is unable to feel, it's hard to feel to sorry for him now..he couldn't control his childhood, but now as an adult he brings everything on himself...probably the lack of responsibility is reinforced still by his mommy...it makes me very mad at his parents for messing up a perfectly good human being who could have had a soul and been successful at whatever he wanted to do...

Janie53's picture

Cristina

No one can tell you or anyone else how to feel. Yes, sad childhood, but that doesn't mean you need to be his scapegoat for abuse. You own your feelings and you owe it to yourself to stay true to you!

Janie

Layla's picture

Lots of people have awful childhoods and don't abuse........

..........lie and cheat. Heck, most of us here had crappy childhoods and every one of us is a victim of these "things". Boo-hoo-hoo....mommy left me with grandma and that's why I cheated! Boo-hoo-hoo.........

YOU feel bad because YOU have empathy. HE mimics human emotion of sadness to provoke sympathy from YOU because HE is a game player and manipulator and sure as shit wasn't crying about mommy leaving him with grandma when his D*&k was in another woman while he was in a relationship with YOU.

Worry about YOU feeling better because I can assure you, he doesn't "feel" bad about anything. In fact, he doesn't feel at all.

love~ Layla

cristina's picture

You are so right,many of us

You are so right,many of us had crappy childhoods but we dont act like them,on the contrary.Which makes me wonder why some people with abusive pasts stay good and others turn into Ns...

Layla's picture

Dearest Cristina....

Abused and/or neglected girls usually are vulnerable to becoming abused women and abused and/or neglected boys tend to become abusive men.

This is one of the reasons why we need to deal with our own core issues so we do not go on to another abusive relationship.

love~ Layla

Janie53's picture

Layla

Exactly Layla! No contact is just the very first step in this long but necessary journey.
Stay true!

Love Janie

Snowflake's picture

I think you have to stop the feeling sorry

for self protection because for me it makes it easier for him to hoover.

He was bullied like I was..maybe he just said it to make me feel like he understood..but whether he was/wasnt I didnt use my shit as an excuse to treat him like a twat.

The bit I try and focus on now..because last time I broke NC was because I felt sorry for him and sorry with some of the things I said..sometimes he brought out the worst in me... is that HE ENJOYED hurting me.

It wasnt so much a disregard ie being selfish and not thinking..it was planned hurt and when I told him it hurt he stuck the needles in more..

I was his little toy voodoo doll.