WILL KARMA EVER BE PRESENT IN A NARC LIFE?

WILL KARMA EVER BE PRESENT IN A NARC LIFE?
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Often it is said: WHAT GOES AROUND...COMES AROUND! or "KARMA IS A BITCH!"
and I ask myself, does that apply to them too?
Do they ever get retributed for all their wrong doings to people who really loved them?
I find myself struggling sometimes with the fact that i practically left a very promessing career to support him emotionally in a moment of emotional need. I moved to another country to be with him...I left my job, family, friends and at the end I received a kick in the butt.
I was asked to leave our house, and shamely left that country with only my baggage and 13 boxes. He got the car , the apartment with everything in it..he now has a Good job, so I became useless.
He still sends some money...and I honestly take it because i'm still working on getting financially steady. But belive me..i wish i didn't need to.
So i'm here, starting over in everyway: emotionally, economically,professionally.
An he is better than ever..sometimes anger takes over me..sometimes..i just realize that all this bullshit had to happen so I can finally change my life and I know better things will come my way. In fact, I know now that being without him is better.
Sometimes I feel Pitty for his shallow heart, but then sometimes..i just feel i can't forgive.
So does karma really exist?

wiserwoman's picture

hope karma exists

Feeling so sad and used tonight (pms as well). Feel like I've completely wasted 15 years of the best years of my life on a loser and user. He doesn't care. He's fine. Nothing affects him.
I'm 39 now, three kids... I stay home while he takes off to Sydney for the weekend to play in his old band. Comes back all energised from his major supply hit - wants to see the kids and no doubt re-live all the great moments of the weekend.
While I....ran the kids to all their sporting events, had their friends over for sleepovers, took them to the movies, made them meals, washed their clothes, wrote 75 report cards, fed the bastard's dogs (even though he didn't even bother asking me too, but I knew otherwise they would have starved the entire weekend - and do you think I'll even get a thank you? don't even bother answering that - it's a rhetorical question)....
And for all that - I get "Mom, can we sleep at Dad's house tonight? We missed him SO much!!"
This bastard didn't even call his kids ONCE this weekend.

God, I hope karma exists. All I want is to see some retribution, I want to see him PAY. I want to see him HURT. I pray his hair will fall out.

I try to keep myself sane by telling myself "It's okay. It doesn't matter that people keep enabling him. It doesn't matter that he's a complete selfish git and still nothing bad ever happens to him. You wouldn't go back to him for all the money in world anyway, so what does it matter??"
I don't know - it still matters.

missym's picture

Don't get me wrong

Don't get me wrong Wiserwoman, I fully get where you are coming from. I know the endless exhaustion of doing right by our children and the often thanklessness of it. However, try to look at it this way...YOU GET TO BE WITH YOUR KIDS AND INFLUENCE THEM IN THE WAYS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THEM NOW AND IN THE FUTURE AS THEY GROW UP.

It is your honor to be the one who they will count on, lean on, know who is in their corner.

I think if you change your perspective just a little, you will be less focused on him and all his escapades that have NOTHING to do with parenting and never will.

wiserwoman's picture

yes, it's true

I know, I know. That's why I keep doing all the right things - because it's the right thing to do, but it also makes me feel good and feel happy for my children. I just hope that one day they will see it too.

dulcinea441's picture

Judging by the way they

Judging by the way they handle old age--i.e., with bitterness and rage--yes, they do eventually succumb to the terrible karma they have brought upon themselves!

onwithmylife's picture

I got my

chance to see the exnarc after 3 years out last fall and was i stunned, I had asked the universe /God to give me some closure and got it when I ran into him by accidnet at a store and was stunned to see how he had aged, looked so old and when I called his name out loud in the store, in shock, he turned his head with a total lack of expression, a blank, dumb, vacant look and I got my answer. Boy did he make a beeline out of that store a real fraidy cat............

lali876's picture

I have been NC until

I have been NC until today..but not beacuse I was looking foward to..but because he contacted me wanting to discuss some finaltial issues that he has.
The conversation was short...bottom line..he wants to file for divorce. He asked me very politely if I had given some thought to the issue of ending our marriage, I simply responded: "Do whatever you have to do, send me whatever you need me to sign. And of there is nothing else to talk about, I have to sing out."
So that was it!....I have been waiting for this moment to come ever since we split 6 months ago...I knew it was a matter of time..and even though I have been preparing myself for this hit of reality...I can't help myselaf to feel sad.
But if I knew this was coming...why does it still hurts so bad? w
I must say I've cryed. And even if I dont want him back..deep inside I guess it just reminded me the familiarity of the feelings I felt for the man I once loved.
I am sad because even if I dont want this man in my present I sometimes long for the man in my past..the sweet, loving and caring man I onced knew.
I am sad because it is hard to recognize that I was attached to a lie for so long that damaged life.
I am sad because...there are not "what ifs", or "maybe", or "he'll eventually come to his senses"...there is no second part in this episode.
I am sad to know that he finds it so easy to move on and I am still struggling to take this venom out of my system.
I am sooooo sad for him not being what I expected
I am sad for me not having the strenght to leave him before he could suck all the joy, dreams, and life out me....when I was stiil me.
I am piss at me for still having feelings for him.

no more an echo's picture

a life spent trying to hide from the truth

Dear Lali,

Of course you still have feelings for him. That's because you are HUMAN and not PD. Plus the wound is still raw for you.

Please don't envy him that he can 'easily move on' while you are still struggling. That just points to the fact that he is SERIOUSLY disordered and he was never really emotionally engaged in the relationship (nor can he be- ever!) It served only some sick needs of his. It was and never will be about you.

Sad for him. But hopefully FREEING for you. You can and will love again. And I've said this a hundred times but he is DOOMED to gaze at his reflection for all eternity. Narcs are extremely addicted people. For all their 'control' maneuvers, they NEVER get what they want and are the most UNHAPPY people on the planet.

Their addictions WILL consume them (IS consuming them) and they spend their lives trying to hide from the truth (of who they are) and out-run karma. Good luck, Narc-Boy!

Hands down, YOU'RE the winner here!

phantom adoration's picture

Please do not

sign anything until you seea lawyer and if possible file for divorce FIRST! This will give you strength becasue you will be taking charge and not allowing him this final control.
It will be hard and you will struggle but you hit first!
Do not give up anything.
Do you have a lawyer?

fallingfoward's picture

I believe karma...

hits their lives.... in fact I know one way it did for sure.... He lost one of best thing that could have happened in his life.......He lost me. LOL

Seriously, I wondered about that myself. The only way I can deal with it is by telling myself it not my concern.
I believe in karma, reaping what we sowed, I just won't be around to see it happen in his life.

hugs
ff

poslight's picture

Karma

I have had the distinct and satisfying experience of watching N go down the tubes. No matter what endeavor, he has been failing, another reason for the dependency on my $. I told N to try doing something kind for someone else for a change, but these people are unevolved. Yeah, he's failing at everything and it's been unreal to see. Nobody escapes karma. The last text I sent him was "hope we both get what we deserve" and he replied "thanks for that remark" and I refrained from replying "funny, when people tell me they hope I get what I deserve, I do not consider it an insult". You get what you give tenfold, everyone does. Maybe I'm just lucky I'm getting to witness it firsthand.

uncomfortablynumb's picture

unevolved...yes, good one.

unevolved...yes, good one.

shock and awe.some's picture

Tonight I saw him

For the first time in 6 months. I was very calm & professional to him but what a change! He lost so much weight that he looked haggered. Well beyond his 60+ years. I know he has been searching online almost daily for the past 8 months for a new "love". He is just a shadow of the man that I met so many years ago. Pitiful, old and alone.

phantom adoration's picture

Happy

for his haggerdness! Could be a new description for aging narcs, "His Haggerdness".
I will have to see my N in August, the frist time in 9 months...hoping to exude from every pore, calmness, class and intelligence with nar a glance in his direction.

shock and awe.some's picture

Thx for puttin a smile on me lil old face

His Haggardness. I love it. I hope it goes well for you. I knew he was coming to my house so I was prepared. But last night & today I am very sad. For me, for him, for us. I don't want him back, but seeing him triggered the feelings that I once held for him. He didn't disrespect me during our 2 yrs. together until the D & D. So my CD whispers to me that I wish it could have been different. Best of luck with your re-union.

phantom adoration's picture

Dear Friend

there will be triggers forever and we can only hope they are few and far between as life moves forward.
I think we call crash a little after an exchange, a sighting, a face to face. How could one not? Especially we who feel so deeply? I bet if you think back there was disprespect from His Haggerdness, you just did not accept it as such. I know I am remembering more and more of the negative and less and less of the fairy tale.
My re-union will be difficult because I truly loved this man. Difficult because I have a 17 year old daughter who has lost a parent and is left with a parent that is forever changed, not every change for the better. Difficult because I will be reminded of the other him, because the physical part will be the same...I will be reminded of what he felt like, smelled like.
Hell hath no fury like a womnen scorned. I am that woman and I have been living in hell for almost 8 months. But my hell will be short lived and his will be long term.

shock and awe.some's picture

I am no expert but....

I have 2 adult children from my XNH of 30+ years. I was alone in my parenting all those times for sports, school, activities, heartaches & crisis. My 20 yo girl has NC with her dad & my 30 yo son has very limited contact. They are loving & self confident kids. Your daughter is lucky to have you as a mom.You will be the rock that she leans on and a source of clarity, truth & comfort for her. God bless you & her.

no more an echo's picture

kiss a 'prince' and get a toad

Dear phantom adoration,

Are you reading my mind again? Seriously, now that I see Ex-Narc for who he REALLY IS, I see how I misinterpreted so many of the 'tells' (Things that should have tipped me off to the fact that he was an extreme NarcoPath!)

You said it brilliantly:

"I bet if you think back there was disrespect from His Haggerdness, you just did not accept it as such. I know I am remembering more and more of the negative and less and less of the fairy tale."

As time goes by, I understand how I projected my kindness, hope, joy, and good intentions on this impostor. I'm not chiding myself for that because love thinks the best of the other person. He's the DISORDERED one!

Life with the Narc is a twisted, fractured fairy tale. Where Alice never finds her way out of the rabbit hole. Kiss a 'prince' and get a toad.

I'm sorry for your situation- and sorry for your daughter, but I believe you WILL both survive this and be better, stronger and wiser for it.

shock and awe.some's picture

Hi echo

I have a list of actions on his part that I consider disrespectful. But as they were occurring, I blew them off b/c he treated me so much better than my XNH of 30 years. then when I cam here, I compared his actions to other peoples stories of abuse & thought .well he wasn't that cruel. This CD soothed my ego at one time. I truly lived by the fact that love overlooks faults. But thru therapy, I'm gaining understanding of what a real love needs to be. Still lots of work for me

phantom adoration's picture

The knowledge

that we all suffer regardless of the circumstances, our pains are so similair. I am thankful for the negatives floating out of the mist of fantasy that has enveloped us for so long. We wanted it so badly, we were able to suppress those little nagging thoughts, push them away and not give them substance. Fortunately that persisted and brought us to where we are now, some quivering in the face of this reality, others growing stronger each day, not trying to forget, that is not possible but working to put this emotional lesson in it's place, to take away the complete control it exerts,to take what we need from it and leave the rest behind. It is the hardest goal I have ever attempted to achieve. I still fail miserably some times, maybe for an hour or an evening or an entire day.
But truly, this Friday it will be eight months and I am better..did not think it would happen. Why would I beleive the others here, the mods?
I do not "love" him anymore, loathing is my "L" word now.
I admit a small part of me does pity him for suffering this disorder, not as much as I would pity a 3 legged dog.
I wrote a while back about short term vs long term. What we are suffering is short term as to what they will suffer forever.
Love is forgiving and love overlooks warts and bad smells and hair loss and dysfuntions of anatomical parts. But love is not enough to accept abuse in any form.
My greatest fear is teaching my daughter to be wary but not so wary she misses what love is supposed to be. To teach her love does not conquer all.
what he has taken from me does not compare to what he has cheated her of.
Yes, I am stronger but that is not an equal return return for my investment...I started with a full heart and have been left with a heart that has been fractured, peices I am slowing reassembling. It will work, but it will never be quite the same.

AkitaGirl's picture

Karma does come a knocking on their door

They know there is something wrong with them. They are always putting on an act. You would never know the rage they feel inside from the turns their lives take. While they put on the show, they are inwardly raging about being financially drained with child support payments, divorce settlements and the money they now need to spend of their own to keep their steady supply on the line. The enemies of women they rack up takes it's toll on how they live their life. Sometimes they pick the wrong people. Sometimes they accidentally let out little "tells" about their rage when they are caught and cast out on their own. Their problem is they always think they can find someone that will let them get away with their crap. It's part of their disorder and the fast path to the karma they know is coming their way. They know it's coming, it's just another game to them to try to avoid it and outbeat it. You have to step outside of the relationship and take a real look at their life and their future of repeating the cycle again and again.

goldie's picture

Yes

It all comes out in the wash.

God bless,
Goldie

no more an echo's picture

the most fundamental law of the universe

Dear Lali,

The most fundamental law of the universe is:

"Lo que haces, es lo que recibiras"

I read your story below and I am so sorry. You referenced prayer so I will quote for you Galatians 6:7

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

Karma. What goes around comes around. Everything that we do has repercussions. Notice that the Bible doesn't make exceptions. It doesn't say, "you reap what you sow- except if you are The Wonderful, Fantastical, Mr. Narc."

Too bad you may not be around to see it all happen but Narcs only THINK they are special enough that the rules don't apply to them or to mock God Himself!

Welcome to the forum- glad you found us!

p.s. Please don't be so hard on yourself over the forgiveness thing. You may need to work on all the pain and betrayal first before (or if) forgiveness comes. Don't hurry through the process and be kind and forgiving to yourself first! Stay strong!

Monarch's picture

No More An Echo

I love this reply. : )

no more an echo's picture

popcorn and a front row seat

Thanks, Monarch

But I would give just about ANYTHING to have some buttered popcorn and a FRONT ROW SEAT when KARMA starts raining on his head!!!!!!!

Don't we all deserve a little justice (and some drama slanted in our favor for a change?)

poslight's picture

Catholic church classifies Narcissism as evil

I happened upon a webpage from the Catholic church where they said Narcissism is evil because they use their free will to harm people and take advantage of them for self-gain.

lali876's picture

Thank YOU all

Thank you guys for all for your support...Im also learning from each of your experiences.
Thank You, "no more an echo"....I know I still have lots of work to do in forgiving myself and also in learning to love myself, it is hard when you've been trained to belive that you do not deserve anything good after all.
I'm currently starting a habit to be grateful for all I got in my present life.
Its hard , the pain still is not gone..but every day is less and less.
I already got a job..and but it still not enough to be economically independent yet....nonetheless..things are looking good..and I know i will be able to make it on my own soon, I guess I owe it to myself, to succeed..I know I am walking my path to it. One thing thing I've come to know about myself is that I'm strong...even after all this pain, the tears, all this bullshit I went thru.. I am strong..and I wont let him break my spirit!

AkitaGirl's picture

Karma does come a knocking on their door

They know there is something wrong with them. They are always putting on an act. You would never know the rage they feel inside from the turns their lives take. While they put on the show, they are inwardly raging about being financially drained with child support payments, divorce settlements and the money they now need to spend of their own to keep their steady supply on the line. The enemies of women they rack up takes it's toll on how they live their life. Sometimes they pick the wrong people. Sometimes they accidentally let out little "tells" about their rage when they are caught and cast out on their own. Their problem is they always think they can find someone that will let them get away with their crap. It's part of their disorder and the fast path to the karma they know is coming their way. They know it's coming, it's just another game to them to try to avoid it and outbeat it. You have to step outside of the relationship and take a real look at their life and their future of repeating the cycle again and again.

AkitaGirl's picture

Karma does come a knocking on their door

They know there is something wrong with them. They are always putting on an act. You would never know the rage they feel inside from the turns their lives take. While they put on the show, they are inwardly raging about being financially drained with child support payments, divorce settlements and the money they now need to spend of their own to keep their steady supply on the line. The enemies of women they rack up takes it's toll on how they live their life. Sometimes they pick the wrong people. Sometimes they accidentally let out little "tells" about their rage when they are caught and cast out on their own. Their problem is they always think they can find someone that will let them get away with their crap. It's part of their disorder and the fast path to the karma they know is coming their way. They know it's coming, it's just another game to them to try to avoid it and outbeat it. You have to step outside of the relationship and take a real look at their life and their future of repeating the cycle again and again.

AkitaGirl's picture

It does, they are just clueless about it

They know there is something wrong with them. They are always putting on an act. You would never know the rage they feel inside from the turns their lives take. While they put on the show, they are inwardly raging about being financially drained with child support payments, divorce settlements and the money they now need to spend of their own to keep their steady supply on the line. The enemies of women they rack up takes it's toll on how they live their life. Sometimes they accidentally let out little "tells" about their rage when they are caught and cast out on their own. Their problem is they always think they can find someone that will let them get away with their crap. It's part of their disorder and the fast path to the karma they know is coming their way. They know it's coming, it's just another game to them to try to avoid it and outbeat it. You have to step outside of the relationship and take a real look at their life and their future of repeating the cycle again and again.

NarcSurvivor3's picture

Well Said

This describes my ex exactly. You hit the nail on the head.

eyeswideopen35's picture

I too always ponder this

I too always ponder this question... But the more I read and learn about this disorder the more I believe that there karma is having to live with themselves everyday..

Imagine what a mindfield there heads must be in, with all the concussion and drama they create
Mine said he didnt have anyone else when we split cause he didn't have the head space!
Whislt I don't believe he didn't have other supply, I do believe what he said about not having enough head space...

I believe each cause has an effect, each action has a reaction, with all the wrong they do and pain they inflict I think karma does get them, in ways we would never see or know about... Perhaps the daily torment they live with inside there minds..

We know through spending time with them what incredible actors they are, we also know things are not as they appear behind closed doors, and what the outside see is very different...

I think it's like that for them daily in the heads... They act happy, fine, content, whatever cause the have to, if they didn't they would probably wither away and die...

But inside there mind and head I believe the suffer every minute of there misearble life...
They never get to experience real love, real compassion, real care...

People leave them, they have no stability in there life and they know when they die, there may be one or two people at there funeral, they will most like die, old bitter and alone!
That's some karma!

Just my opinion and thoughts of the subject!

onwithmylife's picture

eyeswideopen35

SO SO true,my exnarc in his late 60's by himself, he will be lucky if a few people show up at his funeral, old, lonely and bitter old man living inside his chaotic mind, staring at his empty shell of a human being.......outward of course!!

MeAgain's picture

My psychopath ex bf that is

My psychopath ex bf that is currently in prison named his youngest son Karma. Actually I don't know if he or his son's mother named the boy. Either way, ironic. He was always talking about how karma would eventually catch up with him. I don't know if it was part of his pity pleas or if he honestly believed it.

Rinalda's picture

Seems to get everything

Sometimes I just don't know if karma applies.
Right now I don't see it. I'm watching the ex-N play Russian roulette with his job and personal life, constantly playing with fire and getting away with it.

I don't see him paying for his abuses and lies--in fact, he's either bragging about his successes (he just went on a "business" trip with a colleague and used it for sex--he bragged that it's a tough job, but someone has to do it) or slyly tucking them under the table if they are socially unacceptabe (e.g. the fact that on that very trip, he was cheating on his girlfriend). He has been moving from one woman to another for at least two years and seems to be fooling everyone at work but me. He appears to get everything he wants.

But someone told me earlier in my recovery process that for these people to continually behave this way, something is clearly wrong in their lives. There is a big cavity at their core, a huge nothingness (sounds contradictory but is quite fitting). They are always running from the truth of their paltry lives, of their pathetic and empty and insignificant selves. In that sense, they are already paying.

I wish I could find the eloquent post on this board, from a while back, to share with everyone now. It strengthened me then.

uncomfortablynumb's picture

I think I've seen it!! after

I think I've seen it!! after my abrupt D&D my narc, within 2 months, got rejected by his first choice of OW, AND fired from his job!!! Posting on FB (publicly, we are not friends but i still creep him...bad, I know)how he was figuring out his rights being let go with "no notice, and no reason.."...uh...what?? Funny that it happened, and funny that he can only recognise an unfair discard when it happens to him...then when the girl blew him off, his update he had the nerve to post about how luck and karma were just not with him this week, and how he was slipping into a darkness and about to do some binge drinking, boo hoo the worst month of the year...
Fast Forward 5 months, the roommates who were SO much more important than I was, moved out..found 1 replacement, maybe priming the new OW to move in and help pay his mortgage that his jobless ass on employment insurance that must be running out in the next couple months can't afford!!!

OH YES KARMA GETS THEM...and will keep getting them because they fail to see the part where good karma brings back more good karma!!!

just makes me wonder what the hell did I do to get the bad karma of meeting and falling for what turned out to be HIS useless ass?????

LoserFree's picture

Well if it's true that "good

Well if it's true that "good karma brings back more good karma".....I have NOTHING to worry about anymore!!

After what I sacrificed that FREAK great things are about to happen for me!!

LoserFree

knighty2035's picture

haha

The worst of the NARCS think bad Karma follows them everytime they aren't getting enough supply. Rather than take responsibility they lay blame on whatever current woman is in their life. I have never seen such a group of "woe is me" Martyrs in my life. Haven't you ever noticed that they think its bad Karma if they get behind a slow person while driving. There entire life is bad karma according to the griping sniping snarky SOBs. It only appears that Karma doesn't get them.. but the truth is BAD Karma lives within them.!

sweetpeasarah's picture

Hahahaha

Knighty...griping,sniping snarky SOBs.....that has soooo made me laugh!!..
Agree with your post tho.
xx

brinamarie's picture

their karma is the fact that

their karma is the fact that they have to wake up with themselves.. every day. for the rest of their lonely, dark, miserable lives.

Renegade's picture

Yes, and that Karma is in the

Yes, and that Karma is in the form of a life sentence of being them.

The ex had two public meltdowns that I know of since I left him. That's not his M.O. - I guess someone's life went to shit and the grass wasn't greener after all? And he lost me for good in the bargain.

They are fools at their very core - every single last one of them.

lali876's picture

this is my story!

I sometimes feel like a bad person wishing that he would pay for everything that he did..I´m a very spiritual person..and usually not the kind to wish wrong to others, but i think it might be just normal to feel like this sometimes.

I immigrated to the US just after I graduated as an Architect in my native country in Central America. I had a chance to work with a firm in Miami through a working visa, I was kind of living the American dream..working hard but moving ahead in a promising career. I was a single mom back then of a 3 year old daughter. I was happy with what I had accomplished in my life so far and that’s when I met him.
He seem to be like fallen from heaven…a handsome and good hearted man, looking to settle down, with values and dreams like mine, he too was an inmigrant , an industrial engineer and graphic designer from Colombia –south america, and he too had the chance to work with a company in the US. We met; we fell in love and got married after a few months from dating. My daughter became his…they seem to have connected and nothing made me more happy than the fact that I have found my soul mate and my future seem really bright. Nothing could´t go wrong.
The first years we were really happy: we was really caring, loving, warm towards me and my daughter, who by then became OUR daughter. As time went by I started to see the red flags that we all deny to see. His relationship with his parents was extremily toxic for our marriage…they usually emotionally manipulated him over money..and his mom..whom now I don´t really doubt that she is also a narcissist started to show her true colors as well, but back then he was a victim of his parents abuse.
One day out of the blue, someone knocked on our door to let us know that he was being deported back to Colombia.His case had been denied. I was in shock!! To make story short…they took him and I did what I could to get him out, but it was useless. So by the end of that month (xmas) he was back in his country and he was debasted for us to be apart. I decided that we were a family and he the man I loved,and in no way was more important any material things over us being together again. So guess what? I quit my job..quit my visa.., shipped all our belongings , took my things and my daughter and took the first plain I could to Colombia.
First of all it was a strange country for me but I tried really hard to fit in, it was back then when he started to work 24/7, he had managed to keep his job with the company in US but working from Colombia as an outsourcing…it was the beginning of his withdrawing. At the beginning I thought it was just stress…but the times were longer and longer everytime. By then I started feeling lonely but tried to be supportive. That year I got pregnant and had a miscarriage by the 6th week. It was then that I started to see the changes more and more often. I never received his emotional support during all the grieving, he pretended like nothing happened..and was really cold towards my suffering. I felt more lonely than ever and got in to a deep depression which was the final struck to see his real true self. By then him I was submitted to the ignoring treatment most of the time. I was treated like if I was a retared none able to do anything right…I was frustrated because I could not get a job nor even received any real interest from his part to help me get one or help me get on track in the new place with the new people,since I was a foreign in that country. It was all about him by then..he bragged about the good job he had..the fact that he could travel to other countries for business trips..and all the superficial bullshit that people in his world worships. I was became his shadow, the trophy wife..It was mostly only in front of other people that he treated me in a good way or talked to me, he loved prentending we were OK…by then I was becoming really ill..mentally and physically.
When I started to rebel…he confused me acting thoughtful again…buying us some fancy vacation trip, or some kind of gift or just acting like he did in the beginning warm and caring , doing things for me like cooking, taking me out for a couple of days and then back to the same shit….the isolation of the fucking IGNORING TREATMENT.
I was really low in my depression..read like crazy trying to figure out to to fix things..the more I tried the more down I felt.We went to thepary..and he managed to convince the therapist that everything was only because of my depression, he was fine..our marriage was fine. I was seen things. So was prescribed some medications and It was then like something snapped and realized that I needed to helpmyself..I did snapped and realized that I needed to helpmyself..I did not take medications but started a EDM treatment which helped me a lot. So I started to feel better…and he started to act full time without pretending. He truly transformed. He started to do things intentionally to hurt me…He had an affair..I was debastated. He then put the mask on for a while..and tryied to turn things around. He asked me for sometime alone..he needed me to travel to give each other sometime off to see if we could “work in our marriage”. Gosh I feel so stupid now!! He thought me in to getting back to my country with my daughter, while we figured a way to maybe settle there. “He needed time to think”. I needed so much to belive him.
So I left with my daughter and with only a few things….meantime…he started to withdraw again…and I suffered so much expecting to see what he promessed. It was like he threw a bone once in a while to keep me waiting. Parallel to this he was always kind and loving to my daughter..which made me more stuck to the idea that he was really being honest, nonetheless , he called her..talked to her, while ignoring me.
He then got in a fight with his boss over a raise…and ended up quitting out of pride. He then got back to talking to me all kind and concerned as always…he swore that as soon as he got financially better he would take his things and move to with us to my country (where I am now).
I must say that he always remained economically responsible sending us money. He was really depressed , he like me,was not able to find a good job…or not the type of Ego booster job that he had. After 7 months of giving him emotional support , being there for him like always…he finally got his job back and flew to Nicaragua to see us.
Supposedly to plan our new life together, he promised the fairy tale ending, I thought God had listened to my prayers..He spent a month here and promised to be back in 3months after he had sold our things and gathered the money for us to start a new beginning here.
So he left..and I waited..and he started the withdraw again after only 2 months..and to my surprised only weeks from the date when he supposedly was to be here… He even didn’t have the balls to be honest..I was the one who confronted him to set the record straight…and that pissed him off, He dumped me over the phone without any remorse..he was a complete asshole..and acted like he didn’t give a shit.
Days after I begged, he anwer by saying some stupid bullshit about he loving me so much..but he could not be happy If he moved back with us, for he couldn’t risk no being able to provide for us. Therefore he rather sacrifice himself staying away from us. He ended the email by saying: Im sorry that im causing you all of this pain, I hate myself for it. I love you both with the bottom of my heart.
And So…I begged again! Begged him to reconsider..asking him for forgiveness if I ever didn’t understood him enough…or made him feel loved enough…
I called, and guess what I received the most insensitive response ever..he was cruel…and made it very clear that he no longer wanted anything with me..he wanted to see other people.he really broke my heart even deeper!
The next day..I receive an aim in my bb from him acting like if nothing had happened….which I did not answer..i took the courage that I didn’ have for the last torturing 2 years and deleted him..from every where..and it was painful but decided to end up with at least some dignity if I still had some..and went No contact since then.
Since then I have not talked to him at all..i decided he could have all the things..for I do not care to fight for it..i do not want to have any contact with him what so ever.
Since then..he still cares for my daughter..calls her..talks to her , I have allowed this since to my daughter hi is really her dad..she truly loves him..and it would break my heart to break hers.He remains sending money every month…which I take only because I need to by the moment…but trust me I wish I didn’t at all. If in any case he needs to address me regarding any money issue, I only allow it by email..and my responses are YES, NO or ok. That’s all.
He has another woman now..in fact he dumped me beacuse of her..she is the typical barbie steriotype. He got himself a new look..a new car..a raise..travels..etc. So now by now can you can imagine why I ask about karma!
I probably have been brave at least at the end..but I must confess that I have struggle everyday to break my addiction and codependency. I have seen the darkest days of my life…cried myself to sleep like a little girl…and fight the blame that he made me believe I had in all of this. I stared to looked for answers…trying to soothe my heart..and I found this website which has been a real blessing!
Thank You all for your support…I truly hope we all heal and be happy someday soon…God bless You all.

missym's picture

If I could get rid of him in

If I could get rid of him in my d12's life - I would.

He is her bio father, and she is very attached to him. But, he has ALREADY replaced her for other affections,....with both another woman, and her two small daughters. Can you IMAGINE how hard that is for my daughter?

She goes along because she has no choice and she tries and tries every single week to give him another chance to love her. Alas, he cannot, and he places her in the middle of all this every SINGLE week. She no longer gets time with him, and he has shown her that he does not place her as a priority - and I know...he never will.

Please think carefully about the dangers to her self esteem over time. Girls learn what they want from men often from their fathers. Is this the role model you would want.

If mine would go away, it would be the happiest day of my life.

Jelickuk's picture

I'm in same situation missym.

I'm in same situation missym. he is causing such harm to his children but blames everyone else....so hard for the children

missym's picture

Yup, just today I sent him an

Yup, just today I sent him an email (I NEVER initiate emails), but with d12's end of school year events starting this week, I "requested" that he attend these events alone and allow daughter to celebrate her achievements without burdons of OW, her small daughters, and Exnarch pumped up ego....

He "agreed" and said he would attend alone. But, he just had to say that he is trying to "balance" his own life and "moving forward" with daughter's need to have him alone.....

fucking prick. As if --- oh fuck it...you all know the argument....Why he cannot make her his first priority is the absolute essence of narcisssim in the first place.

UGH.

phantom adoration's picture

Daughters

are especially vulnerable tot he venom of their N fathers.
My daughter is 17 so the time he is olbigated to be Daddy is coming to an end.
Fortunatley his very actions these past several months have revealed to her a cruel, selfish, manipulative man. One she now refuses to talk with or see. Not just for his treatment of me but for the way he has treated her. He trys, via email, text, no more phone calls. She simply does not want him in her life, says she feels so much better and less stress for going NC, which she has done but does not know she's doing.He is doing it all on his own, no need for me to aid or abeit the situation.
Of course he blames this all on me....says my NC is a bad example for her and we should set an example for her how two adults can remain friends, communicate and settle matters. HUH? Set an example, does that mean letting her read the email you sent me ending our 22 year relationship? does that include your long term affair with a married women, or your dalliance on a cruise with another since the married one could not go? Friends?
Communicate?
Yeah I do communicate, through my lawyers and impure thoughts.
All too soon he will give up on her, thinking he has done everything he could to have a relationship. He has even told her she needs him in her life and she should not walk away from him. OMG, as in oh my, you do think you are a God. I will never encourage a relationship with him. She is my responsibility and I take the role seriously. I will not allow her self assurance to be threatened by this disorder.I am my own best example of what can happen when self esteem is non existant.

Jelickuk's picture

omg phantom adoration, we

omg phantom adoration, we were married to same man.

My daughter is 13 and he has behaved atrociously towards her and blames me being nc for her refusing to see him. he cant believe that she doesnt want to see him because of his own nasty actions

bettawoman's picture

WOW

I have been dealing with my ex N using my daughter as a pawn in his sick twisted games... anyway your comment.."My daughter is 13 and he has behaved atrociously towards her and blames me being nc for her refusing to see him. he cant believe that she doesnt want to see him because of his own nasty actions" EXACTLY described what I said not 6 hours ago. My daughter is much younger , 3, but she can see through his crap already. Such unfortunate circumstances but I'm glad to know that someone understands me and knows what I am talking about.

phantom adoration's picture

An N simply can't

fathom why their child would not want them in their life...nor could they ever, ever accept the child, 3, 13 or 17 would not want to see them. Of course it is your fault,m everything is your fault. Remember, no accountability.
Think of the tried and true, if you put your hand on a hot burner it will hurt...this is not much different is it? A child has in inate sense of what causes pain and that is how they learn not to do something that hurts over and over again.
In my opinion no good will come of a long term relationship with a narc parent, I know, I am living proof of the damage wrought upon the child of a narc. If you took a random poll on this forum of those of us that have suffered this misfortune I think you'd be shocked. I will not allow it to happen, period!
They are not Father's...a child is only an ornament and when the shine wears off the child will be discarded and the "Father" will lament the passing with "I did all I could do"....yada, yada, yada.

phantom adoration's picture

You're in the right

place to get support while on the journey to recovery.
I would continue to take as much from him as you can get.
His relationship with your daughter concerns me, because he is a narc. A healthy relationship can not come from him, ever. She is young so you may consider cutting the emotional connection now as it will be more diffiuclt later andyou wil have more explaining to do. Would be better to have no father then a narc father. He will break her heart. she will be replaced in his affections by another, it is only a mtter of time. She is simply a source for him. You are not breaking her heart, you are taking control and looking at her best interests.
You will only heal by NC...both of you, being physically apart works to your advantage.
Don't worry about Karma, you can't predict, control or likely ever witness it. You can however contribute to it by going NC for you and your daughter. Do not allow him into her life, she will survive and his contacting her keeps you in his snare...
I think you need to take take a hard look at your situation and determine your motives, your end game

Jelickuk's picture

There is a contact agreement

There is a contact agreement in place through the courts for my children. My 11 year old son sees him regularly and is being messed up. My 13 year old refuses to see him.

I would prefer to cut all contact but he presents as very together and genuine. No court in this country would stop access.

I broke contact for half an hour after months of nc and the consequences were not good. I was emotionally and physically ill. I am nc again and a lesson learnt.

It would be easier if he would just go away.