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5 Steps to Silence the Narcissist You Live with Forever

No need to run away or leave the country. Take your life back on your own terms.

Honor Payne
5 min readMay 20, 2024
Game Over
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We’ve all had to deal with toxic narcissists, but what if the narcissist in your life is in your house and you can’t get away from them because of family, marriage or financial reasons?

Well I’m going to be sharing with you the five steps to retiring the narcissist in your life early.

Cut Them Off Emotionally

The first thing you need to do to get the ball rolling towards your freedom is to cut the narcissist off emotionally.

What this means is that you have severed the trauma bond, all loyalty to them, and most importantly do not care. It’s so important that you don’t stay mad, don’t hate and don’t regret of feel mad at yourself.

Narcissists can actually sense when and if you’re faking not caring about them at all, but they equally sense when you mean it and it destroys them.

Try to bring about a feeling of total impartiality towards them. This is something that really helped me to deal with them.

I don’t love and I don’t hate they just exist in my space, that’s it.

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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