How to Tell Whether the Narcissist Is Coming Back with 100% Accuracy

Once You Know This, You’ll Never Get Caught off Guard Again

Honor Payne
3 min readSep 24, 2024
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After the narcissist has discarded and sabotaged the relationship you may wonder if they’re coming back, and whether you need to keep your doors double locked at night.

I can assure you that you do because your ex-narcissist is always coming back, but why, what for and what is the motive?

The Discard is Never Permanent

Regardless of how they are behaving in real life, a narcissist will never break up with their partner in their head.

A narcissist’s delusion and what they have done in real life are two very different things.

In their delusion, they keep an image of everyone they have ever idolized as a replacement parental figure in their mind.

This is everyone they have ever dated.

It’s like a photo of you that they photoshop to make sure it’s totally flawless.

The narcissist is completely entangled with this image of you, but not the real you on the outside of them.

For a narcissist, everything happens internally because the only thing they can form an emotional attachment to is…

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Honor Payne

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