One question that has been bothering me - Was I married to a narcissist? I do not know. For me to describe Mr.D. I would need a stronger term. Attributing him with a word like narcissism looks too soft me. He was much more cruel!
He,
He,
- Pays hell lot of lip service. But in reality his word and actions never matched up. On questioning him, I'm threatened, beaten and physiologically abused.
- States that people around him are bad. One observation that I have had is this. If he finds anyone better than him, he has a story to narrate as to how the 'saints of his family' (parents, brothers and him) were troubled by them.
- Does self-exaltation and thinks and says that he is perfect. He is always the good guy of the story. You know, he beat me up for my mistakes, he threw food on me for my mistakes, he took off all my money for my well being etc.. And the best part, he even told a lawyer (who was consulted as a first step toward divorce) that he has practical wisdom and I have only useless bookish knowledge which I gained through books and blogs!
- Has been acting nurturing and empathetic at the beginning of the marriage. Now, how sorry I feel for myself, not to detect the venom inside him while his actions depicted the opposite. And never to forget that he has been reminding me (till now) about how good his behaviors and actions have been.
- Holds an extreme ability to lie, then deny, and blame shifting as an and when appropriate for him. And my poor brain, went on confusion mode unable to decipher these contradictory behaviors.
- When he is caught on a lie, he will either deny that he said or would blame me that my question was different and I'm unnecessarily torturing him.
- He would turn into a victim mode often and you guess who is the villain here? Yes, it's me always.
- Believes (for me it looks this) that I cannot survive without his support. He kept convincing me that he is the only one of mine in the whole world. And then happens point 3 and 4.
- Tried and succeeded in alleviating me from all my contacts. According to him, majority of my friends, my mother, my brother, my colleagues, my relatives and even my doctor are too bad people to be in touch with. He pointed out their problems in such a way that I would get convinced at many times, that they are not to be with. And slowly I got alleviated, no one knew my problems and I lost all support at some point. But, he is being regarded as 'The Saint' of the family. Even now, after disclosing my problems, many do not believe me. You know, after he moved out he calls my uncles, aunties and cousins and is playing his well scripted 'cry drama' and tells them that he cannot live in this world without me.
- Tells that he is the only soul incarnated to revive my life. He does everything for me you know. To aid me in my higher studies, he even had controlled himself from having sex with me for the past seven years and had once in a blue moon physical contacts before that. And can someone believe this, he tried his luck on getting me impregnated for a few times in the first year and kept away from me after that because the baby is born.
- Desperate in getting me back now. He is playing all his venomous tact, crying, acting love (send love filled messages through mails and messages), sending bouquets on my birthday (he never did this in the past ten years), calling up Maria and saying good things about me to her (so that I'm convinced that he is a changed man), making others call me and they telling me that he loves me a lot and cannot live this life without me.
- To my surprise, even after all these battles, he seems to believe that I will give up the idea of divorce. He believes that I can be convinced by him, that my need for separation is just a false belief that can be rectified.
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