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What does it mean when a narcissist starts ignoring you? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  So what does it mean when a narcissist ignores you?
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  When they just start ignoring you?
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  When they like? When they damn near go no
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  contact with you? What does it mean when they you
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  hear nothing from them? Silence in the house or outside
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  the house? That's what we're talking about
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  today, y'all. If you're new here, my name is
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  Lee Hammock. I'm a diagnosed narcissist and
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  welcome to another episode of The Narcissist Code.
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  Welcome back. Yes, when a narcissist
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  narcissist ignores you, right? I'll do another video on what
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  happens when you ignore a narcissist.
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  I'll add it to my list, but this video is going to be exclusively
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  talking about when a narcissist ignores you.
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  When you when they start ignoring you.
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  What does it mean? What does it mean when that
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  pesky pesky, pesky, pesky, pesky pesky narcissist starts to
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  ignore you? The first thing it means Y'all
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  if y'all in a relationship together, whatever.
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  The first thing that it could mean is that they are
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  preoccupied with new supply. They're courting someone else.
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  Their attention is going elsewhere.
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  If y'all are together and they start ignoring you in within the
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  same household, within the same parameters, within the same
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  space, that typically means that they have someone else, that
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  they're entertaining someone else in some way, shape or form.
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  There's probably somebody else in the picture.
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  Y'all that that just is now. Are they physically cheating
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  with this other person? Maybe right?
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  Chances are yes, but somehow they're not cheating physically.
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  They're doing the emotional stuff right.
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  They're just giggling. They were there giggling,
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  looking into their phone at night and like, sorry, sorry for
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  waking you up. You some of that.
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  They're over there, Kiki kid and whatnot, man.
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  They're just laughing and giggling, giggling and all of
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  their other good stuff. But this is what happens.
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  They are ignoring you because they're preoccupied with
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  somebody else. Their energy is going elsewhere.
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  This is what goes on. I know people don't like to hear
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  that, but lately that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, it does
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  suck when you try to heal and grow and build something with
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  someone and they just, they're constantly like ignoring you and
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  shutting you down and just pretty much giving you the
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  silent treatment. Then yes, they are typically
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  trying to entertain someone else and it and it does suck.
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  And you don't have to live together in the same household
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  for them to ignore you. Like when the text messages or
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  the responses are few and far between.
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  Like they used to respond every single day within a within a few
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  minutes or a couple hours. Now it's the next day.
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  Oops. I'm sorry.
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  I was busy yesterday. Oh, sorry.
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  Did this happen? Oh, didn't see your message
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  today just now. Sorry.
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  I'm just sorry. I'm just getting back to this.
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  Sorry. It is.
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  Now. Could they have actually, no
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  devil's advocate, could they have actually missed the
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  message? Yeah, it's possible.
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  Right. But the pattern, it's the
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  pattern Once. OK, well, they do it once.
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  Twice. OK.
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  If if it ever happened the last 10 times, come on, y'all.
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  Come on, man. Come on.
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  That, that, that's a, that's a pattern right there.
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  You got to see it. You got to see that that's a
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  pattern. This is not a mistake.
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  This is them ignoring you. They don't want to give you
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  their energy anymore. They're getting new supply.
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  They're getting supply from somebody else or to getting more
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  supply or they're just getting validated from somebody else.
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  Even if you, let me say this right here, even if you are
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  still validating them, even if you are still talking to them
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  and being there for them and doing the same things you've
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  always been doing, even if you're going above and beyond,
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  they can still try to ignore you, y'all.
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  They can still get validation from someone else.
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  And I said this before it, you know, people say the grass is
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  greener and others people think the grass is greener on the
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  other side of the fence. It's not that you're right.
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  Yeah, it's not right there, y'all?
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  It's not always that with narcissist.
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  Sometimes it's just because it's different grass, right?
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  It's different grass, so to speak.
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  Like the grass is greener because it's different.
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  It's different grass. It's grassy, the grassy Knoll,
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  right? It's just different grass that
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  your, your grass is green. You got lush Kentucky bluegrass,
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  right? I don't know.
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  Yeah, I'm grass ignorant. You got Kentucky bluegrass and
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  they got North Carolina's clay. Whatever.
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  You got better grass, but it's just different grass, right?
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  That's what happens. This is the mentality of
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  narcissistic people. They seek out new.
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  It's the newness. It's the newness.
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  Yeah. It has very little to do with
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  you. Sometimes.
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  It's just the newness. It's the new, new.
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  It's the newness of it, Right. So that's something you have to
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  consider and you have to think about as well, right there.
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  But I also say this sometimes they're ignoring you when they
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  started ignoring you, it could be because you're they're trying
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  to avoid some type of accountability.
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  I said it. So when I say avoid some type of
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  accountability is that you've caught them up in something.
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  They've been caught. They're busted everything.
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  Who you calling busted, Buster? Woody?
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  Toy Story. What was it?
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  Toy Story Story? One that's first Toy Story.
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  Who you calling busted, Buster? He's in Sid's backyard at the
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  end. Yep.
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  But yeah, they are you. They got busted something that's
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  happened to them. Now they're ignoring you in this
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  passive aggressive rage, right. It's passive aggressive
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  narcissistic rages include this ignoring you does include this
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  periods of the solid treatment. But sometimes they're ignoring
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  you. They can they can interact with
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  you a little bit, but they're ignoring all other interactions.
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  They will interact with you when they need something from you,
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  but anything else coming from your side is ignored.
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  Anything else coming from your side is pushed to the side,
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  pushed to the wayside and whatnot.
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  So when they're ignoring you, typically they're trying to get
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  away from something. Typically they're trying to
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  punish you for saying something or doing something along those
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  lines, right? Typically it's something alone
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  going down that pathway or that road right there.
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  Typically, Typically is the Greek God of maybe.
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  If y'all don't understand, if y'all, if y'all remember that
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  old running joke. Typically is the Greek God of
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  maybe. Typically they're trying to get
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  away from something, right? If they're ignoring you, they
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  feel like you have wronged them in some way, shape or form as
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  well. I'm talk about it in a second,
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  but if you're trying to hold them accountable, they can't
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  absolutely ignore you. They really can.
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  They'll just, yeah, yeah. I say ignoring you is not the
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  same as silent. The silent treatment ignoring
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  you can include the silent treatment can include periods of
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  the silent treatment. It can include periods of
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  stonewalling. But if they, like I said, they
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  will interact with you when they're ignoring you overall,
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  like I said, they're they're just invalidating you and
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  whatnot. And another reason why they
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  ignore you what what I just spoke on is because they're
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  angry as hell at you. They feel like you've wronged
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  them in some way in some fashion.
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  So now they feel like they have to punish you with their silence
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  or ignoring you to make you to kind of push your head down, to
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  make you feel like you're down here.
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  This is what a lot of narcissistic people would do.
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  They'll try to push your head down to make you feel like, to
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  invalidate you, to make you feel like you're way down here while
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  they're up here. You see in this the mentality,
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  there's so many narcissistic people.
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  They want to ignore you to make you feel like, like, say you
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  being punished for something. They want to ignore you to, to,
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  to, to put you in your place, to teach you a lesson, so to speak.
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  They want to ignore you because it works.
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  Let's keep it. Yeah, let's keep it high and
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  ready. They ignore you sometimes simply
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  because it works. It does.
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  It's one of those things. It does work.
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  It absolutely does work when they ignore you when they're
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  trying to hold you, when they're doing things to you, that does
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  happen. So you have to, like I said, you
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  have to be prepared for this when it.
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  So Lee, what the hell do we do when they're ignoring us?
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  Now, if they're ignoring you just kind of like they're doing
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  a solid treatment, whatever, and you have something important
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  that you have to share to share with them, either tell them to
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  their face, even though they're ignoring you, or text it to them
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  so you can. So you can say, hey, look, I
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  told you this. I'm just telling you this
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  because it's important. Now you can do what you can do
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  with the information as you will, what you will.
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  And I'm just make sure I told you, hey, the performance, our
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  kids performance is today at 3:00.
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  They would love for you to be there.
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  I'm just letting you know. Takes it home as well.
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  Get it out. Like I said, get it out of your
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  system to make sure you have visual proof or whatever.
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  Because when they get there. Yeah, can they?
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  Can they still get mad later on? Yeah, they can still get mad
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  later on. Why don't you just, Well, see,
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  why don't you, why don't you just tell me?
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  I did tell you. Well, why don't you text me?
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  I did text you. Well, why don't you just come
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  pull me? You know, you got to drag me
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  sometime. You got to drag me with you.
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  So I have to drag your big stinking ass to the performance
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  when I just clearly told you about it and you not talking to
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  me. Now be careful saying that right
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  there y'all, because they will get angry right big stinking
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  ass. I stink so I stink now I got
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  stinking ass. But they yeah, ignore you is a
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  power trip for some of these for some narcissistic people.
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  If you keep if we keeping it real ignore you can't just be
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  them on a power trip. Can't just be them messing with
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  you and this them deciding that today they're going to mess with
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  you like today like they're just low energy.
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  They're just out of it. So they're just ignore you in a
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  passive aggressive way to just cause chaos in the house.
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  They're bored. They can ignore you because
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  they're bored. Y'all when you get a bored, A
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  bored narcissist is a dangerous narcissist.
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  A bored narcissist is a is a self-destructive, manipulative,
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  toxic bastard narcissist. That's what they will do.
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  They'll destroy everything around them just because they're
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  simply bored. They'll destroy the
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  communication in their relationship just because
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  they're simply bored. They'll start ignoring you just
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  because they're simply bored. They'll stop responding to you
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  and texting you and calling you and just just giving you grunts
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  as responses just because they're bored.
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  Some of them, some narcissists, y'all live in chaos.
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  They like the chaotic lifestyle, they like the chaotic.
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  They like everything about the chaotic parameters and the chaos
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  in their life and whatnot. So they will bring chaos to your
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  life as well. If they enjoy the chaos in their
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  own lives, they're absolutely going to enjoy it in yours
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  bringing it to you. If they enjoy the chaotic
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  lifestyle, the chaotic, the the chaos all around, they're going
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  to bring the chaos to your life just because they're bored,
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  because they have nothing else to do, because there's nothing
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  else that nobody else to mess with.
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  Like, and you got and you drove, you drew the card of having to
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  deal with this toxic, narcissistic person.
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  You drew the you, like I said, you drew, you drew the deck.
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  You you drew from the wrong deck because this is your partner or
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  this is your parent, whoever this part, whatever role that
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  they play in your life, it sucks, but this is a tonight is
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  the cars you got dealt right, The cars you got dealt.
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  So now you want to throw your hand back.
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  So now you get you get dealt a bad hand in spades or poker.
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  You want to throw that. You want to throw that hand back
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  in right, 'cause sometimes these poker hands, you can't do that
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  at the widow, right? You got a bunch of mismatched
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  cars. You can't do that at the widow.
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  So in the conclusion, y'all, if they're ignoring you, let's say
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  get it out. Or if you have something
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  important to say to them, get it out of your system, text it to
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  them, Leave a note in the refrigerator, leave a note in a
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  car. What have you got to do?
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  Call them, leave a voicemail, whatever you have to do.
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  If it's important, make sure you share it with them, because
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  otherwise they're going to get angry as hell and just blame you
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  for not sharing it with them. Regardless of whether or not
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  they're ignoring you, they're going to blame you for not
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  sharing it with them and what not.
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