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- 0:00What is going on, beautiful folks?
- 0:03Lee Hammock, your favorite self aware narcissist here with
- 0:05another episode of The Narcissist Code.
- 0:08Today we're asking a question. Should you tell a narcissist you
- 0:11are leaving them? Should you tell them?
- 0:14Should have. Should you let them know?
- 0:16Let's get it. Boom, boom, boom.
- 0:35Welcome back. Welcome back.
- 0:36Welcome back, folks. That's the question of the year.
- 0:40Say, I know the question of the hour, safety first.
- 0:43This is always tell people safety first.
- 0:46Should you tell them you are leaving?
- 0:48There are a lot of moving pieces in this situation, but I'm
- 0:52always going to say safety first because some people have kids,
- 0:57some people don't have kids, some people have houses,
- 0:59property, cars, some people don't have access to finances.
- 1:02Somebody there's so many different moving pieces here
- 1:05that you always want to plan for your safety first, being safe
- 1:08and whatnot. What's going on April, How you
- 1:10doing? This is a good question.
- 1:12I'm I'm going to do a whole separate video right there.
- 1:14How to tell a narcissist. I'll do a whole separate video
- 1:16on that one. But any spaces, right, You have
- 1:20to protect your safety first. You have to protect the safety
- 1:22of your children if you have them.
- 1:24This is the this is what you have to work with.
- 1:26This is the type of mindsets you have to have.
- 1:29You know, it is like it's just in this space right here.
- 1:33I told you a few hours ago I left home and never came back.
- 1:35Nothing has changed their self as your life will.
- 1:37Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
- 1:38Did we talk earlier today? Did you do one-on-one today?
- 1:42But yeah, if you tell them you could foil foil your whole
- 1:47escape plan, you could, you know what I mean?
- 1:51If you're done with them, make sure that you're done with them.
- 1:54Make sure you have a look, make sure that you create a safety
- 1:57plan, a safety plan of actions. You see what I'm saying?
- 2:03A safety plan. You have to protect your safety
- 2:05first because if you tell them you're going to leave them, you
- 2:08you'd never know. Some people could snap, some
- 2:11people could lose their minds, some people could go ahead.
- 2:13And if I can't have you, no one will type of mindset and send
- 2:18you to meet your maker. Me.
- 2:21Some of them can't send you to meet your maker.
- 2:23And you just never know what people are going you.
- 2:26You never know what people will do.
- 2:29And one thing that I've learned since I've been doing this, one
- 2:32thing I've learned since I've been talking to people and
- 2:34coaching and whatnot, one thing I've learned is that I don't put
- 2:37anything past anybody, right? I don't put anything past
- 2:45anyone. No, don't tell them.
- 2:48Listen to him and stay safe. Yeah, you sometimes you don't
- 2:50want to tell them, y'all? Of course, you of course, if you
- 2:53have kids, whatever, you're going to have to tell them that
- 2:55you, if you after you get to safety, you're going to have to
- 2:57set up, set up a plan with the kids, talk to an attorney if
- 3:00possible, have a plan of action in place, because some of them
- 3:04are going to try to make your life hard with the kids in
- 3:06situations like that. And like y'all don't understand
- 3:09how many times I've heard this right here, this right here just
- 3:11be breaking my heart. So many people want to escape.
- 3:15So many people want to get out. So many people have escaped and
- 3:18so many people do get out, but then they get sucked back in or
- 3:21they tell their partner they're leaving and they clap cheeks one
- 3:23more time and guess what happens?
- 3:25You end up with a baby on the way.
- 3:28You end up pregnant or you end up getting them pregnant and
- 3:31then they got you. If you don't have kids now they
- 3:33got you. Now you have a choice.
- 3:36Now you might have a choice to make it depending on where you
- 3:38are and what location you're in. You know what I mean?
- 3:41But that's the space that so many people fall into right
- 3:43there, right? That's the dynamic it went out
- 3:46that so many people fall into. You have to protect yourself
- 3:49because telling them could mean you don't make it out.
- 3:53Think about it right there. Should I tell them?
- 3:55You know what I mean? Should I tell them I'm leaving?
- 3:58Could mean that you don't make it out of the you don't make it
- 4:02out of the house. You don't get a chance to pack
- 4:05They throw you look, especially some of them will get angry and
- 4:07throw you out before you have a chance to pack and get your
- 4:10stuff get get rid of your stuff before you have a chance to make
- 4:13a plan to get out. They just throw you out you hey,
- 4:15I don't think we're going to I don't think this is working out
- 4:17for us anymore. I think I want to leave and then
- 4:20guess what happens you tell them you want to leave and then they
- 4:23kick you out. Let's leave now.
- 4:24No, don't get anything. I paid for that.
- 4:26I bought all of this. Get out of here.
- 4:28You can't. You came with nothing.
- 4:31You leave her with nothing. Get the hell out.
- 4:33Bye, bye, bye bye. That's the type of stuff that
- 4:37they will do to you. You know what I mean?
- 4:39This is the type of space and like the type of situation that
- 4:42they will put you into. It really, really does.
- 4:45So you have to protect yourself. Like I said, you have if you
- 4:48have kids and whether or not you have kids, you also have to you
- 4:51have to protect yourself. You know what I mean?
- 4:55Get out, get the hell out of here.
- 4:56You don't. They might not give you an
- 4:58opportunity to leave. They might not give you an
- 5:00opportunity to get out of there and whatnot.
- 5:03And like April said, events, support groups, one on ones.
- 5:06Yep. I got everything coming up,
- 5:07y'all, Everything. You can find everything about me
- 5:10at mentalillness.net, y'all, Mental illness.net.
- 5:14You can find everything about me, my coaching, my courses, my
- 5:18support group. Everything is available at
- 5:20mentalillness.net. But I'll also say this, well
- 5:24y'all, if y'all don't know, I have a workshop coming up this
- 5:26weekend and Dallas and Houston, TX.
- 5:29Dallas and Houston, TX will be in Dallas November the 2nd and
- 5:33Houston November the 3rd for our next in person live workshop.
- 5:36So you can register for that at mentalillness.net.
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- 5:55be safe, y'all, please be safe. Good luck in Texas.
- 5:57Thank you so much. And it's why won't the why won't
- 6:01the abuse or leave? Sometimes, like sometimes you
- 6:03have to force them to leave. Y'all, I'm gonna just be real.
- 6:06I'm gonna just be real. They sometimes you have to force
- 6:08them to leave you alone. You have to force them because
- 6:11they don't want to leave. They think if they they think if
- 6:14by refusing to leave that they they will keep you there.
- 6:18But you, you, you, you'll wear, they'll wear you down and you'll
- 6:20just be like, OK, just stay. Since you're refusing to leave,
- 6:23just go ahead and stay. No, kick their asses out.
- 6:26But be careful. Y'all, just be safe.
- 6:28I, I just, I really just want people to be safe.
- 6:31That's really what I want because like any spaces right
- 6:34here, any, any spaces in these dynamics, I just really just
- 6:39want people to be safe. We normally meet every Sunday on
- 6:42Zoom, but the last couple Sundays I've been like this
- 6:44Sunday I'll be in Texas. Last Sunday I was sick.
- 6:46So I think I'm doing one tomorrow.
- 6:48I'll probably do 1:00 tomorrow afternoon for about an hour.
- 6:50Just a a meet up workshop. I mean, not a workshop, but a
- 6:54Zoom meeting, a support group, Zoom meeting.
- 6:56Y'all can find my group, my support group.
- 6:58I'll drop the link for that in the comment section as well so
- 7:00y'all can check that out as well.
- 7:02Yeah, because like if you're going to tell, like think about
- 7:06this right here, y'all. If you're going like you don't
- 7:09even like not only the should you think about telling them, if
- 7:11you're going to leave, you have to think about telling.
- 7:22With other people, you have to think about that as well.
- 7:24That's something you have to take into consideration.
- 7:26Like I'm not, not only should I think do you do you have to
- 7:30consider telling your partner or ex or whoever it is that you're
- 7:32leaving, You also have to think about who else you're going to
- 7:35tell. Because telling the wrong person
- 7:37could be just as bad as telling the narcissist or toxic person,
- 7:41telling the abusive person, telling the wrong person, could
- 7:44it be just as bad because they'll tell them, You see what
- 7:47I'm saying? You might as well tell them
- 7:47yourself. If you're going to share with
- 7:49the wrong person, you share it with a flying monkey or somebody
- 7:52that you think you can trust. And then you end up not being
- 7:54able to trust them because this person is a lying, abusive
- 7:57person. You see, you see what I'm
- 7:58saying? They lie just to get to get on a
- 8:01narcissist good side. That type of stuff happens as
- 8:04well. You may sometimes you
- 8:06absolutely, yes, you absolutely have to move in silence.
- 8:09You mean darts would never want to leave a situation where they
- 8:12are receiving supply. So most times I would most times
- 8:15that's true right there. But a lot of times you get into
- 8:17these spaces where if they think they can find a better source of
- 8:20supply, they'll leave. You know what I'm saying?
- 8:22If they think somebody, somebody will fit them better, they'll
- 8:24they'll dip out. You mean no, because they enjoy
- 8:29torturing with the element of surprise.
- 8:30So you do the same way to them. So yeah, I would agree with
- 8:32this. Like sometimes you have to
- 8:34surprise them because again, they will tell, they will try to
- 8:38talk you out of it. They will try to make you feel
- 8:39guilty about leaving. It would not.
- 8:41They'll make they'll try to make you feel bad about choosing
- 8:43yourself about deciding to leave and things like that.
- 8:46They will absolutely make you feel bad about that type of
- 8:48stuff. Y'all.
- 8:49So these are things that you have to take into consideration
- 8:51when you're trying to heal, when you're trying to move forward,
- 8:54when you're trying to get away from this person and whatnot,
- 8:57right? This type of stuff you have to
- 8:58take into consideration what is a flying monkey?
- 9:01A flying monkey is a blind supporter of the narcissist.
- 9:05Fly monkeys are people that support the narcissist no matter
- 9:08what they do, no matter what they hear, no matter what they
- 9:11sing, no matter what evidence of the contrary that is presented
- 9:15towards them. Fly monkeys, absolutely or can
- 9:19sometimes. Fly monkeys sometimes.
- 9:20Don't know, but sometimes. Fly monkeys are absolutely
- 9:25horrible people. Fly monkeys are absolutely
- 9:28horrible people and whatnot. Yes, the neighbors are the
- 9:32narcissist. Turn off the GPS on phones and
- 9:35watches. They have access there you go.
- 9:36So this is this could be part of your escape plan right here.
- 9:38Thank you for sharing this, Cherie.
- 9:39Because if you're not going to tell them that you're leaving
- 9:41right, you know, and you feel like your, your your life is in
- 9:43danger or you're not going to be safe if you leave if they know
- 9:45where you are yes, exactly do this type of stuff right here.
- 9:48Turn off the GPS on the phones and watches get a burner phone.
- 9:51But like also, like I said, talk to an attorney first, y'all,
- 9:54because sometimes you don't want to just dip out with the kids
- 9:56and disappear because they can get you.
- 9:58Sometimes they can get you for parental alienation and you can
- 10:00end up losing your kids, right? You can end up losing your kids
- 10:04to them. And you don't want that to
- 10:05happen. So make sure you talk to an
- 10:06attorney first to weigh your options, if that's a
- 10:08possibility, before you decide to take that action.
- 10:10Of course, you you want to lose your life, dip out.
- 10:13Of course. You know what I mean.
- 10:15When he noticed I was moving out, he cried and begged.
- 10:18He promised he'd start therapy if I.
- 10:20He thought he promised to start therapy if I wanted.
- 10:23If I want. Yeah, If you want it.
- 10:24Yeah. He would start therapy if you
- 10:26wanted him. That means he doesn't want to do
- 10:28that. He doesn't want to start therapy
- 10:30out. He doesn't want to.
- 10:31He's making me feel bad for walking away.
- 10:32He doesn't. He still doesn't acknowledge
- 10:34what he's done. Emotional abuse got too much.
- 10:36I got sick. He's making.
- 10:37Yeah, that's what they do. That's what I'm saying.
- 10:39Before you think about telling them, make sure, make sure you
- 10:42get ready to go on a guilt trip. You going to abandon?
- 10:45You going to abandon me like this?
- 10:49You really going to abandon me like this?
- 10:51As hard as I work to be with you, it's hard of my work to do
- 10:55this, do that. You going to abandon me?
- 10:59Wow, wow, wow. See, they've tried to put it on
- 11:02to you right there. You know what I mean?
- 11:04Really be. You have to be safe and protect
- 11:06yourself. Listen to the video.
- 11:07Save me and watch them Turkey. Be safe.
- 11:09Take care of yourself. You mean so much future faking
- 11:13could happen. Yes, absolutely.
- 11:14If you tell them that you're going to leave, they can start
- 11:16lying to you and making promises of change.
- 11:18Making promises that the future will be different.
- 11:21I'm going to be. If you stay with me, I promise
- 11:23you things will be different. I promise you.
- 11:26Things will be different. I promise you things are going
- 11:30to be different from here on. I promise you I'm going to stop
- 11:32cheating. I know I had three kids outside
- 11:35of the relationship. I know I'd have had three and I
- 11:37got one on the way. I promise it's going to stop
- 11:42right now because I only want you I only want you yes grand
- 11:47gestures absolutely right, April grand gestures.
- 11:50They will absolutely start doing this.
- 11:52A lot of them will absolutely start doing grand gestures.
- 11:54Some of them might propose to you or ask you to marry them on
- 11:58the way out the door. You see what I'm saying they
- 12:00will propose to you or they they haven't gave you a ring before
- 12:03now they want to propose to you. Now they want to change now they
- 12:05want to do the grand gestures will come.
- 12:07Just know just y'all just know this, if you're on the way out
- 12:10the door, if you're going, if you're telling them that you're
- 12:13going to leave and all of a sudden now they want to propose
- 12:16to you. You've been like y'all been
- 12:17together for 15 years now they want to propose to you.
- 12:20You see what I'm saying? I just, I just thought this
- 12:23would be the time. There's no, there's no time like
- 12:25the present, right? There's no time like the
- 12:29present. I just had.
- 12:30I did a one-on-one with a lady the other day said that happened
- 12:32to her. She told her she told her
- 12:33narcissistic boyfriend that she was getting ready to leave.
- 12:37She was like, look, I'm done. The relationship has ran this
- 12:39course. I'm out of here.
- 12:40You know what happened? Will you marry me the next day?
- 12:46Look, he you can tell he just bought out.
- 12:49He he just went out and bought the ring.
- 12:50She's like, well, I don't know. But he still, he had the receipt
- 12:53with him. He just he was hiding the
- 12:54receipt because he didn't want me to see how much I spent on
- 12:56it. Like that mean he just went out
- 12:57and bought it because he thought that would be the only way to
- 13:00keep you. Not changing his behaviors, not
- 13:02changing his actions, not apologizing, just proposing.
- 13:06And some people it doesn't work on some people.
- 13:08Yeah, it works because you want to be you.
- 13:10Some people want to be married, but yes, yes, a million times
- 13:13yes, This is all I ever wanted. That's how they get you.
- 13:18You have to protect yourself in these situations right here.
- 13:20Y'all like seriously, they get you.
- 13:23They will absolutely get you. Hubic Zirconia.
- 13:26I I had a lady the other day, April told me her her
- 13:31narcissistic. I think he they got engaged and
- 13:35she took it. He I think he started cheating
- 13:37or whatever and she took the rain to get it appraised.
- 13:39It was it was fake, end up being fake.
- 13:42He said no way that's fake. I got it from a jeweler.
- 13:46But they're like Nah, Nah bro it's fake.
- 13:48It's fake. Marriage doesn't change anything
- 13:51for them. It changed the only thing I feel
- 13:53like marriage changes with narcissistic people, especially
- 13:56if they give you a ring just to keep you or they or y'all get
- 13:59married. Just y'all go down to the
- 14:01courthouse to get married just so y'all keep y'all stay
- 14:03together. Marriage only changes the
- 14:06ownership dynamic. Now they think you belong to
- 14:08them. You see what I'm saying?
- 14:09Now they think you belong to them.
- 14:12What's the safest way to move the rest of your stuff when he's
- 14:14at the house intoxicated? So now you might have to get a
- 14:16police escort or get get a police escort.
- 14:19Ask the police. Can they help you get the rest
- 14:21of your stuff or can get get the police possibly.
- 14:24And then see if you have a some friends and family that can help
- 14:26you move or mover in company. They can come in and help get
- 14:29this stuff and they have the police there because like
- 14:32sometimes I'm just telling you, they'll make it very difficult.
- 14:34You mean he already locked me out and I had a plan to get back
- 14:37in. I was taking a shower when he
- 14:38came home to find Yep, there you go.
- 14:40I'm telling you, if you let them know, if they, if you let them
- 14:42know or they find out you're going to leave, they'll they'll
- 14:44go ahead and try to accelerate the process to make you seem
- 14:46like this is how hard life going to be.
- 14:48Get out. I don't care if you need to take
- 14:50a shower. I don't care about none of that.
- 14:53And then they get you. Yes, yes, yes.
- 14:54Thanks for the reminder. April, Dallas and Houston, TX
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- 15:23your questions answered and all that other good stuff.
- 15:26I messaged him I deserve better and moving on.
- 15:28He nonchalantly replied good luck but then came back 4
- 15:32leagues late what 4 weeks later line he was moving out the
- 15:34country. Debate me to fake close up.
- 15:36Hey just so you know I'm going to Timbuktu.
- 15:42This will be the last time you see me and then you go talk to
- 15:45him and then all of a sudden he's not going to Timbuktu.
- 15:48It was a lie. It shows you he's it shows you
- 15:50it shows you he's still lying. You know what I'm saying?
- 15:53They showed you that he's still lying.
- 15:54Is walking away better than telling them?
- 15:56Sometimes walking away allows you to protect yourself and be
- 16:00safe. And it also sends the message
- 16:01that you're done. Like I said, sometimes you don't
- 16:03want to. Sometimes telling them can be
- 16:05dangerous, Y'all? That's what I'm just saying.
- 16:07Sometimes telling them to their face can be very dangerous.
- 16:09You don't owe them. Who said that?
- 16:11You don't owe them, Apollo. You owe.
- 16:12You don't owe them an explanation.
- 16:14No, you don't. They know they their behaviors
- 16:17have led up to this, you know, But they'll tell you today.
- 16:20I had no idea you were unhappy. I know every day I walked in the
- 16:24house last week, you were crying.
- 16:25But I didn't know you were unhappy.
- 16:26I thought, I thought those were happy tears.
- 16:28Every single day. I thought you were crying happy
- 16:31tears because I was coming home every day after just crying to
- 16:33see me. Those were happy, Babe.
- 16:35I thought you were so happy with me, blah, blah, blah.
- 16:40You know, he's made me feel bad. He's tried everything to get a
- 16:45response. Yeah, some of them will try to
- 16:46make you feel guilty about not wanting to be with him anymore.
- 16:49They absolutely will. They'll make you feel bad.
- 16:51They're trying to make you feel guilty.
- 16:52They're trying to make it seem like you are the worst person on
- 16:55the planet for leaving them alone like you.
- 16:56You just get like you. You gave up too easy.
- 17:00I can't believe you decided to give up.
- 17:02I can't believe it. You gave.
- 17:15So I I have not overcome my narcissism now.
- 17:17I still have a personality disorder.
- 17:18I just, I just been in therapy the last seven years.
- 17:22That's what I've done for 9 weeks and he's still going
- 17:24strong. Yeah.
- 17:24He would try to wear you down. He think, he thinks.
- 17:27He thinks consistency without change behaviors, consistent
- 17:30consistently planning the victim is to get you.
- 17:35You see what I'm saying? Consistency planning the victim
- 17:38think that they're going to wear you down.
- 17:39Like, look, I'm consistently around Artner.
- 17:41You always wanted, you said you wanted, you always said you
- 17:43wanted me to be more consistent. And now I am.
- 17:46And you don't give a damn. I'm being more consistent and
- 17:50you don't give a damn. Always the victim years ago,
- 17:55always the victim. You know what I'm saying?
- 17:58Always the victim. You not going to fight for us.
- 18:03You not going to fight for us. So I actually just recorded a
- 18:06video today, Joseph. I don't know.
- 18:09It's a it's a, it's a, it's a YouTube video.
- 18:11It'll be it, it'll be up probably later this week.
- 18:14Because he said, how do you get a cheaty woman to admit it when
- 18:16you have plenty of proof and they say it's not real.
- 18:18You like, you don't need a confession, you don't need you,
- 18:21you don't need a confession from them.
- 18:23Y'all like if you have proof, just act on it.
- 18:26If you have proof, act on it, take it and act on it, because I
- 18:29would never admit to it. Like literally the video I told
- 18:32today I I recorded today, it said the Narcissus would ever
- 18:35admit to being wrong or admit the truth.
- 18:37And most times it's going to be no because it doesn't benefit
- 18:40them. It gives you the them admitting
- 18:41to it gives you the power right there, right.
- 18:43It gives you all the power, and they don't want to give you the
- 18:45power. Yeah, don't respond.
- 18:47Keep blocking. Sometimes.
- 18:48Yeah, Yeah, sometimes. I know you might not want to do
- 18:50this, but sometimes you might have to call.
- 18:51You might have to get the boys involved.
- 18:52You might have called them boys. Bad boys.
- 18:55Bad boys. What you gonna do?
- 18:57What you gonna do when they come for you?
- 19:01Yeah. Even proof is denied.
- 19:04Yeah, they're gonna deny everything, y'all.
- 19:05But I said once you have, if you have your evidence, if you have
- 19:08your proof, just take it and act on it.
- 19:11Whatever taking and act on it. Acting on it looks like for you
- 19:15take it and act on it because they're not going to do it.
- 19:17Yeah, it doesn't benefit them. You know what I'm saying?
- 19:21It really doesn't benefit them in any way, shape or form to do
- 19:24that type of stuff right there. It really doesn't.
- 19:28So be safe. Anyway, y'all, I need to hop off
- 19:30this thing I have to get ready for.
- 19:33I'm getting ready for Texas. So again, last time y'all got
- 19:36the last time. I'm going to say this.
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- 20:26yourselves, and take care of each other as well.
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- 20:32Peace.