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- 0:00What is going on, beautiful folks?
- 0:03Today we're talking about how narcissists feel after you
- 0:07thrive, after the breakup, when you're thriving.
- 0:09How do they feel it? Can they feel it like the
- 0:12narcissist 6th sense? Why?
- 0:13Why They almost always seem to pop up or reach out when you're
- 0:17healing and growing and doing the best that you've ever done.
- 0:19Why? What?
- 0:20What? I'm getting heated just thinking
- 0:24about it. Y'all, if you're new here, my
- 0:25name is Lee Hammock. I'm a diagnosed narcissist.
- 0:27And welcome to another episode of The Narcissist Code.
- 0:29Let's go. Welcome back, folks.
- 0:49Welcome back. Welcome back.
- 0:50Yes. Why is this damn near always the
- 0:53truth, right? Why do narcissistic people,
- 0:56toxic people, almost always seem to reach out to you like when
- 1:01you're healing and you're growing, when you're thriving
- 1:03after the breakup, regardless of who broke up with who,
- 1:06regardless of how it ended, Why? It's like, it's like they have a
- 1:10sixth sense. And I talk to people about this
- 1:12all the time too, right? This is one of the conversations
- 1:14I have with a lot of people about how narcissistic people,
- 1:17then they're always seem to pop up when you're healing and
- 1:20you're growing and whatnot, y'all?
- 1:21This is the truth. You know, as you're healing and
- 1:24you understand how narcissistic people operate, you come to
- 1:27understand that they can. It's like them.
- 1:29They could, they could feel it. They can feel it when you're
- 1:32healing. They can feel it.
- 1:37Like seriously. Yeah, so, so seriously.
- 1:39I do feel like it's a sixth sense.
- 1:41It's like when you're healing and moving on, you, you, you go
- 1:44no contact. You've been months without
- 1:46speaking to this person. You haven't dealt with this
- 1:48person at all. You haven't talked to them.
- 1:50And like the narcissist is like, imagine the narcissist waking up
- 1:53from their, their like narcissistic hibernation, like
- 1:57their slumber. They're sleeping in a a little
- 2:00narcissistic cave. They're like, hold on, they
- 2:05feasted on a lot of impacts. They're nice, fat, living in The
- 2:11Cave or under a house and some insulation like a bear.
- 2:19Wait a minute, they're doing good right now.
- 2:23Hell no, Let me. Let me reach out to them.
- 2:25They haven't contacted me, so they must be doing good.
- 2:28They must have moved on. Hell, now I can't stand this
- 2:30feeling. So some of them will wake up
- 2:34from their little hibernation and reach out to you to bring
- 2:37chaos into your life, right. This happens a lot of times when
- 2:41you're dealing with an let's be real, this happens so much when
- 2:44you're dealing with a narcissist.
- 2:45It just, it's one of those things that happens so much when
- 2:47you're dealing with an abusive, manipulative person.
- 2:50They continue to come back into your life.
- 2:52They continue to dabble and mess with your head.
- 2:54They do all of this stuff when you're healing and This is why
- 2:58you have to fight. This is like a test.
- 2:59It's like, it's like damn near, I don't know if y'all, you don't
- 3:01have to be a believer to believe this right here, but if you're a
- 3:03believer, it's kind of like somebody's testing you.
- 3:05Somebody's testing you from above or below, right above or
- 3:10below. What's going to test you to see
- 3:13if you go see, see how much you see how much you heal right?
- 3:17They'll they'll try to come back into your life to disrupt your
- 3:20peace, to disrupt your healing, to be in to be an agent of
- 3:23chaos. Like Sarah just said, to test
- 3:26the waters. Absolutely.
- 3:28They'll come back to try to test the waters.
- 3:31A lot of times I saw, I saw a post one time like they, they
- 3:34said sometimes they, they, you're toxic.
- 3:36X sometimes reaches out to you to see if you're still stupid.
- 3:38I saw a post like that on I think it was a Twitter.
- 3:41So don't like if they they don't like it when you're thriving,
- 3:43right? Narcissists feel bad when you're
- 3:46thriving after a relationship after breakup.
- 3:48That's just the truth, right? That's really is just the truth.
- 3:50They feel bad after you after the breakup and you're thriving
- 3:54because it makes them feel less than you like in the crazy muddy
- 3:57as y'all. When I say thriving after the
- 3:59breakup, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to move on to
- 4:02someone else, right? It doesn't mean that you have to
- 4:05be in a new relationship, right? It doesn't mean that you have to
- 4:10be in a new relationship and whatnot.
- 4:12Like seriously, like you can be thriving on your own and healing
- 4:17on your own and doing well, and that's thriving, right?
- 4:20And that is absolutely thriving. They don't want you to thrive
- 4:23because you're thriving makes them feel bad about themselves.
- 4:26Your healing makes them feel bad about themselves.
- 4:28Like especially if you're doing better, like if you do happen to
- 4:30move on, they're always doing and they find out you moved on
- 4:34and they know or hear, they know or hear about your partner.
- 4:37Some of them will absolutely start stalking your partner,
- 4:40reaching out, doing it, doing this like compare and contrast
- 4:42game in their heads to kind of see what's going on.
- 4:45Like seriously, they'll do this compare and contrast stuff to
- 4:49kind of see what's going on, to see how they measure up against
- 4:52the new person in your life. A lot of them will continuously
- 4:55do this type of stuff because they feel less than, they don't
- 4:57want to feel like it. It hurts their ego when you move
- 5:00on. And moving on doesn't mean that
- 5:03you have someone else out. Moving on means you're no
- 5:05contact. Moving on means you're healing.
- 5:08Moving on means you're growing. It doesn't mean that you are in
- 5:10a new relationship. Don't confuse moving on with
- 5:13necessarily being in a new relationship.
- 5:15That doesn't have to. The two things do not have to be
- 5:18mutually inclusive. 11 can exist without the other right?
- 5:22You can move on without being in a new relationship.
- 5:25You can be thriving without being in a new relationship.
- 5:28You absolutely can. And that's just one of the
- 5:30truths right there and it happens.
- 5:35So as you're moving forward, as you're healing, and as you're
- 5:37growing, this is one of the things you have to understand.
- 5:40If y'all see the link on the screen, this is my website right
- 5:41here. People keep asking me about
- 5:43doing one on ones and coaching and whatnot.
- 5:44I've been doing this for almost five years.
- 5:47The link is right here, Mental illness.net for coaching courses
- 5:49of my support group. Everything is available at
- 5:51mentalillness.net right here. I'll actually put it in the
- 5:54comment section as well so y'all can check the link out and
- 5:56whatnot. But this is what happens.
- 6:00Like they don't want you to heal.
- 6:02Like your healing your thriving makes them feel bad about
- 6:05themselves, so why would they want you to heal, right?
- 6:08Ask yourself that question right there.
- 6:09Why would they want you to heal and thrive when it makes them
- 6:12feel less that when it makes them When it makes them question
- 6:17their own worth or value? They don't want you to heal
- 6:20because of that right there. Your healing makes them question
- 6:23what they're worth. It makes them question their own
- 6:26value. Like damn, I don't how you know,
- 6:28how much am I worth right here, right?
- 6:30How much am I, how, how valuable can I be?
- 6:33If this person is doing is treating me like this?
- 6:35How how much am I worth? You know, so they, they want you
- 6:38to question your worth and value and they also, if enough time
- 6:42has went by, if enough time has went by, you might think that
- 6:47they've changed. But if you're thriving and
- 6:49growing, that when that narcissist 6th sense kicks in
- 6:52and they go, they come out of their narcissistic hibernation
- 6:55or there's, there's, there's slumber.
- 6:58They're going to test you. They're going to like a lot of
- 7:00times if they reach out to you, they're going to say all the
- 7:03right things, Y'all, they're going to say all the right
- 7:07things. They're going to say everything
- 7:08that you've been wanting to hear, right?
- 7:10That's how it always goes. You know, that's literally how
- 7:13it always goes and whatnot. Does that force them to take
- 7:18accountability? Absolutely.
- 7:19No, it doesn't. No, that doesn't force them to
- 7:20take accountability. No.
- 7:22If they're telling you what? Yeah, that's true.
- 7:24God determines your work. If they're telling you what you
- 7:26want to hear, that doesn't force them to take accountability.
- 7:28That's just them trying to get back into get back into your
- 7:31good graces. My head is itching like hell.
- 7:33Yeah, I'm sorry. Like this is.
- 7:35That's just them trying to get back into your good graces.
- 7:38Doesn't mean that they're actually changing their
- 7:39behaviors. They'll tell you whatever.
- 7:41Yeah, they would. Absolutely tell you what you
- 7:43want to hear, right, because it benefits at the end of the day,
- 7:47it benefits them directly. So they're going to keep telling
- 7:50you what you want to hear. So when that when that
- 7:52narcissist 6th sense kicks in, that's part of what you have to
- 7:56understand. You have to fight it.
- 7:59Like so a lot of y'all believe in divine intervention.
- 8:01Y'all might be believers and whatnot.
- 8:03You might be believers and all this other stuff.
- 8:05And then you can't come out of nowhere.
- 8:07You might be praying one night, right?
- 8:08You might be praying the Lord, you might be praying to God like
- 8:11dear baby Jesus deer, 8 LB six ounce sweet baby Jesus with your
- 8:18little Jesus feet, your little Jesus arms.
- 8:22Please send me a sign that I'm healing and groans.
- 8:25Please send me a sign. And then your narcissistic ex
- 8:28happens to reach out to you the next day.
- 8:29He'd be like, that's the sign I was looking for.
- 8:32No, it's not. That's not the sign you were
- 8:36looking for it. It absolutely is not the sign
- 8:39you were looking for. You know, it absolutely is not
- 8:43the sign that you're looking for.
- 8:45Sometimes you have to force them to leave you alone.
- 8:48You might have to call the police, fire restraining orders.
- 8:50Do what you need to do, but always use discretion and be
- 8:52careful, right? You know, because that's they,
- 8:55they, I'm just telling you, they are going to make you tell them
- 8:58no. And if they still have access to
- 9:00these, a lot of people ask me like, why do they keep coming
- 9:02back? Why don't they leave me alone?
- 9:04If they literally keep coming back into your life and you
- 9:07don't tell them to leave you alone because some people don't
- 9:09tell them. Some people just don't tell them
- 9:11to leave them alone. Why would they stop leaving you
- 9:12alone when they think that you're OK with it?
- 9:15You know, that's why I tell people.
- 9:16I tell people in my support group, they're like, until you
- 9:19stand up for yourself, they're going to keep coming back into
- 9:22your life. They're going, they might not
- 9:24leave you alone even after you tell them to leave you alone,
- 9:26but at least you said it. If you don't say it, why would
- 9:29they leave you alone? That's the that's the mentality.
- 9:34If you don't tell me to leave you alone, then I'm not going to
- 9:36leave you alone until I get my needs met.
- 9:39You know, I say this all the time right here, Sir.
- 9:42What you allow is what will continue.
- 9:44That's not victim blaming. That's an honest statement right
- 9:46there. Some people like that's victim
- 9:47blaming. Oh, it is.
- 9:49It's it's the honest truth. If you keep allowing them into
- 9:52your space, into your life and having access to you, then
- 9:55they're going to keep coming back into your life because they
- 9:58think it's OK. Why wouldn't?
- 9:59Yeah, seriously, why wouldn't they think it's OK?
- 10:03You know, if you go to the black and white thinking of a lot of
- 10:05narcissists, if you let me back into your life, if you don't
- 10:08tell me to leave you alone, if you don't block me, if you don't
- 10:11go no contact, if you keep talking to me over and over
- 10:13again, why would I leave you alone?
- 10:16I think you like this. I think you want this, right?
- 10:20I think you want this. So they're not going to leave
- 10:23you alone. A lot of times, they'll keep
- 10:25playing the victim. They'll keep doing this stuff
- 10:26over and over again because they feel like it's a great benefit
- 10:28in it for them, right? And they hate it.
- 10:31So what? What?
- 10:32But when you keep no contact, you win.
- 10:35Yeah. No contact is for you.
- 10:36No contact is not to no contact is not to punish the narcissist.
- 10:40No contact is not to hurt them. No contact is to help you heal,
- 10:45is to help you thrive, is to help you move forward.
- 10:48And narcissists can sense when you, when you start to reach out
- 10:50less because like a lot of times, a lot of people you don't
- 10:55like going no contact totally can help you out, right?
- 10:58But a lot, sometimes it takes, it takes a while to build up.
- 11:01Going no contact is like literally like working out.
- 11:03You have to, I call it, I call it the no contact muscle, right?
- 11:07It's the no contact muscle. You got to work it out day one,
- 11:11day 2, It's like you do the reps day three, day 4, Now you're the
- 11:14overhead, press overhead, no contact, press 5657, pump, 80910
- 11:23days, no contact. You got to, you got to, you
- 11:25literally have to work it out. You have to empower yourself
- 11:28because if you don't, they're just going to take advantage of
- 11:30you. They're going to keep coming
- 11:31back into your life. Yeah, that becomes a part of it
- 11:35right there. You know, at the end of the day,
- 11:39it's not about winning or losing.
- 11:40I mean, that could, if that helps you out right there.
- 11:42Sometimes you have to, well, I tell people, sometimes you have
- 11:44to reframe what winning looks like for you, right?
- 11:48What winning looks like for you, Right.
- 11:51Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
- 11:53No contact for 53 days. Yeah, good for you.
- 11:57But like I said, they don't want to see you thrive.
- 11:58Y'all, You're thriving. It makes them feel bad.
- 12:01You're. Yeah.
- 12:01How about this right here, Y'all?
- 12:03You're thriving. Is there karma?
- 12:07How about that? What's going on with you, Lisa?
- 12:09How about that? You're thriving.
- 12:12You moving on? You moving forward.
- 12:14Is there karma? Why can't that be the truth
- 12:17right there, right. You know, yes, most narcissists
- 12:21are absolutely insecure. They have these, a lot of
- 12:23narcissists have these huge inflated egos, but it's like a
- 12:26huge fragile ego. It's like a big ass pane of
- 12:29glass. You know, it's big, but it's
- 12:30easy to break. All it takes is a Little Rock,
- 12:32right? All it takes is a Little Rock.
- 12:35But this is the space that so many people fall into, y'all.
- 12:37They don't want to see you thriving.
- 12:39So just thrive now, dude. Look, one way to to heal and to
- 12:43just say bump the narcissist, your narcissist, the ex, it's to
- 12:47go out and do all the things that they told you you could not
- 12:50do the things that you the things that they said you can't
- 12:53do. Go out there and do.
- 12:54They didn't want you to thrive unless they can take credit for
- 12:57us to go out there and do it. They told you, no, you cannot
- 13:01thrive. No, you're not with them
- 13:04anymore. The narcissist, no, isn't kind
- 13:07of like you meditating. The narcissist is no longer with
- 13:10us. It's like they like you're doing
- 13:11a little Ouija board, a little little empathetic Ouija board,
- 13:14like your hands are going everywhere.
- 13:16Oh, is anybody moving this or is he moving on his own?
- 13:19The narcissist is the narcissist with us.
- 13:22Is it narcissist with us no longer here?
- 13:28It's gone. Hey, anyway, but that's this
- 13:39little Ouija board. Imagine that right there,
- 13:43though. Seriously.
- 13:44They don't they don't want to see you thrive, y'all.
- 13:47They might they might use this sixth sense to try to control
- 13:50that Ouija board. Tell you how to tell you to
- 13:51reach out to them, tell you to contact them, right?
- 13:53Tell you to tell you to come back into their life.
- 13:56You have to protect yourself. Who The Who said this?
- 13:59How dangerous are they? Some of them will end your life.
- 14:01That's how dangerous they can get.
- 14:02That's how dangerous they can get right Karma's with you yeah,
- 14:09the narc in my life is fixing to get sentenced because the third
- 14:12DUI need he need to get sentenced. 3 DU is you know go
- 14:15in, go in and sit your ass down buddy.
- 14:18Go and sit your ass down for you take somebody else out of here
- 14:21with the drinking. I would definitely tell my new
- 14:23partner also to know to block to no block contact the ex
- 14:28narcissist. So they want yeah, I mean yeah,
- 14:29they help us. They can help you out right
- 14:31there. Y'all, they can help you out in
- 14:34these spaces right here, bro. Damn fool.
- 14:38I just got the intro. Yeah, I'm just silly.
- 14:42I was just seeing y'all. This is the mindset.
- 14:44They don't want you to win, right?
- 14:46Because you're winning hurts them, especially if you're not.
- 14:49If y'all are not together, they'll start feeling like,
- 14:52look, in order to make themselves feel better about you
- 14:55leaving them, some narcissistic people will actually start to
- 14:58just say, hey, look, you're only winning because of me.
- 15:01I knew you. I knew you could do it.
- 15:02You mean I knew you could do it. I knew you could.
- 15:06I, I I was rooting for you. You you were rooting for me by
- 15:08while you were actively holding me back.
- 15:10Get the hell out of here. They will lie.
- 15:13They will lie since finding you. I follow closely.
- 15:16You should know that you're the absolute best information about.
- 15:18Oh, yeah, I appreciate that. Not not to mention easy to look
- 15:21at. Oh, if I would see if I wasn't
- 15:24black, I'd be blessing right now.
- 15:26Appreciate it. I appreciate the support for for
- 15:28seriously, why did block? Why block you then unblock you
- 15:34and threaten to block you? Might as well go ahead and block
- 15:36them. It's a game, y'all.
- 15:38It's a game. I do a little question to answer
- 15:39real quick before I have to hop off y'all, but it's absolutely a
- 15:41game. It really, really is.
- 15:43It's a game. They play game.
- 15:44They play these weird ass games with you because they feel like
- 15:46it's a benefit to block you, unblock you.
- 15:48It's like they're trying to control you and get inside of
- 15:50your head. Yeah, this is what a lot of them
- 15:54would do. Yes, they will lie through their
- 15:58teeth. Yes, through, through.
- 15:59I used to have a gap right here till I got it till I got these.
- 16:01These crowns lie through the gap right in their mouth.
- 16:04They lie through their teeth even They lie through their
- 16:06teeth even if there's no gap. The voodoo doll cracks me up
- 16:13more than the Ouija board. Yeah, sometimes.
- 16:16Look, if y'all ever break up with your narcissistic ex,
- 16:19right? If y'all ever break up with
- 16:20them, you leave them, right? Do not leave a lock of your hair
- 16:23behind. Take outlook, vacuum it.
- 16:26Get somebody to come cleanse the apartment because they will put
- 16:28your, they will take a, a tuft of your hair and put it on a
- 16:32little voodoo doll and start fucking with you.
- 16:34Don't let them do that. Y'all don't let them do that.
- 16:40Yes, they always flip the script.
- 16:43I'm on the separation divorce process.
- 16:45Impossible to block, but the boundaries must be high and firm
- 16:47if they want to trap you again with grim words.
- 16:51Yo, yeah, they, they absolutely want to trap, try to trap you
- 16:53again. Y'all do not let them come back
- 16:55into your life because the more you let them come back, the
- 16:57worse they'll treat you. You know, I know people have
- 17:00this, you have it in your minds. They're like, well, maybe this
- 17:02maybe this time will be different.
- 17:04Why would this time be different?
- 17:05You know, I feel like in their minds, they don't think it's it
- 17:08needs to be different because you accepted me when it wasn't
- 17:11different. You accepted me when things you
- 17:14accepted me when things were bad.
- 17:16So it's like I don't need things don't necessarily need to be
- 17:19different because you accepted me while they were bad.
- 17:22So that can be the mentality of it as well, right?
- 17:25You mean or narcs depressed? I, I have, you know, I have
- 17:28clinical depression. So I don't know if every
- 17:31narcissist is depressed, but I would say a lot of narcissists
- 17:34suffer from, some suffer from some type of depression.
- 17:36I would say yes. He's still coming for me 14
- 17:44months after divorce. He really cannot stand and see
- 17:45me. Oh yeah, they want to see you
- 17:47happy again. They don't want to see you
- 17:48thriving you too. They don't want to see you
- 17:50thriving after the relationship because it makes them feel bad.
- 17:53They a lot of times they claim ownership of you, right?
- 17:57And because they're claiming it's own ownership of you, they
- 17:59don't like say, because they claim the ownership of you, they
- 18:02don't think you deserve to be happy without them.
- 18:05Like nobody gets to play with you, nobody gets to mess with
- 18:07you. It's kind of like they thank you
- 18:09a toy or whatever. So they claim this weird type of
- 18:12ownership over you to keep messing with your head in order
- 18:14to try to get you to keep coming back and forth to them.
- 18:17And like, if y'all have kids together, they're definitely
- 18:19trying to spread rumors to the kids to try to love bomb your
- 18:21kids, try to turn the kids against you.
- 18:23They'll keep messing with you. This is one of the things that
- 18:25they do. They'll keep messing with you.
- 18:27They'll do stuff like this over and over again because they're
- 18:29in their in their minds, it's a benefit to keep messing with
- 18:31you, right to do the good advice as always, appreciate it.
- 18:37Coercion common with narcissists?
- 18:38Yes, yes, actual coercion. It could be common with.
- 18:41It could be common with a lot of narcissistic people.
- 18:43Not every single one of them, of course, because No2 narcissists
- 18:45are the same. But it could be, you know,
- 18:48common commonality right there. He told our son he spent 20 K on
- 18:54his attorneys to keep me in court for the next two years.
- 18:56Is that true? What, is he lying to your kid?
- 18:59Why would he tell you something that like, this is weird right
- 19:01there. They, they tell, tell the kids
- 19:02that type of stuff is weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- 19:17They feel your successes are also theirs.
- 19:19Yes. If they can't take credit for
- 19:20your success, they try to hold you back from it, right.
- 19:23They try to take, they try to hold you back from this type of
- 19:26stuff right here. Do all narcissists cheat?
- 19:28So I can't speak for every single narcissist, but I say I
- 19:31would say most narcissists cheat.
- 19:32I don't think all narcissists cheat.
- 19:34You know, there are people going to just, like, lead us a lie.
- 19:36All of them cheat. Yeah, we don't.
- 19:37We haven't met or known every single narcissist.
- 19:39Some narcissists don't have the ability to cheat, right?
- 19:41Would they cheat? They could.
- 19:42Some of them, yeah. I don't think all narcissists
- 19:44cheat. Yeah, but I do have to hop off
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