Living with a Narcissist

 Early on in my relationship, I had seen red-flags of the behavior. But being the optimistic I was at that time, I thought everything will fall in place. Least did I know that it would never be the case. Immediately after our engagement, I had an ice-breaker date. I had slipped off to a hill station near the place where she studied. We were living in two separate cities separated by 12 hours train journey at that time.  We had a fun time that day. I never knew that I was actually digging my hole in the ground. When the meet happened and we retired to our respective places, there was an expectation brewing from the other end that I will coddle her.  After the date, there were lot of phone calls and she would call frequently when she did not get thru me. I did not think of it that much. One day I was riding to home after work when she called me. My mobile was in my pocket and I couldn't feel the vibration. There were continuous calls and there was no respite to it. I felt t...

27th Feb 2025 Me and the little one are going to our hometown to attend a function tomorrow. Till now my partner has shown no interest whatsoever in the trip apart from the fact that she did not have any issues for the trip as long as she doesn't have to come along- she was going with her gal pals for trekking over the same days.. I thought, ‘Okay, so we are doing this and prepared accordingly.’ She was engrossed in her work the whole day and was ranting about her changing a project and how it would affect her career. I was thinking at that time, ‘You are making me listen to your rant, but never even once have you inquired about the difficulties I was facing when I was made to do the same thing’- and that is absolutely fine. I don’t complain about it as she does when I don't listen to these oral diarrhea.  Then out of the blue, she suddenly asks- ‘Where are you staying?’  I said,  ‘ABCD resort’. She exploded suddenly and said- ‘Oh!! When you go by yourself and parents you...