They are on their phone constantly with other people, with other sources of supply, and treating you as if you do not exist. Or they are online, and you are online as well—but they don’t respond to you.
When you are expecting some kind of response, they make you feel ignored, and this ignorance is what kills your self-worth.
When a narcissist does this, they are essentially showing you that they don’t consider you an important part of their life—at least not the way you consider them. They don’t care about you. They don’t care about your presence. They don’t see you as a valuable person they are attached to. They just got your attention. They got you into the trap. They sealed the deal.
Now that you are “theirs,” they don’t have to care about anything else, because they know they have you. This is one of the ways they devalue you so that you keep begging, keep asking for attention, and keep questioning yourself:
What did I say wrong?
What did I do wrong that made you do this?
Why are you ignoring me?
Do I need to change my behavior for you to change?
For you to become the person you were in the early stages of the relationship?
That’s the kind of justification and rationalization that happens in your head when you’re victimized by this kind of devaluation.
Number Three: Sexting
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