Narcissism

I Divorced a Diagnosed Narcissist

3 reasons the outcome will never be fair.

Colleen Sheehy Orme
Hello, Love
Published in
6 min readOct 30, 2020

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I don’t know why survivors of narcissistic abuse seek fairness but we do.

It’s a contradiction to the individual we are freeing ourselves from. There is nothing good, equal, or fair about the relationship with a narcissist. There never will be because it’s a relationship of opposites.

A relationship of emotional imbalance.

Nonetheless, we torture ourselves into believing when we leave them, there will finally be justice. That some type of rational equity will bubble to the surface.

It won’t.

But we do continue to look for some degree of fairness.

Some hope the narcissist will finally be exposed.

Not because we can’t get over the narcissist. We left this individual. We are happy to be free of them and their emotional abuse.

We look for validation because:

It will help us no longer feel crazy.

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Colleen Sheehy Orme
Hello, Love

National Relationship Columnist, Journalist & Former Business Columnist. I cover love, life, & relationships— #WomanResurrected colleen.sheehy.orme@gmail.com