“Hoovering”: The Sneaky Tactic Narcissists Use To Reel You Back In
How to spot it, deal with it and fight back.
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6 min readMay 1, 2023
The word “hoovering” originated from the Hoover vacuum cleaner because a narcissist will do just about everything to suck their partner back into the relationship if they leave or threaten to leave. There’s nothing about it that is loving. Instead, they use extreme forms of…