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CW: narcissism and emotionally abusive friendship⠀ .⠀ "My former friend insisted that I was not being a good friend (aka. didn’t give him what he felt he was entitled to) but remained obsessed with me. He wanted to get together as often as possible and told me frequently how much he cared for and admired me. Yet he would lecture me periodically about how I wasn’t being a good friend to him and everything I had done to hurt him. At first, those lectures happened once or twice a year. By the end of the friendship, I sat through these lectures every week.⠀ ⠀ Over the years, I had to state boundaries with him over and over about a variety of things—touching, my time, etc. Every time I put up a boundary, he would question and test it, argue against it and make me justify it. After a certain amount of testing, he would generally accept the boundary, but not without periodically bringing up how the boundary wasn’t necessary and how much I had hurt him by putting the boundary in place.⠀ ⠀ Why did I put up with it for so long? There are several reasons, but one of them is that I bought into his ideas about what it means to be a good friend. That’s the weak spot—convincing me that I’m not being a good person, and that if only I do the things that a good person does, everything will be OK between us. And so I tried. I modified my behavior by expressing more gratitude, apologizing more often, saying certain things he wanted to hear, doing certain activities with him that he knew I didn’t want to do. And yet, I would be in the exact same place the very next time I saw him. It was as if all the things I did to try to please him went in one ear and out the other, that he literally did not remember."⠀ .⠀ Read the full post on my blog. Link in bio. I decided to post about this because it may help someone also dealing with a person in their life who exhibits less obvious forms of narcissism. I would love to hear from anyone who has experienced this, too.⠀ .⠀ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreadersofig #divination #spirituality #spiritualpractice #creativity #smallbusiness #narcissism #abuse #forgivingmyself #therapy #personalgrowth
This has been the year of absolutely falling in love with myself. Not in a way that I think I am perfect or better than other people. Rather, I am just SO DAMN HUMAN I love it and I can't get over it. Happy Pride, everyone. .⠀ ⠀ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreadersofig #divination #spirituality #spiritualpractice #creativity #smallbusiness
One of my favorite things about the Aquarian Tarot: everything is this faux-Medieval Art Deco...and then there's the space helmet. ⠀ .⠀ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreadersofig #divination #spirituality #spiritualpractice #creativity #smallbusiness #aquariantarot #sevenofcups
UNPOPULAR OPINION: I like decks with borders. It's not that I dislike decks without borders, and yes, sometimes there are ugly borders or unnecessarily huge borders or cards that are just so damn big that I am tempted to cut the borders off to make the deck easier to handle. But I appreciate borders. The energy of each card, whole and complete, inside its own universe.⠀ .⠀ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreadersofig #divination #spirituality #spiritualpractice #creativity #smallbusiness #tarotdelfuego

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