Due to extreme emotional neglect, narcissists feel empty inside. They were never seen or mirrored as they authentically were. Every time they expressed an authentic part of themselves, they were either shamed, ignored, ridiculed or attacked.
The narcissist’s True Self, at first gushing with life, eventually dried up. This brought the narcissist face-to-face with death, with the abyss inside.
Nobody can connect with someone who is dead inside. So the narcissist created a false self, which was fuelled by their imagination. That is, the narcissist dissociated from reality and dwelled in a fantasy-induced world.
The reason a narcissist flip-flops between wanting you and not wanting you is because you are a part of that fantasy-induced world.
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