What Do Narcissists Feel When You Go No Contact With Them?
What do Narcissists feel when you go No Contact with them? When you decide to finally take that crucial, challenging, and tough step to finally cut ties completely by going off reach and having no contact with the narcissist, how would a narcissist feel?
If you are rethinking this, here are possible explanations of the emotions that the narcissist in your life might feel when you have no contact with them.
What does going no contact mean?
Going no contact refers to completely going off contact with someone or an off-reach approach with them. It can be done by deleting or blocking them and cutting off all sorts of communication. You may no longer interact with that person in any form. No contact is generally applied with someone you have had close relations with and need to part ways with them for good.
This decision of going no contact with someone is often made to discard them completely from your life and maintain your boundaries, protect your emotional and mental well-being along with maintaining your physical health, disconnect from toxic relationships, or find your individuality in an abusive relationship.
Going off-reach with someone is often done by deleting or blocking them on social media, blocking their phone number, not visiting places that you expect them to be, or even going to extreme limits like switching your grocery stores, taking different metros, or avoiding any activity that you think you might bump into them. This ensures that you keep your distance from them to ease the revenge phase for the hurt they have caused.
Going No Contact with a narcissist includes no physical contact,
- No contacting or staying in touch
- No calls, texts, and no connections through social media
- No casual meetups or encounters
- No more being friends with them
- No more exchanging gifts
- Not even meeting them through the mutual social group or gatherings or even family
Why would you wish to go no contact with the narcissist?
When you are done with the narcissist’s manipulation and abuse, it is when you wish to escape the abusive atmosphere. Now it is impossible to get rid of the narcissist completely. Simply asking them to never contact you would not do much. They might be constantly breaking your boundaries by contacting you in one way or another. They might hoover around trying to get back with you.
So the only plausible way to completely discard them from your life is by going no contact and blocking them all the way from your life. This can also be a sort of revenge not with violence but with actions. And one such action is ignoring them by limiting yourself to them. Breaking off contact or going completely no contact with them.
The “No contact” is your way of saying “Just Not anymore” to the narcissistic abuse, the violence in case, the manipulative tactics, and being used as a pawn. The “No Contact phase” means going off-reach with them be it by deleting or blocking them on social media, blocking their phone number, and even giving them the silent treatment.
Mistakes to avoid when going no contact with the narcissist
- The urge or need to seek closure
- Breaking the no-contact rule to reinforce the no-contact rule
- Spying through social media
- Convincing yourself to get back with them through some excuses
- Believing that the narcissist is changed
- Being alone or without any support while reinforcing the no-contact rule
- Not falling for their tricks like hoovering, chasing, or reappearing
If they leave you and you decide to go no contact with them, then their probable reaction is to keep you in the toxic loop and keep you as their back supply option. But if it is you who left them and despite that, you decide to go no-contact with the narcissist, then be ready for a game of vengeance as they feel you have too much power and control over them or they would just behave as if they do not care at all as they do not like at being at anyone’s mercy.
When they feel you have too much control over them by going no contact, this is when they decide to seek an act of revenge, hurt you emotionally, and get a reaction from you.
Let us know what a narcissist might feel when you go no contact with them,
What Do Narcissists Feel When You Go No Contact With Them?
A narcissist may feel many emotions and have multiple emotional responses when they are put through no contact. They may have multiple reactions in the initial phase like frustration, helplessness, rage, confusion, and resentment.
Going no contact with the narcissist may trigger many negative emotional reactions like feeling helpless, rejected, and powerless. To determine a specific reaction that may be common for all narcissists, as different individuals have different emotional reactions and different defense mechanisms when they face an uncertain and disliked situation.
The reaction and feelings may also vary depending upon how attached to that person when no contact is initiated.
The narcissist might initially try to regain the contact and would deny accepting your decision. They may still hoover around to convince you to get back with them. They may call you text you or show in in-person persistently. If nothing works, the narcissist might still not give up.
They may resort to contacting you through mutual friends, family, or anyone who may be linked to both of you. They may manipulate you and guilt-trip you, gaslight you, or blackmail you. They might not stop contacting you out of the fear of being abandoned and left out. They may be insecure and might even doubt their self-worth.
After a while, the narcissist may stop going after you (their ex), and be indifferent toward you as they may have found an alternate source of narcissistic supply by that time. They may use their new partner or new victim as a defense mechanism to overcome the rejection that they may have faced from their old partner (you).
Narcissists may be angry first and foremost by the thought that they may no longer be able to contact you. They may also seek revenge for such an action taken by their partners.
Even after persistent efforts, if their partners do not agree to get back to them, they may quickly move on to their next partners within no time. The most important thing for a narcissist is their narcissistic supply, and thus they may do anything to gain that.
Once they are rejected by you, you may never hear from them as this action of yours has hurt their feelings and most importantly their ego. They may move on to their next victim within a blink and may have a relationship with them without grieving about their past relationship.
It does not take long for a narcissist to move on from their previous partner to a new partner to obtain their narcissistic supply. Narcissists can be quick as a flash to move on to a new partner after you start maintaining your no-contact boundaries just to make you jealous. If this happens and you find the narcissist with a new partner, think it’s a blessing in disguise as you would be safe from narcissistic hoovering which can be very irritating and annoying for you.
Narcissists can easily detach themselves from emotions and relationships and thus they can move from one partner to another to gain a narcissistic supply, which is important for them to thrive and lead a successful life.
How does a Narcissist respond to No Contact?
Narcissists are multi-faceted individuals and their reactions would also differ from the conventional reactions and most common ones. Narcissists constantly juggle between being a super confident self on the outside and a gloomy, undermined, and highly doubted inadequate self on the inside.
They already have a pre-existent constant fear that they might be disliked, and rejected by others or they might be repudiated by them if they do not maintain their grandiose self-image. So when you go no-contact with a narcissist they would act all mighty on the outside, but on the inside; they might be bursting with anger, or a fear of abandonment, or a hailstorm of revenge, anything is possible. There are a few more plausible reactions, which are discussed below,
- Acting like you never mattered to them
- Getting Angry
- Ignoring the no-contact boundary
- Criticizing you to others
- Making up emergencies
- Stalking
- Making you feel Guilty
- Begging
- Contacting you through friends and family
- They would seek out other people
Final Thoughts
Narcissists lack empathy and an emotional connection in the relationship. So expecting a genuine emotional reaction from them might not be worth it. Their emotional responses may vary and would be dependent on their individual choice and interests.
They may never repent or feel guilty. Nor they may understand their fault, instead, they may move on to their next partner within no time. Thus you may expect an intense or a moderate emotional response or even no response at all from the narcissist depending upon the relationship you had with them.
From Relationship, Depression, and Personality Disorder to Narcissistic problems, I have helped a lot of people find their solutions. Upon gathering a number of common problems that people face, I decided to put the information on this blog so that anyone can get their answers easily.
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