A relationship with a narcissist is one in which your perspective, your needs, your reality are systematically subordinated to one person's version of events. It's often not recognized until after, when the patterns are legible from a distance. While inside, you are managing, accommodating, and slowly losing track of what you actually think.

Anonymous thoughts about narcissistic relationships posted here are from people who have emerged — and the specific process of reconstructing a self that was gradually dismantled.