If you know a narcissist, then you likely have experienced one of the most common punishment from the narc, the silent treatment. Punishment from the narcissist is how they control and manipulate people in their lives when they aren’t getting their way. Narcissist punishment tactics are also used as a way to protect against narcissistic injury and shame. If you think about how the narcissist ignoring me again is a common thing you tell yourself, then you are familiar with the silent treatment in relationships from the narcissist. Narcissists like to control and manipulate and why the narcissist punishes you is not because of anything you did. Reasons why narcissists punish is because they are trying to protect themselves from narcissistic injury. They have fragile senses of self and they must always protect through defense mechanisms. This is why relationships with narcissists are abusive relationships. Thy think only of themselves and don’t care how it affects others. So if you have been the recipient of the silent treatment, you might wonder, how long does the silent treatment last because the narcissist ignoring me again. The silent treatment lasts as long as the narcissists needs it to as a way to protect themselves. How to deal with silent treatment? You continue you living your life and don’t focus on the narcissist or wonder why is the narcissist ignoring me? This just puts the power in the hands of the narcissist and leads to them engaging in the silent treatment even longer. If you refill the narcissist supply then you keep the narcissist silent treatment lasting longer. The narcissist not talking to me is one of many signs of emotional abuse that you are being subjected to. Don’t keep the power in the hands of the narcissist? Why do I deserve the silent treatment and why do I deserve the silence? You don’t! Until you realize you are not the reason the narcissist is not talking to you, you will feel the need to apologize or think of something that you did wrong. The silent treatment from the narcissist is not about you but about them. In this video I discuss how you can sit out the silent treatment and not focus on when it will end. Only the narcissist has that answer and they would never share it with you because that would change the power differential.
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