Narc’s response when I asked them to go to therapy

This was over discord so it’s verbatim: “I do as a matter of fact care about my impact on others. Always have. Therapy is the only way to prove that? that would be news to me. It's free and remote its also time and mental energy, never have much time, def didn't have much mental.energy when I stopped talking to you. I wasn't recovering in the singular way you wanted me to and I don't particularly feel bad about that.“

lmao. I could totally see myself apologizing to them and backpedaling feeling anxious about making them mad if they’d said this while I was still in their thrall. Grateful to now be able to see this as the manipulation it is.