The final form of revenge?

I was with a narcissist for 6 years. Didn’t realize it until the relationship ended and started talking about my story to family, lawyers and even police… all who confirmed to me I’d been abused.

We’d had a child 3 months before he left and discarded both me and the child. I honestly believe he thought he was abused by me (because I didn’t give him enough attention, sex, warmth, respect).. yet if I were to talk about the abuse I suffered you would all understand why that behavior was hard for me… I tried… but you can’t have sex with someone who wants to murder you right?

Here’s my realization. The day he left, he just packed a bag and disappeared as if he was running for his life…from his “abuser”… I actually think he knew very well what he was doing. He’d threatened so many times that he would leave and I’d be a single mom, and he knew how hard that was because his mom had been a single parent.

I think he left as revenge. Against me, against women, against the wound his mom left behind.