TEN REASONS NARCISSISTS CUT YOU OFF ABRUPTLY

By: Khalif Barkhadle,
Digital Journalist

Published On: 17th February 2025

Narcissists often end relationships abruptly, without any warning or explanation. And if they do explain, it is typically vague, self-serving, or full of blaming and shaming, leaving you feeling responsible, confused, and unworthy. They may offer you another chance to prove yourself, but often they remain cold and detached, quickly moving on to someone else as though you never mattered to them.

Number one is punishment for not living up to their unrealistic fantasies.
When a narcissist realizes that you’re a real person and you don’t fit perfectly with the fantasy image that they’ve created in their mind of the perfect partner, they start punishing you. But it’s not actually about you. To them, you’re just an avatar of someone in their mind, and the relationship is just a projection of their fairy-tale vision of a relationship.

So, when you fail to live up to these delusional expectations, the narcissist gets disappointed. They withdraw affection, lash out, and punish you. And it’s just their pattern. They start by putting every partner on a pedestal, making them their new soulmate, the center of their universe, just like they did with you.

But as the relationship gets real, the less it matches their fantasy world and the more they get disillusioned and start punishing you. Eventually, they may discard you and transfer their fantasy onto…