Vanessa M. Reiser, LCSW

🎙️ DAVE AND I UNPACK THE @reelannmarieallison EPISODE
In this clip from Narcissistic Abuse with Vanessa Reiser, Dave and I talk about a truth that can be incredibly difficult to accept when you are trying to leave a narcissistic relationship:
You can get away the hard way, or the hard way.
There is no easy way out.
You can leave today and face the grief, fear, uncertainty, withdrawal, rebuilding, and discomfort that come with breaking a trauma bond.
Or you can leave years from now and face many of those same things, after giving the relationship even more of your time, energy, peace, and life.
That does not mean leaving is simple. It isn’t. People stay for complicated reasons, including children, finances, fear, culture, isolation, trauma bonding, and coercive control.
But waiting does not necessarily make the exit easier.
Sometimes the choice is not between hard and easy.
It is between hard now and hard later.
And time is one thing we never get back.
🎧 Dave and I continue unpacking my conversation with Ann Marie Allison, producer of You’re Dating a Narcissist, on Narcissistic Abuse with Vanessa Reiser. Link in bio.
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