If you’ve been trying to make sense of a relationship that feels like it keeps looping back on itself — intense closeness, then coldness, then somehow being pulled back in again — you’re not imagining a pattern. You’re describing one. It’s called the narcissistic abuse cycle, and once you can see its shape, a lot … Continue reading The Narcissistic Abuse Cycle: Love Bombing, Devaluation, and Discard Explained