Why Do Narcissists Want YOU to Text First?
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This video explains why narcissists want you to be the one to break no contact after a toxic relationship. Understanding this behavior is key to avoiding further emotional abuse and navigating narcissism. Learn why you should never break no contact and text them first because it will set you up to be treated horribly. Thank you so much.
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| 0:00.0 | So, narcissists want you to be the one that reaches out to them. |
| 0:04.0 | They want you to be the one that breaks no contact, that breaks the contact barrier, that texts them first, that calls them first, that shows up to their job, emails them first. |
| 0:18.0 | Why do they want that though? Why is it so important to a lot of |
| 0:21.5 | narcissists that you be the one that reaches out first that's what we're talking |
| 0:25.7 | about today y'all if you're new here I'm Lee Hammock I'm a diagnose narcissist I |
| 0:29.4 | give you the perspective of a narcissist and yes y'all I just left the gym and I |
| 0:33.0 | had to get this video done so you gonna rock with me um but yeah a lot of times when you're dealing with |
| 0:39.5 | a narcissistic person you're choosing to go no contact or to heal or to finally set yourself free |
| 0:45.7 | you're going to deal with the narcissist that wants you to reach out first like and a lot of times |
| 0:52.2 | you do let's keep it real a lot of times when you're dealing with a narcissist |
| 0:56.5 | and you miss them or you love them you care about them you're trauma bottle to them whatever it is |
| 1:00.2 | you miss them and that's understandable it really is it's 100% understandable that you miss this person |
| 1:09.5 | that you shared love with you missed this person that you shared love with you missed this person that you |
| 1:13.8 | shared a heart with or a life with that you were trying to build a life together with this |
| 1:19.3 | person it makes sense that you missed them it absolutely does y'all my tank stop says i'm free |
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| 1:29.4 | This is I love me, self-love brand. |
| 1:33.6 | But yeah, that's what ends up happening. |
| 1:35.8 | It's okay to miss somebody that hurt you. |
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