WHY THEY WANT THE CHASE: How Pursuing a Narcissist Validates the Ab*se
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"If I’m still chasing, they must be worth it... right?"Wrong. As a self-aware narcissist, I’m telling you the truth about what happens in our heads when you pursue us after we’ve treated you like trash. To you, the chase is an act of love. To us, the chase is a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
When you chase a narcissist, you aren't showing them your value; you are showing them that their behavior has no consequences. Today, we are breaking down the "Forgiveness Trap" and why your silence is the only thing that actually forces a narcissist to face reality.IN THIS LIVE, WE DISCUSS:The Forgiveness Fallacy: Why chasing tells the narcissist that everything they did was "okay."The Ego Boost: How the chase fuels the narcissist's sense of superiority.The Power Shift: How you lose your leverage the moment you try to "fix" what they broke.Breaking the Cycle: How to stop the "chase reflex" and reclaim your dignity.Stop giving them the validation they didn't earn.
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| 0:00.0 | So you think you're fighting for your marriage. |
| 0:05.0 | You do, don't you? |
| 0:07.0 | You think you're showing them that your love is unconditional. |
| 0:11.0 | Like you think that narcissists, the toxic people just want unconditional love, |
| 0:15.0 | and you think that's enough for them. |
| 0:17.0 | But as someone that is diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, |
| 0:20.0 | I can tell you straight up right now. |
| 0:22.1 | When you chase after me, when you chase me after I've disrespected you, after I've done something to you, |
| 0:29.8 | after I've cheated on you, lied to you, manipulated you, whatever, I don't see love from you. |
| 0:35.6 | I see that as a permission slip to keep doing whatever I've been doing. |
| 0:39.3 | The more you chase, the more permission you give me to continue my toxic narcissistic behavior. |
| 0:44.3 | The more you chase after a narcissist, the more they feel like, well, it's okay because the black and white thinking, right? |
| 0:51.3 | It's truly black and white thinking. If you, like, think about like like this. If you chase a, like, if, in the mind of a narcissist, if everything is |
| 0:59.9 | either all good or all bad, then if you're chasing after me, right? If you, if you're chasing |
| 1:09.3 | after me, then it must be all good right think about it like that |
| 1:15.2 | if you're chasing me it must be all good because it can't be bad right because i wouldn't chase |
| 1:21.7 | after somebody that's bad i wouldn't do that that's not how my mind works right that's not how my mind that's not how |
| 1:28.3 | i operate in this space and whatnot so if you're thinking about like this that's the mentality |
| 1:33.4 | that's where it goes to right there that's how narcissistic people's minds work right there y'all |
| 1:37.6 | truly that's truly how it works you know the delusions are out of this world yeah the delusions |
| 1:43.5 | are completely out of this world so like, the delusions are completely out of this |
| 1:45.0 | world. So today, that's what we're talking about. You know, today we're talking about why |
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