Childbirth PTSD evaluation

Pain severity and interference

Measure strategies for handling feelings

Structured PTSD diagnostic interview

Wellbeing assessment

Love is not bonding for a narcissist

A narcissist does not experience love as emotional attachment. Love, to them, is possession, validation, and control.

What you called love, they called supply

Attention, admiration, obedience, and emotional reactions are not expressions of love for them. They are fuel.

Narcissists do not miss people

They miss how people made them feel about themselves. The person is interchangeable. The feeling is not.

Discard does not mean you were replaceable

It means you were emotionally depleted. You stopped feeding their ego the way you once did.

They never bond to who you are

They bond to the version of power, importance, or superiority they felt while being with you.

Moving on quickly is not healing

It is emotional avoidance. Narcissists replace instead of process.

They do not remember love stories

They remember moments where they felt admired, dominant, or in control.

When they come back, it is not nostalgia

It is a supply check. They are testing whether access is still possible.

Relationship history gets rewritten

Not to understand what happened, but to protect their ego from guilt or shame.

Narcissists do not grieve

They substitute. One connection is swapped for another without emotional reflection.

Your pain is deep because your love was real

Their coldness feels brutal because it is. Emotional empathy is not their strength.

Obsession is confused with love

Once obsession fades, interest fades with it.

Discard is not a verdict on your worth

It is a sign you stopped serving their emotional needs.

Wanting them to remember you is trauma bonding

It feels like love, but it is your nervous system seeking validation.

Healing starts with a harder question

Not “Do they miss me?”

But “Why did I stay when they showed me who they were?”