Reason number two: you were the consequence of their emotional vampirism while their presence taught you energetic independence. Narcissists are emotional vampires who drain others to fuel their empty core. They move through relationships, leaving destruction in their wake, taking what they need and discarding what remains. But the universe, or God, has a way of balancing these scales. You were that balance. You entered their life as the person who would drain them back—not through manipulation or cruelty, but through your very nature.
How? Your need for genuine connection, emotional intimacy, and authentic love created demands they could not meet. Your standards for how you deserved to be treated became their karmic burden. While they expected to drain you completely, you unknowingly drained them of something far more valuable: their ability to maintain their illusions. Your consistent authenticity forced them to work harder to sustain their false self. Your emotional needs became the karmic debt payments they could never fully make.
During this process, they were inadvertently teaching you about energetic sovereignty. Their constant attempts to drain your energy forced you to develop spiritual boundaries you never knew you needed. Their emotional vampirism taught you to recognize when someone was taking more than they were giving. Their inability to reciprocate your emotional investments showed you the importance of energetic balance in relationships. The pain you experienced from that draining behavior was not meaningless; it was some sort of training. You learned to protect your energy, recognize energetic vampires immediately, and never again give more than you receive. While you were their karma, forcing them to confront their emotional emptiness, they were showing you—without wanting to—how to become energetically self-sufficient.
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