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It’s Not Your Twin Flame! You’re Being Abused!

The twin flame concept is an unstable and dangerous New Age cult that sugarcoats abuse.

Candace Ranee
4 min readMar 4, 2022
The Nightmare. Painting by Johann Heinrich Fussli (Henry Fuseli) (1741–1825), Swiss School, 1782. Goethe Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

When you’re in love with a narcissist you’re in a constant state of agony and desperation. You went from being held up on a pedestal to being cast aside like garbage almost overnight. You want so badly for that loving person they pretended to be in the beginning to come back.

The pain is indescribable.

The narcissist will gaslight you and viciously blame it on you. They tell you that you are the one that has changed and ask you why you’ve suddenly become so needy.

Every time you try to tell them how their actions make you feel you are met with contempt. They never take responsibility and all the problems in the relationship are shifted to you.

All of the intense gaslighting has caused you to doubt your reality and you begin to think that you really are the problem.

The narcissist may begin stonewalling you and giving you the silent treatment. They may even decide to ghost you or leave the relationship without warning.

The grief and heartache are unbearable. You begin to believe that something is wrong with you and that is why they left or why they now suddenly refuse to…

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Candace Ranee
Candace Ranee

Written by Candace Ranee

Candace studied Sociology at Bowling Green State University. She is a writer and a DV Survivor

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