Male Bonding

The Narcissist

As she walked into the restaurant to have lunch with her friend, she glanced around and noticed the guy on a date with a young woman.

Reflecting on the brief history they’d had together where he had pigeonholed her away from friendship, isolated and limited their interactions to only short texts and intimacy in the bedroom, and abruptly pushed her away energetically when they briefly encountered each other in public, she realized that breaking things off with him had been the best thing for her to do to reclaim her own sense of power, sanctity, and emotional security.

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