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Updated 2 years ago,September 21, 2023
This article contains some spoilers.
They weaponize pity ploys and false promises that they will change to keep you ensnared in the relationship.
He only made this mistake of sexual indiscretion once, he claims, until we find out differently.
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The trauma bonding and sunk cost fallacy in a relationship with a narcissistic gaslighter can be extreme.
The character of Olivia is a complex one.
For a narcissist, image is everything.
Its not about authentic connection but how you look to society.
If a narcissistic person is investing in you, they have a darker and deeper agenda than love.
In Wilderness, the costs of staying with a narcissistic partner are extreme because the storyline is extreme.
As she tells her husband, You know, theres a funny side to this somewhere.
Me, stuck inside these four walls.
Keeping house like some relic of the 50s.
While hes prowling around, shes kept compliant and dormant.
You wont be yourself by the end of a relationship with a narcissist.
Olivia is a morally complicated character who vacillates between being a sympathetic victim and a cold-hearted predator herself.
Wilderness is easy to binge and hard to forget.
But she has to sacrifice almost everything to get there.
