Free or Nearly Free Paleo Diet Cookbooks on Amazon
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First, you will need to download the free kindle reading app for your computer. You can find it here:
Amazon.com - Read eBooks using the FREE Kindle Reading App on Most Devices
Next, check out the cool books below. At the time I wrote this, they are all 99 cents or free. If they pop up in price it is because the publisher was running a promotion for a limited time. Why do publishers give away free books? They would like you to review them once you have read them. They can’t require you to review them though, so they just offer some free hoping you will review them.
When you find a book you want, click “buy now with 1 click” and use the pulldown box to say where you want it sent. Your book will arrive and you can read it. You do NOT need kindle unlimited. Amazon wants people to buy kindle unlimited, so they make that the first choice when downloading the book, the “buy now with 1 click” button is just below it.
Here are the bargains I found today:
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Your Narc Has Cancer!
You are relaxing one day and get a call from your long lost narc's cousin. She says your narc was diagnosed with cancer and she just thought you should know. She said the narc is very ill and they are all worried.
How do you react?
If you are no contact, your response is:
I hope you understand that I am no contact with the person you are speaking of, and because of that, I can't listen to this call. I hope you understand. CLICK.
I know it sounds harsh, but no contact means no talking about the person, no speaking their name, no listening to other people talk about them. It means the person does not exist to you. You cannot break your no contact for any reason...even cancer.
If you are low contact, you need to do some further thinking on this one. First off, is it true or is it "bait" to get you to spend more time in the presence of the narc. Narcs can and do lie about illness to get attention. This is pretty easy to figure out. Ask what Dr they are seeing. Ask if they are seeing an oncologist and which practice and which doctor. If you choose, you can even trick them and ask if they are seeing a nephrologist (a kidney specialist) for their brain cancer.
When you get the call, ask questions. The person on the other line may or may not have dug deep, but ask if they offered to take the person to their doctor's appointment. Ask if they think the narc would agree to a family meeting with the doctor so that everyone can know what the plan is for the treatment and they won't have to keep bothering the narc asking about treatment.
Narcs can be creative. I met a narc once whose Doctor did not exist and who only talked to the family via text message when the patient was at appointments. Doctors do not text medical information. They aren't allowed, yet this person had everyone believing she was dying of cancer.
Our goal is not to be mean to a person who is actually diagnosed with a disease or illness. Our goal is to be aware that narcs make up illnesses to bait us into coming back into their lives. By intercepting the person that delivers the message and asking them all kinds of questions, you take the focus off of you and put it back onto the narc.
If your narc has a disease or illness, I am sorry, and I wish you the best in dealing with it, but if your narc is trying to bait you, please take some time and ask questions and get other people to ask questions. The more details that are required from the narc, the more chances they have to slip up.
Key Point #3 The Cheating Narcissist Who Wants You Back
I had a friend one time go through a really rough divorce from a narc. They were in their late 30's and she found out he was seeing an 18 year old who was living on her own. When confronted, he left and she began divorce proceedings. Divorce in that state was not the most difficult around, but there was a process and it was not immediate.
My friend would phone me and tell me all about her husband wanting to get back with her. He would tell her on the phone that he made a huge mistake, that he wanted to come "talk". These talks always ended in sex, then he would go back to his girlfriend's house. She would then phone me saying things like, "Guess what, my husband said his New Year's Resolution is to come home to me!"
At the time, I wanted to smack her. The narc was getting sex from two women and stringing her along, keeping her from meeting anyone else with his promises to get back together. For some reason, she could not see through his lies. She could not see that she was being used for sex and that he didn't want her to move on and find someone who loved her for who she was.
So what do you do if your narc leaves you for someone, then contacts you and says he is torn between the two of you?
He may blame you and this is typical, but it is not your fault. His lack of integrity has nothing to do with you, it is HIS or HER lack of integrity. Nothing you did made your partner sleep with someone else.
So what do you do when your cheating narc contacts you and says he still loves you and somehow wants to make it work? You need to realize what he is doing. I know part of you wants to get even with the new supply and sleep with him just so he cheats on her too, but that will do no good for any of you except the narc. Do NOT sleep with him.
If your narc says he is torn and he wants to make things work out with you, give him some rules.
Rule #1 You cannot live with another person while working on a relationship.
This rule is not open to interpretation. He must move out of the new lover's space before he can begin to work on things with you. He will have a million reasons why this rule does not apply to him, but it is the simplest and most basic rule. You deserve someone who loves you and you alone, not someone who spends their life cheating on you.
Rule #2 No sex
This is the hardest one because 9 times out of 10, the narc is using you for sex that he or she is not getting from the new supply. If your narc moves out of the new supply's house and you do want to work things out, you must work on the relationship without sex before adding it back in. Tell him or her that you have taken a year vow of celibacy and that you have no intent on sleeping with anyone prior to that vow being up. A person who wants to be with you will wait for you. A narc who is using you for sex will try to get you to break that vow because they want sex and not the relationship.
Narcs have trouble with day to day boredom. They want new and exciting all the time, by forcing them into the day to day "boredom" the true colors will show.
Rule #3 Public dates only for 9 months.
If the cheating narc wants to work on your relationship, they need to take you to public places and the costs of dinners etc, needs to be on them. You are not the narc's wallet at this point, he or she is trying to win you back, so it's not going to be on your dime and you are best off to keep things in public. This way, you are lessening the chances that the narc is going to try to bring over too much beer, get you emotional then have sex.
Rule #4 The narc may not see anyone else
If your narc has cheated on you, you have every right to spy to find out if they are seeing others during this "win me back" phase. This phase lasts for a year, and if your narc has gone that year without cheating on you, then you can start to relax the rules, but chances are, the narc isn't going to last a year without cheating, and you have every right to spy during this year to see if he or she is lying. They broke your trust. You did not cheat. You deserve to know if the narc is really changing or not.
I know these sound harsh, but if you don't want a lifetime of being worried that you may have an STD, you need to show the narc that you are not going to put up with any cheating at all. You need full access to their phone and email during this time and you need to know where he or she is when they are not at home. This will not stop a true narc from cheating, but it could prove to you that this narc is not worth your time and that you deserve someone who loves you and someone who feels that you are enough.
You deserve someone who feels that you are enough.
For more support, read How to Get Over the Narc
Key Point #2 Does the Narcissist Miss You?
This is a complicated answer. First off, if you are asking this question, first ask yourself if you are projecting your feelings onto the narcissist. Do you miss the narcissist and wish they miss you? This is a dangerous situation, because you are vulnerable when you feel this way. The first step is to realize that you miss the lie you were sold, not the narcissist himself. The lie you were sold is NOT the narcissist, but the persona he or she made up to catch you.
Narcissist do not feel emotions they way normal people do. A narcissists acts from ego, and does not experience the loss and longing that you feel.
You feel a sense of sadness and longing for the perfect person you first met. You want that relationship back, you miss the lie you were sold. So what does a narcissist feel when you initiate no contact?
Some narcissists feel anger when you initiate no contact. This reaction can be the same no matter who the narcissist is in your life. I made the mistake of telling my narcissist that I was no longer speaking to her, and her initial reaction was to send me back an email with the heading "Drama Queen". I did not read it. I deleted it because I said I was going no contact and I meant it. My narcissist was trying to blame me for the no contact out of anger. Your narc can show the anger, or they can hide it. If your narc shows anger with violence, please immediately phone the police. This is not something to play with, it is a dangerous person that can be capable of hurting you. The narcissist felt you were their property or under their control and you just set a boundary. This is going to make the narcissist angry.
The anger can cause the narc to decide to implement revenge motives. Please be careful of these. Revenge motives can vary by the narc. While one may decide to try to win you back, another may decide to try to beat some sense into you. Either way, you can't fall for these tricks. You set the boundary, the narcissist will try to get you to remove that boundary because the narcissist believes you are an extension of him or her and therefore incapable of independent thought. A narcissist believes they are god's gift to you, and therefore you need to come to your senses and fall back into line. The fact that you refuse makes him or her angry.
Out of this anger, the narc might try to allow you to go no contact and to refuse to talk to you also. The narcissist does not miss you, but they know that you miss them and they plan to use this against you! By withdrawing all contact, the narcissist believes you will realize that he or she is god's gift to you and you will come running back. If your narc gives you the silent treatment, consider yourself lucky and make sure you block all avenues of contact.
If you have not blocked all avenues of contact, you are not truly no contact, you are playing games trying to win the narc back. I know that is hard to hear, but unless you have kids with your narc and are required to have some form of communications (god bless you), you cannot say you are no contact and have anything unblocked.
Leaving any avenue open is setting you up for heartbreak! When the narc does not contact you, the victim, you begin to feel rejected and become in danger of contacting the narc yourself! Do not fall for this. By leaving even one open avenue, you are setting yourself up to feel like it was all your fault and that is exactly what the narc wants.
Some may be involved with a narc who comes to you and states that they are truly changed. They have seen the error of their ways! They want to come back to you, the love of their life and they miss you. They promise to change, they promise to go back to being the made up lie they sold you. They will promise anything to get you to take them back again! Do not fall for it, in their mind, they want to come back to you not because they miss you, but because getting new supply will cost time and money and they want something from you now. The narc knows what you want and will try to become that at least until they can find new supply and break your heart again.
So no, the narcissist does not miss you in the way that you miss him or her. If the narc is your parent, I encourage you to read my article on mourning the mom or dad you always wanted and never had.
If the narc is a partner, I just want to tell you that you are worth more than this! You deserve someone who loves you and wants to be with you. Someone who wants to learn about you over time and wants to see you happy. Someone who wants to learn your favorite color and favorite activities.
And one last question. What would happen if the person who wants to love you for who you are comes along and stumbles across you and the narc? What if he or she thinks, "Oh, they are in a relationship, so I guess I will have to find someone else". I encourage you not to waste your time with someone who is not right for you.
For more support read How to Get Over the Narc
Saturday, April 1, 2017
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