A narcissist will use antagonistic blocking to portray you in a negative light. They will create a situation to make you upset, agitated, angry, or defensive to get you to engage with them. But the moment you are about to send your message, they will block you so you can't say anything.
They use blocking you on social media as a way to show they are unhappy with you but don't actually confront the actual issue. The narcissist is more than willing to block you on social media because they are passive-aggressive and don't know how to appropriately confront issues.
To a narcissist, being blocked is a huge rejection. It makes them irrelevant, unimportant. They wish to make you feel that way, either as a punishment for their feelings of irrelevance or, if they feel you slipping away, they'll reject you before you reject them.
It is impossible to predict with certainty how long a narcissist ex will take to unblock you, or if they ever will. Narcissists tend to be unpredictable, and their behavior is often influenced by their own self-interest rather than others' feelings or needs.
So, in short, the answer is yes, a narcissist will continue to come back after “no contact” until their targets cut off all forms of narcissistic supply, leaving them no choice but to go find other prey upon which to feed.
If you were having an electronic disagreement, argument, heated conversation, etc., with a narcissist and they felt like they were losing power and control over the situation, they might block you to prevent you from causing a narcissistic injury (ego injury) and to regain a sense of power and control.
If you do enough research, you will want to block that person and keep him/her blocked forever. If you keep hoping for the unblocking, that will only happen at the convenience of the narcissist.
Discard/Rejection: When the narcissist gets bored or decides the person is no longer useful enough to them, they'll often end the relationship and 'discard' the person. Sometimes, this ending is final.
Daramus lists some reasons why a person with narcissistic tendencies might discard you: You were too difficult for them to control. You were easily manipulated by them, causing them to look down upon you. You no longer fuel their ego, so they've moved on to someone else who can supply what they need.
We've all experienced the rush of power that comes with blocking someone, but we must also consider the impact it has on the other person. The psychology of blocking someone can evoke indignation and a sense of rejection, reminiscent of the social dynamics of high school.
Being ignored or blocked can both be perceived as a threat to a narcissist's ego and self-esteem, as it may make them feel rejected and unimportant. However, being ignored is generally more likely to bother a narcissist than being blocked.
A narcissist has been known to stop hoovering because they can't make it past the victim's boundaries, because they've found a new source of narcissistic supply, and because they are trying to manipulate the victim into crawling back to them by making them feel inadequate, isolated, and alone.
How Long Can a Narcissist Go With No Contact Before They Reach Back Out To You? Unfortunately, there's no good answer to that question. Some can return right after a breakup, while others may take months or years.
However, the next phase of the narcissistic abuse cycle is devaluation in which the narcissist removes their partner from the pedestal. Now, the partner will feel worthless as the narcissist begins to put them down, possibly by using verbal or physical abuse and physical intimacy as a weapon.
The clearest sign of a discard is when they leave. Narcissists stop contacting you, and there is no explanation. Narcissistic ghosting is a push-pull game, where they push you away, hoping you'll pull back.
Narcissists may still think about you after they have discarded you, but probably not in a positive light. They may tell people how “crazy” or “abusive” you were and only think about all the reasons why they had to discard you.
They ignore you because they want to control you. One of the main reasons why a narcissist ignores you is that they want to control you. More likely, they want to regain control of you. A narcissist uses ignoring people as a way to punish them.
Unfortunately for a narcissist, she says, the next person will always end up being boring because time breeds familiarity, requiring the narcissist to look for something new. "They are always waiting for the next new thing," she adds. "You are not boring, narcissists are just bored with everything."
Once they don't need you to fuel their ego anymore, a narcissist will discard and abandon you. Also, if you decide to stand for yourself, set boundaries, and ask for reciprocity, a narcissist will discard you with no apology, empathy, or remorse.
If you haven't blocked them, a narcissist will send a random text out of the blue, usually one word. They do this to see if they can elicit a response. When you respond to their text, they disappear. This is another way to hurt and devalue you.
They don't want people to know how dishonest they are. Also they are often involved in illegal activities so they don't want the authorities to see what they look like. So posting pictures makes them nervous. Fear and paranoia of people outing them.
Blocking a narcissist is not the move if you want them to improve. If your goal here is to get the narcissist to realize what they've been doing wrong and change, blocking them is unlikely to work.
Narcissists think that they will always be entitled to your love and support. You belong to him and no one else. They'll feel angry that you betrayed him. So when they see that you have moved on with your life without them in it, they'll feel robbed of something that he thinks belongs to them.