My Ex-Narc move after 1.5 years, could I ask for your advice?
Firstly I just want to say I'm 100% over him, it was very hard in the beginning, I had to ask for help from these subs so often and thanks to everyone I'm in such a good place.
It's been almost 2 years since I've been no contact with him and I actually started dating out of nowhere someone that is treating me like golden and I will never let him down.
But out of a sudden, yesterday my ex-narc tried to follow me on IG and I rejected straight away, then last night he messaged me the below
"Sorry if I've bothered you that I reached out. I just wanted you to know that I probably owe you an apology. I'm in a happy relationship and I've learnt so much and a lot of the shit I was doing to you wasn't right and I can see that now. Hope you are okay and you're settled in to your new home and everything. I won't continue to bother you, have a good day.
I've deleted his message straight away because I'm still going to hold strong the no-contact and there's no gain in replying to him.
Why would he do this? Try to add on IG again and then message after I rejected if he's in a "healthy relationship"?
This is a 28y/o adult, I dated him for like 1 year and a bit and it was horrible, I don't think I've asked for help from forums/reddit so much as I have done with him, he would gaslit me, cheat, lie, manipulate, the whole manipulation thing that we're all familiar. Is this just another one of these manipulative traits?