The narrative stretch in a relationship, friendship, or drama where one person systematically starts denying, minimising, and rewriting events until the other person can't trust their own recollection. A gaslight arc has a beginning — usually small dismissals — a middle where reality gets seriously blurry, and an end that's often messy. Framing it as an arc treats manipulation like the plot device it actually is: something with stages, escalation, and — hopefully — a resolution where the gaslit person figures out what's been happening.
Looking back at their whole relationship timeline, it was a textbook gaslight arc from month two.
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