If you are in a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), you may find that the relationship is less intimate than you thought it was. It is probably intense, time-consuming, long-lasting, and uses a great deal of your mental energy—but intense is not the same as intimate. An important test of intimacy is … Read more
How do narcissists do it? How do people with such absurd and damaging behaviors convince seemingly normal people to adore them, to view them as Mr. Perfect? Why do women fall in love with them? From the perfect, beautiful beginning to the ugly and painful end, it sometimes seems as if all narcissists read the … Read more
“Do not go gentle into that good night, / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ~Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” “Everything is possible for you, because you have the only two things worth having…beauty and youth” ~ … Read more
Breaking Up With A Narcissist Breaking up with a narcissist is an emotional roller coaster. If you have read other articles or received support from a therapist on how to break up with a narcissist, you will know that the only viable way to do this is with No Contact. However, this causes the narcissist … Read more
Can you make a narcissist jealous? They are jealous of anyone who has more resources than they do (such as status, power, beauty, money, success, etc). At the same time, they also have a strong belief that other people are jealous of them. Excessive levels of jealousy and envy are characteristic traits of narcissism. One way … Read more
How The Narcissist Uses Sex To Take/Keep Control The sexual attitudes of narcissists are most peculiar- they tend to be either hyperactive or hypoactive in making love. Generally, there are two types of narcissists: the somatic narcissist (hyperactive) and the cerebral narcissist (hypoactive). The somatic narcissist gains his ‘narcissistic supply’ from other people’s reactions to … Read more
Gift –giving for the narcissist in your life is easy… simply buy something that celebrates the individual-them! It is preferable to put their picture on it as just having their name engraved on a gift no longer suffices. From custom condoms featuring their face (seriously) to miniature dolls in their likeness, it’s all readily available … Read more
It might seem pretty easy to spot a narcissist- they are the ones who are ALWAYS the center of attention and will try to “best” anyone else who tries to talk about their own accomplishments. If someone says they won an award at work for their research, a narcissist will say they were nominated for … Read more
Why do narcissists lie? “Because they can”…as the cliché goes. Seriously, many narcissists do lie and they lie constantly. They lie about their education, they lie about their achievements, and they lie about extramarital affairs or what they had for dinner. If someone else is boasting about their 2012 Mercedes, a narcissist will claim (s)he … Read more