Emotional manipulation is the act of changing a person’s perception of reality. It’s a tactic that toxic partners often use to get what they want in a relationship; they’ll say things like, “I don’t remember doing that. You’re making it…
Are you dating a married man? It can be an exciting, intense, and sometimes terrifying experience. One moment you think he loves you, and the next you feel like he doesn’t care about you at all. Here are the top…
Do you feel like some people are actively trying to get you angry? It sounds like they want to start a fight with you. They may even try to provoke you into saying something you’ll regret later. If you suspect…
Some people are just negative. They’re going through a tough time, and that’s tough. But that’s not always the case. In some situations, pessimistic people try to bring you down and ruin your sunny day. Here’s how to spot pessimists…
Start Breaking the Narcissist’s Grip As mentioned earlier, part of the abuser’s game is for narcissists to add more bricks to Rapunzel’s tower by blaming their targets. “If I were a better wife, friend, daughter, or employee, I wouldn’t have…
Key Points A young person whose mother has narcissistic personality disorder has a distorted outlook. Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy, among other traits. Once a person has been deceived,…
Personality disorders such as narcissism are characterized by distortions of healthy norms for feeling, thinking, and communicating. The most prominent distortions among narcissists are a comprehensive set of double standards and paradoxes. For example, people with narcissism demand attention but…
We are all capable of abuse when we feel frustrated or hurt. We may be guilty of criticizing, judging, withholding, and controlling, but some abusers, including narcissists, take abuse to a different level. Narcissistic abuse can be physical, mental, emotional,…
Narcissists live by an attention-hungry, image-driven code. If you crack their code, you may find that the narcissist in your life is less mysterious and more manageable. The boasting, contempt, fickleness, suspicion, and deceit that characterize many narcissists tend to…
Key Points Narcissists replace their true selves with an alter ego that is inflated, “above others,” self-obsessed, and extremely egotistical. Emotional manipulation is a form of ongoing manipulation and brainwashing that causes the victim to doubt themselves. While the narcissist…
