![]() Honesty can impede their self-gratification and compromise their powerful persona, and they don’t like that. The rest of the time, they don’t consider it necessary or important to be all that honest. The only time a narcissist has any interest in telling the truth is when it will serve them or cost them nothing to do so. Life is a game to narcissists – a game they have to think they’re winning – and truth is one casualty in their game plan. They lie to get out of emotional responsibility. Narcissists lie to make themselves look good. From their perspective, you shouldn’t care - you should get it right like they do, and be more like they are. If you imply that anything is their responsibility, they give you excuses and lies, and often, if those fail to work, they will finally make it clear that the bottom line is they simply don’t care because they don’t have to, and the fact that you care is just unnecessary or wrong. (You may be told that you’re “choosing” to feel bad about the hurtful things they’ve done, and that it’s the wrong “choice”.) If caught doing something insensitive or selfish, they will tell you they “had to” do it because of someone or something else. If your feelings are hurt, it’s not their fault it’s your fault – for having feelings. ![]() ![]() To a narcissist, it’s not their fault they hurt you, it’s your fault for being hurt-able.
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