Recovering and Healing After the Narcissist

It is surprising, but often the child that was raised in a narcissistic family with narcissistic parents and siblings returns to this environment that created his greatest suffering by marrying a narcissistic personality.

Since their personality structure is fixed and they believe they are perfect, your role with them is limited to being on the receiving end of their unconscious projections.

divided. Some spouses use every method to beg their narcissistic partner to reconsider. They don’t realize that the narcissist knew long ago that he was going to throw them overboard. They could no longer provide him with essential narcissistic supplies. Their brightness had faded. They were a burden he had to dispose of quickly. Coming on the heels of the shock and denial is a searing pain to the heart.

Those who are married to narcissists and precipitously discarded are flooded with disbelief

Some victims of narcissists obsess about how they could have behaved differently to help the narcissist change; however, changing a narcissist is clinically improbable since narcissistic personality is a highly fixed psychological disorder.

Some victims are in a state of shock, discovering that the narcissist has stolen many years from their lives.

Narcissists are great method actors who affect a persuasive pseudo-empathy that is brilliantly performed

The narcissist is secretly paranoid, experiencing an overwhelming fear that others will harm him. He fiercely protects himself from real and imagined enemies

As part of fulfilling his grandiose vision, the narcissist charms a new circle of people who will play their assigned parts as adoring followers and provide him with obedience, blind loyalty and selfless service.

narcissist charms a new circle