3. They want to control you!
Another major red flag when it comes to narcissists, is manipulation and their need for control. In most cases, they demand things, and because they are mostly unhappy with how their lives unfold, they try to make others feel miserable too.
They are constantly plotting ways to make their lives easier, and when it doesn’t end the way they want it to, they try to manipulate others into giving them what they want. If you don’t “behave” and you dare to disagree with them, a narcissist will instantly get mad at you.
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Dear M.G.,
Great, helpful article. If your true mission is narcissist awareness, please consider changing one of the two stock images in the article to that of a man gaslighting a woman. It is a stereotype that women are controlling over men and their husbands, but the scenario can also be flipped with the woman being put under narcissistic abuse in a familial or romantic relationship with a male identifying person. Please consider bringing awareness to narcissistic personality disorder being possible in both men and women. Would you consider making the first of the two stock photos in the article the one depicting a male with NPD and a female victim of the abuse to help correct this cultural misconception between gender and NPD. This could help so many women not talk themselves out of identifying a person in their lives with NPD!!
Thank you for sending this email about narcissism. Sadly a close female family member is married to a narcissist. She is so battered that she doesn’t realize how entrenched she is in toxic relationship. She knows she’s unhappy but has no fight left in her. She won’t confide in me anymore because he has poisoned her against me. Again thank you so much for this advice