6. They believe that everything around them is a threat!
Although they are generally aware of how to recognize other people’s feelings toward them, they frequently misunderstand. Unless you speak about your feelings and emotions, narcissists aren’t able to perceive them.
If they are having a bad day and they are angry about something, even if you’re trying to make things right by saying “I love you,” they will misunderstand and everything will backfire. If your actions and words don’t match, the narcissist is likely to react incorrectly or get hostile. Because of this, narcissists frequently mistake and interpret others’ joking or sarcasm as a verbal insult. This is basically a trigger for them.
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