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@GuardianAngel..4 жыл бұрын
A narcissist is actually 3 people 1. The False Self 2. The Dark Entity 3. The Hurt Inner Child
@HerbalND4 жыл бұрын
Perfectly said.
@AliciaM55554 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@LisainTexas4 жыл бұрын
4. The narcissistic demons
@moralebooster84374 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@chaimomma91984 жыл бұрын
Misti Roberts they chose to ignore empathy. Just like ignoring morals.
@crystal106332 жыл бұрын
My favourite quote that kinda relates to this is “Don’t blame the clown for acting like a clown, ask yourself why you keep going to the circus 🎪 “
@corysmith34472 жыл бұрын
The guy whomade this video is a narccist, ask prof sam vakhim, 95% of psycholigists get their narrcsistic supply by calling others narccists and feeling powerful by evaluating them
@Shaqad562 жыл бұрын
I like that. I’ll remember it
@catmomjewett2 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome. Thanks for putting it out there.
@crisscateyes2 жыл бұрын
Love it. ❤️ It applies
@CarlosAlvarado-sf6km2 жыл бұрын
🎯🎯🎯
@JamminMammy6 ай бұрын
My mom always said “wherever there is mass confusion, therein lies the devil.”
@andreagrazianodibenedetto14645 ай бұрын
That is a great saying to remember. Thank you for sharing.
@jkayla_lashae5 ай бұрын
Woa
@1in1cog1nit1o14 ай бұрын
OMG. Clarifies so much. AWESOME QUOTE-THANK YOU!
@godzillamanstreb5244 ай бұрын
Nice
@nadineelizabeth1953 ай бұрын
I've been in countries or cities where I couldn't concentrate I was so confused 😕 is that bad energy in the people/city
@vocals76933 ай бұрын
They'll admit they have issues, but when there's a disagreement they go into denial mode and become haughty and arrogant.
@Fay11063 ай бұрын
Yes!!!! So true!!
@elenisiopi203329 күн бұрын
exactly
@tyrouse487626 күн бұрын
FACTS!!!!!
@Confused202313 күн бұрын
My husband… exhausting, these videos are my cia training
@nvaranavage13 күн бұрын
So true.
@treasurewhatever4 жыл бұрын
Lol what gets me when you’re dealing with these people is how you end up apologizing for stuff you normally would never apologize for.
@mandeeyingyangrosezen51614 жыл бұрын
treasurewhatever yes I just apologized for asking him to pick up my prescription and they didn’t have it filled yet. So I just apologized.... I need to get out and working on it
@NibblesTheNibbler4 жыл бұрын
@treasurewhatever: I'm sorry I find you attractive 😎
@BabyGirl-35884 жыл бұрын
IKR?
@Llamaeye14 жыл бұрын
Somebody's disease ...your suffering ..
@christinah.85044 жыл бұрын
Dr. Les Carter has a video explaining why you shouldn't care .
@shalaemayville98632 жыл бұрын
The confusion is overwhelming. One minute you're the best. Next minute they despise you. No one believes you when you tell them what kind of person they really are.
@Indy__isnt_it Жыл бұрын
No one, EVER HEARS. Including my adult son. In describing the manipulative behaviour his stepfather caused, his response was "that's hearsay". WTF is that supposed to mean? He's not here to defend himself. As I soon came to understand, my SON is also a narcissist himself, manipulating ME and supporting HIM!!! I'm surrounded by them. 3 out of 3 siblings, all have no issues. They totally control their worlds, and ours unless you cut off all contact. Until our divorce is final, we have an open email. It gave ME the outlet to use if I needed to. When you ask him a question that sets off the silent treatment, if I need to tell him something, we still share bank accounts and a house together. This is the worst/hardest part, splitting "what's left over" after all his abuse. While he tries to take over the house, since "I abandoned him", leaving for my safety, threatening to label me insane. What's more insane, the police are protecting "one of their own" from another state, no connection, no allegiance. Smdh
@Portia620 Жыл бұрын
That is what messes with our heads even more! Agreed same happens to me but there was quite a few people that worked for my father that knew that he was a jerk, so not everybody’s fool by the BS! And as time goes by the screw up a lot, and I got enough proof of her mind, really is
@Portia620 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think my ex knows what all I have on him, and that I could destroy him with the evidence, but why would I do that he’s living in Texas now with this girl he married supposedly only knew her a few months, but he was cheating on her to sell and the last one and me. 🤦♀️. I don’t want STDs and I sure the hell don’t want him back, so why would I even give a woman a proof? I know that’s horrible to say, but I want them out of my life.
@ambergerbuns Жыл бұрын
Yes! Diagnosed with major depression for many years, amongst other diagnoses - I just wasn’t okay and nothing helped and I didn’t know why. And then I woke up one day and asked for a divorce, and haven’t been depressed since! Wow! Turns out I was suffering from confusion. The best thing he ever did for me was to call me a narcissist. I had no idea what it all meant, I just thought it was an insult hurled at good-looking, confident, successful people. And I knew he didn’t love himself like that, and he certainly isn’t oozing charisma. Not only skipped love bombing, but never once bought me a birthday, Christmas, Mother’s Day, any occasion gift. I’d forgotten what kind of birthday cake I liked! No one had asked in over ten years. So, he called me, the one riddled with self-loathe and exhausted from nonstop effort and nothing to show but more and worse failure every day, a narcissist. That made no sense, so I looked it up. And it turns out it’s the really icky psychological disorder that destroys people’s wellbeing. Also turns out my mother, all 3 stepdads, and my first husband are all afflicted, too. I have been surrounded by these fuKKing people my entire life! But my point is, it took a few days to clear the confusion bc I’m looking for myself in this info but finding resonance with the “effects of” information. But he doesn’t fit the bill, either - until I said “divorce” and he just Jekyll-Hyded himself into something I never could have imagined. It was wild. I even spent a day or two reading all about emotionally unintelligent men - because that can be fixed, right? Then had KZfaq on auto play in ear buds while I cleaned house, and some video popped up explaining covert narcissism. I started sobbing and laughing uncontrollably. I admit, it was weird, but I was profoundly hurt and sad, and yet overwhelmed with joy (something I had noted was absent in our lives for years). It took months to process it all, but the struggle has been so worthwhile. I’m even grateful for the relationship. Sucks it took so long to learn my lesson, but the rest of my life is MINE. My only question is, HOW do I deal with this overgrown, deluded manbaby for the next 15 years as our children move through their own childhoods? No contact sounds lovely!!! But it’s not an option.
@ambergerbuns Жыл бұрын
@@Indy__isnt_itI feel you. I’m stuck in a community that hates me and is openly abusive to me, from neighbors to school secretaries, the marriage therapist (also a raging narc), literally every single person I’ve known for the past decade believes that I am an abusive monster who tormented him and tried to make him end his own life and and and… And, he is also not keen on me moving out of the area with my children. He doesn’t want them. He just doesn’t want them too far away, because sometimes he needs them. I hate the “it’s not fair” line of thought, but seriously. It is not fair. I deserve no contact. You deserve no contact. But nobody will listen.
@prostyle162611 ай бұрын
If their absence brings you peace you did not lose them you have won yourself again
@katashley103111 ай бұрын
So true.
@janetkingston-davis5584 ай бұрын
That hit the spot! 🙏
@stephthinks31093 ай бұрын
Great quote
@IamStillrich3 ай бұрын
Not necessarily. You could just be a grump, inflexible, fixed, ridged... OUTNUMBERED.. NOT saying that you are any of these things. You could be taken serious for silly things by the "types" just described... Millie YOu could also JUST be EXAUHUSTED and around those who just don't care. NO THING makes sense when you are sleep deprived... If you are afraid to go to sleep... for ANY reason nothing will come out of your mouth or mind correctly... eSPECIALLY to agents of Systemic oppression though denial of correct information necessary to make good decisions about one's own life. They NEED to PUSH the buck... I mean make a profit... It's so Petty... It could also be that frequency generator that makes it impossible to read written words out loud, or form cohesive thoughts or to verbalize them... Many reasons...
@prostyle16263 ай бұрын
@@IamStillrich The words in your comment that stand out are, OUTNUMBERED, those, and they. You need to understand that I'm not talking about groups of people irritating me. I am talking about one narcissistic ex spouse. Not they, them or those. But their absence, that one person that made my life hell.
@kadran3263 Жыл бұрын
The subtext is always: 'My pain is so much worse, my life so much worse than yours. Therefore, your pain is irrelevant.'
@Infernapeclosecombat2 ай бұрын
I had cancer and I was blamed for being angry and now was told that angry behavior won’t be forgiven or forgottten
@SinderellaScapegoat2 ай бұрын
I was literally thinking about this!!! None of us are irrelevant,THANK YOU for bringing this to LIGHT 🕯️🕯️🕯️
@mikami90992 ай бұрын
@@SinderellaScapegoatdepends tho. you cannot keep bothering someone who is truly hurting more than you with smaller problems it’s like going to someone who broke their leg and is under anaesthesia complaining about how they did not reply to your text and you’re hurt
@kadran32632 ай бұрын
@@mikami9099 It comes down to balance, though, don't you think? Mutual respect and care: one person's pain does not negate another's. In context of this video, the narcissist person or group demands compete imbalance. For those of us addressing our own pain for the first time, mutual respect is a healthy path forward.
@kadran32632 ай бұрын
@@Infernapeclosecombat I was shamed for having angry feelings about children being murdered in wars. I realised later that my anger guides me to moral understanding and action. The other person is happy to look the other way and avoid all anger. I realised they have no moral core.
@Sattva4683 жыл бұрын
The biggest sign you are with a toxic partner is a feeling of CONFUSION. This video is spot-on.
@debbiedeakin77632 жыл бұрын
Yes I completely agree. It's the confusion, it drives you insane
@Rex_Manning-2 жыл бұрын
AMEN!
@maca58682 жыл бұрын
Confusion is the devil's realm, which is time-sensitive.
@davidemm8292 жыл бұрын
The lean in as they are in elation is like rejection so the target has to up the game to get them back..similar to the borderlines push pull..or the target may self sabotage their own life to get them back just as she goes back to depletion so there are 2: ppl in the shits fighting..on & on..ty RG .this is one of my fav .David
@nancerobinson49012 жыл бұрын
True
@wanderingfree1494 жыл бұрын
Coverts use your compassion against you. Your kindness is seen as a weakness to them
@paulclinton64144 жыл бұрын
Sick
@candacecasey56344 жыл бұрын
Until you catch on and refuse to keep doing it.
@bonnie32324 жыл бұрын
So true. End the end, you don't trust your own instincts and perceptions. But, once you finally get away, finally go no contact for real, you will begin to heal.
@judywhittlesey40104 жыл бұрын
Kindness and compassion for others is a good thing, in small doses. Just don't allow any one person to build a crutch from it. You will eventually be the one pushing their wheelchair. My husband was a hard worker, but "always" said, "I'll be glad when I can retire, and you can push my wheelchair." Listen to and observe all those repetitive things that your gut tells you "this is wrong!"
@nobsnoargue41264 жыл бұрын
@@bonnie3232 not if the empath only lives 9 months after forced to marry HER
@conversationswithadrianne Жыл бұрын
"The truth is, they're one person... and they are an adult. The things that they do when they are mean... that's who that person is." That stood out to me. That's what I need to continue to remind myself.
@rde401711 ай бұрын
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
@debbier95554 ай бұрын
Scientific and medical studies over the past 40 years have proven that the narcissist has multiple personalities.
@aliyahadaanniАй бұрын
An adult who likes to flip the script and claim vulnerability and accused you of chasing them when that is infact it's you that was vunrable and you that was pursued.
@flowergarden-128 күн бұрын
That was truth !
@katc.9747 Жыл бұрын
“The things that they did when they were MEAN - That’s who that person is.” 😞 It’s the most daunting thing I’ve heard and it’s heartbreaking.
@pierrettebrousseau28211 ай бұрын
And the fact that they can be mean to people they supposedly love as easily as they can breathe. A truly whole and healed person is NEVER mean or cruel to anybody.
@robertdemeter57936 ай бұрын
It is Vital to not take anything ' personal ' with them, as nobody is inside them in the first place. Narcissists don’t know how to love; they can’t afford to spare the energy to learn, because they’re always in a state of high emergency, cataloging potential threats and redoubling their defenses. When they claim to love you, it means nothing. They may even think they mean it, but they don’t understand the concept - they can’t feel it. They never attach to you or anyone else. Other people are paper cut-outs to the narcissist, like those cardboard figures of celebrities you pose next to for a selfie. Narcissists value their own children only as mirrors of themselves. Loads of them brag about being a good parent and seek compliments for that only to hide their masks... When they destabilize you or attack you, it means nothing... They are stuck in an endless conversation with themselves, in which you are an inanimate object, to be assigned their own faults and used as a surrogate punching bag for their hatred of themselves. When they toss you out, it’s no more meaningful than a junkie tossing away a needle; when they try to reel you back in, it only means that they tired of the new drug and need a hit of the old. None of this is personal. They’re too terrified to have close personal relationships, opting instead for extraction of admiration from a subservient partner whose range of action they strictly constrain.. .. This is not personal. None of it. The narcissist does not know who you are - it doesn’t know how to know other people. Like the vampire or the chainsaw-wielding creature in the horror film, it’s from another world, bereft of the concept of human connection., . And, Moreover, if you think They are the one that 'made' you feel then you're still under their control/spell, you're still wrapped up in their neverending inner delusions/dar-kness, and you learned nothing. Truth is, you were loving YOURSELF the entire time you were interacting with them as they were doing nothing more than mirroring you, as there is nobody inside them in the first place, therefore there was nobody for you to love but yourself (as they themselves are incapable of true empathy/love). Stating that they made you feel is like saying an empty robot made you feel, or an empty soda can made you feel. And in the same way it's completely ridiculous to think a Narc made you feel anything...As they were doing nothing more than mirroring you in the beginning. Based on a lie and you cannot truly feel for lies. They are completely incapable of processing their emotions, they don't know how to. And that is why when you state that you love them they greatly resent it, they turn you into an enemy and play their games. Because inside they ask themselves- " how can you possibly love this ? ' Unless you get over these massive hurdles and understand the bigger picture of Universal spiritual truths in your relationships then you will never be the truly empathic powerful loving spirit being you truly are to love the world/heal the world. .. Much love !..
@nadineelizabeth1955 ай бұрын
Omg that just made me feel sick reading this ;(
@debbier95554 ай бұрын
@@pierrettebrousseau282 A clinical narcissist does NOT have the ability to truly love. They are a void always running to acquire dopamine to try and feel alive. Sad but very harmful personalities.
@susanhartline75393 ай бұрын
And that includes your mother..😢
@notafraidtothink2 жыл бұрын
"The things that they did when they were mean...That's who that person is." Thank you
@kamicrum44082 жыл бұрын
Its almost like they stayed up most if the night just thinking of mean things to do
@dmuzik37402 жыл бұрын
Finally accepting this as truth
@FirehorseG2 жыл бұрын
That's the dichotomy. Sometimes he's really immature and vindictive when we argue. Other times really kind. No steady Ness whatsoever. I never know what I'll get.
@OffTheWagons2 жыл бұрын
THIS^^ is what I need to remember
@marafenton81782 жыл бұрын
Amen
@dustymiller29124 жыл бұрын
When they have power over you, they act like dictators. When they lose that power, they resort to emotional blackmail. It's all an act. They're soulless machines, whose only goal is to control and use you.
@hadotonini11894 жыл бұрын
That's true. That's what my narcissist aunt tried to do me. She did and does a lot of evil things to me and my family. However, my family especially my parents are too meek to stand for themselves. They were busy trying to keep peace on the surface while sacrificing our own feelings and needs. I got into a huge fight with her few months ago after bottling up all my feelings since I was little. I finally got the gut to speak out my mind; I told her to shut the fuck up, cursed her, shouted at her and letting go all of my negative feelings. When she tried to counter attack me, I said "bye bitch!" and walked away. She hated it so much because she lost control over me and she got no chance to argue back. I still remember how she verbally harrassed me during my grandmother's funeral although I was in complete silence. She was busy creating scenes and shouting, "Why did you call me bitch!!!..." She was also busy badmouthing about me to the other relatives who don't know us well. Perhaps she wanted to act as the victim. Nevertheless, I don't care about her and what others think. I just smirked and looked at her in disguist. She acted very pathetic for a 59 year old bitter and unemployed woman who self claimed to be the smartest among her siblings. Mind you, she got fired from her job in 1980s due to her colleagues' signature campaign. Nobody can get along with her as she always insult other people. She has been brainwashing my older brother who is too forgiving to convince me to say sorry to her. But I strongly refused. I see no point of letting that woman into my life ever again. Since that, I've stopped all sort of communication with that nasty aunt. I'm happier to think of her as a stranger. Although she self claimed my late grandmother's house which happens to be mom's neighbor, I never visit my late grandmother's house anymore. It's simply easier to ignore her and walk away. I hope she'll die in loneliness in that house.
@AEHudg3 жыл бұрын
@@hadotonini1189 👏👏👏👏 I like that
@phillydee67runningbear613 жыл бұрын
i hear you Dusty, well put.
@twentytwenty19683 жыл бұрын
It is certainly true no matter how painful it is to feel that
@daphne49833 жыл бұрын
Brain stem creatures
@joehibbler71205 ай бұрын
I was married to a covert Narcissists for 5 years and as student psychology . I am amazed at how dynamic the emotion is on discard. The revel is difficult grasp that they never loved or could love you.. so your left mourning a show, figment of fantasy and imagination that for all purposes felt real and was real to you.
@JayRosenthal-wz7vm23 күн бұрын
So painfully true
@Babee567 күн бұрын
Do they change into a different person? This is what happened to me and I feel like he might have wanted me to breakup with him. Now he’s seeking pity everywhere because I did him wrong by leaving him but he did something unforgivable (repeatedly for an entire week away on vacation where I couldn’t leave) for me to do this
@missp1030Сағат бұрын
@@Babee56yup. They’re good at reverse discarding us! Sick sick people
@_RLY_Ай бұрын
9 months ago I was discarded by my first love. Little did I know she was a Fragile narcissist. I begged, pleaded, did ALL the things you're not supposed to do but hey, I gotta learn the hard way unfortunately. Videos like this have really helped me start to process who she really was and what actually happened. Even after all the knowledge I've gained on the subject matter I STILL think about her but Its getting better. It really is wild how damaging these people are. For anyone else suffering here is my advice. Focus on YOU because YOU are all that matters. Do not let some broken person dictate how you feel and how you view yourself. Do things that make you happy, find a new hobby, get that promotion at work. Just stay busy and there will be better days ahead. I believe in you all stay strong because you're worth it. Much love everyone
@veryhappy43344 жыл бұрын
One thing I learned after a relationship, "let go, if there's confusion".
@irenek79443 жыл бұрын
So simple and true!
@noluso3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is indeed that crystal clear!
@lovewhitey20273 жыл бұрын
So simple if it doesn’t make sense its NONSENSE 🗣✍🏻🤬👹
@asryn963 жыл бұрын
Absolutely yes! Intuition is the key.
@asryn963 жыл бұрын
@@lovewhitey2027 Well said.
@elizabethharper31814 жыл бұрын
"The things they did when they were MEAN, that's who they are!" ...I do well to remember this...👍
@bethflynn42784 жыл бұрын
How do we forget, but yet we do.......
@matthewaldgate39034 жыл бұрын
Judge them buy there actions not there words
@gigiw.76504 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Harper Taste their fruit to see if it is good. 😊
@jadeabbey56014 жыл бұрын
Yes!! As petty as it sounds I hate to rename him in my phone as ‘Evil Narc’ to serve as a visual reminder every time he tried to contact me. I also began journaling after every interaction with him to analyse/immortalise his true self in my head. I highly recommend doing these things for anyone struggling to leave and break that cognitive dissonance for good :)
@morningstar924 жыл бұрын
The "good times" were fake remember that they were acting for their benefit.
@lynnebaker6643 ай бұрын
41 years w/a covert narcissist rarely saw him be vulnerable, cry etc. Very cruel, secretive, silent treatment, neglect, betrayal, abandonment, victim, blame, no accountability or responsibility, commitment.
@yellowdayz180026 күн бұрын
I am so sorry. Did he do reactionary abuse on you to? Like word salad on purpose to make you more confused, agitated annoyed etc.. Mine did. It was awful.
@no_reservations25 Жыл бұрын
You literally summed up my entire marriage to a covert narcissist, guilt, confusion, manipulation, feeling like I could have done more (even after spending $80,000 on him because of pity). So glad to be freed from him! Thank you for posting this!
@emilieholtmeier24093 күн бұрын
Mine has 26 felony convictions
@no_reservations253 күн бұрын
@@emilieholtmeier2409 hope you are freed from that
@jenniehettrick42044 жыл бұрын
I was asked what it was like to be in a relationship with a covert Narcissist. (Top of the list was pity) You’ll feel pity. Angry at anyone who ever hurt them before. They’ll have lots of these stories to tell you. Then you’ll feel protective. Dismissing any unkind words about them from your friends or family. You’ve found the love of your life. Your soulmate. A person you thought they only wrote about in books or movies. You’ll guard this relationship. You’ll do whatever it takes to keep it together. To make them happy and feeling safe in the fact that you’ll never hurt them… leave them. This is right where they want you. Fighting and guarded against the world. It’s just the two of you. At least to you it is. There’s already been enough triangulation and manipulation to your mind and heart that you’re blinded with loyalty. Not them. Never them. They have backup connections and making new ones to add to the list. Their loyalty is to themselves and what they can get and from who. Your boundaries are down. Your guard isn’t up towards them. You are left defenseless and vulnerable. That’s when it starts. The mean hateful world they’ve complained about now resides in you. You are causing their unhappiness. Their boredom. You are the clinging choking emotions that suffocate their well being. But they “love” you. But you’re always sad and they don’t like that about you. You used to be so different. Easy going and kind. You didn’t used to question where they were or what they meant by that comment. You’re crazy and they can now easily see why others have hurt you. Why did you ruin everything? Why couldn’t you just keep smiling and nodding your head and being agreeable to their every whim? You’ve become a burden. A boring nuisance. What are you even good for? How did THEY get hooked in a relationship with you? And while you’re crying and broken, they’ll be testing out the next ex. They’ll be leading you around by your sobbing nose and make it look like maybe… could be they were wrong about you. Twinkling hope in your sorrowful eyes like diamond stars in a perfect sky of possibilities. There are, of course, so many things you’ll need to change about yourself. You’ve let yourself go and your thoughts are useless. You’re lucky they care about you because nobody else in this world does or will. And then, snap, they’re in another story with someone new. But only new to you. They’ve been grooming this person while you cried your heart out. Begging for it to be like it used to be. But it never was or will be.
@lashingtung4 жыл бұрын
That's my 20 year marriage with four kids in a nutshell....been separated for a bit over a year and I feel loads better. But still occasionally struggle with feeling badly for her, still guilty if I made the right choice. She initially proposed divorce to me, had me signed papers and all. Then took it back when she saw I was willing to go along with it. She even went so far as to accuse me of willing leaving when she kicked ME OUT of "her" house. I told she proposed divorce to me and kicked me out, she says that its true but I willingly left.....
@ccynthiasarnicki36374 жыл бұрын
Jennie spot on! Well said.
@mslnie4 жыл бұрын
That's exactly it. Very eloquently stated. Thank you. Resonates deeply.
@Christinaxceleste4 жыл бұрын
Spot on
@PurplePassionPaper4 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was well thought, I have lived with one too, my mother.....and you are right. For a kid it is abuse, neglect and emotional confusion and exhaustion. They make you feel like you are nothing, worthless. Nothing about you is ever right or good enough. Even being 'nice' to people could get me in trouble for being 'a goodie two shoes'. Everything had to be about her and her conceited mind. Basically, I had a miserable childhood because of the way she was. I am 53 now, and still haven't gotten over not being loved by her. My father rarely spoke to me and I think it was because of her. Everyone was intimidated by her. One of her favorite things to do was to humiliate him, and me.
@bluntweirdo4 жыл бұрын
“the things they did when they were mean... that’s who that person is.” YES
@DBK1554 жыл бұрын
It took me 15 years to figure that out
@jannekegerritsen3014 жыл бұрын
No that is the hurt inner child asking for your love and so healing
@bluntweirdo4 жыл бұрын
Janneke Gerritsen K. you have fun healing a narc, I have things to do.
@benmjt4 жыл бұрын
@@jannekegerritsen301 Get out of the FOG
@Exiria3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god
@lizh48178 ай бұрын
I soooo needed this. Moving out this coming Thursday and I have been going back and forth and feeling guilty. This just confirms everything for me! Pray for me guys ❤
@melissab85007 ай бұрын
I hope it went well! Don't feel guilty, save yourself
@TARAdubbleyuu7 ай бұрын
I hope you made it out of there successfully! I’m praying for you ♥️
@lizh48177 ай бұрын
Guys I made it out! Been out for a week and he’s trying to hoover hard. I do have a 2yo with him so I’m being respectful and careful. He doesn’t know where we live. Continue to pray for us. 😊
@TARAdubbleyuu7 ай бұрын
@@lizh4817 Congratulations!!! I'm so proud of you. Thank you for the update and for the hope that you have given to others (like me 😊) by sharing your journey. Even though we don't know each other, I send my love to you and your little one. Hold on to your courage and steadfastness and never tip your hand, no matter how convincing the hoover tactics. You can do this! I'll continue praying that God protects you and gives you discernment and clarity as you find your feet again. You're brave to have fought for your freedom and God will light your path. Happy Christmas to you and your baby!
@lizh48177 ай бұрын
@@TARAdubbleyuuI so appreciate you!!! God is truly sending a village and you guys are apart of it 💕 Sending prayers and blessings your way. Merry Christmas to you and yours! 😊 Advice, start to slowly disconnect, stop sharing your day, keep it short and simple. This will help you in the long run because you’re training yourself to be without the person. Plan exit and save! I started planning and saving in July. It took a few months and don’t think too hard. Keep a journal of what the narc does to remind yourself. You got this!!!!
@charlottemckenzie5259Ай бұрын
They do the most damage because if you're codependent like me you feel completely blindsided
@adrianaaagaardsommer34664 жыл бұрын
I just left a covert narcissist. No contact!! I got away after 3 months Thank God. Since then I have been sleeping 11 hours every night to recover. I was exhausted. I am so done with my pattern of nursing grown up people. No more!! ❤️ put my big girl pants on 😂
@bobbivaneman15843 жыл бұрын
Adriana...Good one ! Me too. We need to give them their binky & shove them out the door.
@oscarwilliamson12643 жыл бұрын
Adriana Aagaard Sommer, you deserve better
@EscapingTheMadness3 жыл бұрын
The sleep is sooo needed we all go through this period!!
@mattikarosenthal32983 жыл бұрын
This makes my hair hurt. Do we ever truly recover from these, especially if they were long marriages? I just try not to think about it anymore. But sometimes these videos can trigger the memories, even after 25 years have passed.
@asparrow55053 жыл бұрын
It's messed up how much they can wreck your health and how long it takes to recover but I believe most people will if they make themselves a priority.
@karikari73364 жыл бұрын
Ugh it’s so hard to find non toxic people these days. 😢
@sni-ri1yg4 жыл бұрын
The worst part is they try to effect the people who are most vulnerable. They too weak to attack established people.
@penyarol834 жыл бұрын
Absolutely... we're all just taking each other down....
@leahc83474 жыл бұрын
@Life Hacker 38 years and unfortunately I havnt found one... Brought up by a bunch of overt narcissists then locked into an arranged marrige with a clinically mental person, tried excaping, had grief, threats and mindgames from the religious community for leaving, close 'friends' and people I trusted to be friends betraying me and even helping my abusers, and the religious community got their head together (even raised money, smear campainges, family even helping because how dare I leave the religion, even if all kinds of abuse was going on...) they worked hard to sway authorities against me to the point I was so isolated and broken... and nowhere left to turn for help.. then I met the covert narc, which I thought was 'heaven sent'... at least a loving connection from another human being... but I found out this was all one big 'cosmic joke'. I stay here alone now, contemplating my healing, becoming abit more aware but how the hell am I meant to trust another person, or free myself... and physically unwell from it all, juggling the issues still thrown at me, all the while not trying to let anyone know how broken I really am inside... because people tend to flinch and run a mile if the start to hear what I lived through and survived and I know I have to try holding my tongue and not share if I am to have a chance to connect with people, and also too I know what will happen again if I do show any weakness*..
@styledna244 жыл бұрын
That’s because they are hiding the truth, this types of people are not grounded in reality.
@EloraSelah4 жыл бұрын
@@leahc8347 how beautifully have you articulated your feelings into words.
@Holly-jp6vrАй бұрын
This is exactly what I have been dealing with for 2 years. I think I’m finally getting out of it . This is crazy accurate
@SherryMelancon5 ай бұрын
I call the sob story "The Litany of Despair." It's a litany that lays out why nothing is their fault and all the things they don't have and that they have not accomplished are because of the active interference of those around them. But make no mistake, when you aren't the one they are telling the litany to, you are the one they are telling the litany about.
@ellengrace46094 жыл бұрын
“The only downfall of having a good heart is that you're constantly looking for angels inside of demons. And they wonder why the good know so much pain. ” - R.H. Sin, Tumblr Just saw that quote and it reminded me of the message in this video.
@derrickrr55164 жыл бұрын
It can certainly seem that way. I think Narcissists usually seek out compassionate and forgiving people or people who have a history of emotional pain. Probably because they will be most likely to feel pity and guilt. The interesting thing to me is this, how much of it is conscious versus subconscious? I would guess it’s more like permanent programming that can’t have the software upgraded.
@sorinapavel13214 жыл бұрын
@@derrickrr5516 They seek for unawear people, naive, vulnerable, in need. But first of all full of ressources.
@derrickrr55164 жыл бұрын
Sorina Pavel Do you think it’s completely conscious tactics or pure instinctual?
@skeyesk27174 жыл бұрын
Beautiful quote! 🌟
@sorinapavel13214 жыл бұрын
@@derrickrr5516 It is both. And they know what they are doing.
@nevaehb.43714 жыл бұрын
Covert narcs: look at their ACTIONS (not their words) and you will know who they are.
@pialindeg4 жыл бұрын
yes thank you
@sophiabright83714 жыл бұрын
Totally. 22 years with a brilliant, obstructive, helpless, crazymaking HOBBIT. I am completely flattened.
@annamarie32884 жыл бұрын
So true
@robotdeathderby4 жыл бұрын
this. good god. this was driving me crazy, the difference between the words and actions.
@boomerangsruckflug85134 жыл бұрын
Hm, yes, but their words are the worst weapons, because they belittle you and criticize in order to hurt and to make you feel guilty. So watch both, actions AND words.
@berniethompson1031 Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh! This is my life! Being married for 38 years with chaos and confusion, never knowing which personality I will be dealing with from one minute to the next. Wow, this video describes it all!
@user-cz6st5pi3g10 ай бұрын
Waiting for mine to die. Lol😢
@TheThinker-ce5kq5 ай бұрын
Mine did. Thank the heavens.
@NaturalWonder1433 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tough talk. I always went back because he had no friends, by his own choice. I was worried about him. Also the trauma bond and the hope the good guy would resurface.
@joyalways11794 жыл бұрын
They are babies trying to manipulate mommy, still.
@candacecasey56344 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@tripleyoker20494 жыл бұрын
Except now, you're the mommy--whom they seek to punish for having allowed them to be born!
@kensyskye89654 жыл бұрын
Think Forurself and probably their mommy’s too...Still.....
@judywhittlesey40104 жыл бұрын
And they are always looking for the perfect "mommie" for them, the one they think they never had! That WILL be you, if you allow It!
@brannonburroughsburroughs57684 жыл бұрын
Right on point
@stephaniebyard3958 Жыл бұрын
“The things that they did when they were mean, that’s who that person is.” Felt that! 👍👍👍
@ajseals4980 Жыл бұрын
I so totally agree 1000% my girl!! I was with mine for 18 years on and off for the past 5... When I caught him in a lie AGAIN (he stormed out the door with a bag of "some" clothes and 2 of our dogs; up the road he went to mom n dad's... Only a hop skip and jump from where we were living at that time) anywho I recorded it, and he did not know that that was going to be the LAST time he walked out that door! Surprised him LOL! Sorry so long
@malwads1836 Жыл бұрын
Exactly...Anything OTHER than the nastiness is just merely part of the 🎭/false self.
@mikewilkins2030 Жыл бұрын
The get extremely evil! Nasty, like a demon comes out! It’s scary!
@katherinebuchanan9350 Жыл бұрын
Yep
@moniquebode1655 Жыл бұрын
Yes I learnt that my husband wasn't the man I thought he was
@RuthAnne1961 Жыл бұрын
The blocking and unblocking could partly be trauma bonding because the covert narcissist's behaviour toward you, that's mostly dire with a peppering of kindness. Because of that tiny amount of kindness, it somehow keeps you hooked, like an addict that's trying to get clean but keeps relapsing.
@kasiakwiatkowska798610 ай бұрын
Great video, spot on. Unfortunately when narcissist is a co-parent, you cannot block him totally, and the worst is that they use parenting issues to cause confusion.
@ViktorDN7 ай бұрын
Yes. My ex says to me I am a narcissist and maybe I am narcissistic. But I wouldn’t dare to call her a narcissist without a diagnosis for proof and I wouldn’t dare to instrumentalize, weaponize our child or use him as a means of pressure for getting what I want. Maybe I am a narcissist because I badmouth her (only telling the truth, but nontheless over the years that has become the only way for me to come clear with it). Damn I even became violent and betrayed my own boundaries of behavioral approaches.
@bad.chickie6617 күн бұрын
Yeah but sometimes a covert married an overt and the covert makes all the women in her life think she’s a good person.
@bad.chickie6617 күн бұрын
@@ViktorDNyou don’t need a professional diagnosis to know what you’re dealing with lol
@suenutt76273 жыл бұрын
No conversation - unless they want to brag about themselves.
@westongloger60053 жыл бұрын
Wow yes
@jp54193 жыл бұрын
So true. They're so fuckibg boring! Nothing new. No insight. Boring as hell.
@strandedinanisland4573 жыл бұрын
All in their head though...delusional
@earthtariankyrasimone3 жыл бұрын
This!!!!
@elizabethortiz25713 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Oh how I know that! They love to brag about themselves. They have to do all the talking and you have less. They brag about lies! 😳😵😲🙄🤔😔😈🙆😣
@gatheringmoss57264 жыл бұрын
"The things that they did when they were mean, that's who that person is." The world needs that on posters, bumper stickers, those wacky rubber bracelets, billboards...
@marlenr86914 жыл бұрын
Cece oh yes... completely different people from the one you thought they were
@bmorgan29284 жыл бұрын
Well put!
@gatheringmoss57264 жыл бұрын
@@marlenr8691 Indeed. Often, when you describe this to people, they come back with pat justifications such as "some people just have difficulty expressing themselves" or whatever else they need to say in order to justify or minimize the bad behavior. As soon as someone uses the word "just" when explaining why someone did something abusive, they're minimizing what was done. It's extremely difficult for people to come to grips with the fact that the nice guy/gal side of someone isn't real, and the mean side is the true person.
@maretijewel14704 жыл бұрын
Cece. Yesss.. My thoughts exactly! I'm making this my wallpaper!.. 👏
@gatheringmoss57264 жыл бұрын
@@maretijewel1470 Haha! Good idea!
@RubyZanUK11 ай бұрын
He and I ran into each other as we seemed to be living close. The conversation flowed. We agreed to go for a coffee a couple of weeks later. We swapped numbers. Few days later he called me to tell me "We will go for a coffee because I don't like breaking promises. But after that we will never see each other again because I will kill myself". I was shocked. Where did $hit come from? As a typical empath, I showed compassion and calmed him down. As someone who learned from her own stupid mistakes, I sent him a polite text message few hours later that for our mutual wellbeing this was over. I blocked him. My phone sends blocked number straight to Voice Mail. He left me 8 angry messages giving me stern commands to call him. Of course I didn't and never will. I wish someone would mention the exact games narcissists played with them to trap them. I would've fallen for this one years ago. Now, I don't want to go to their circus any more. I want peace. Peace under ANY circumstances. Even if it means being alone.
@patriciarose2342 Жыл бұрын
What sucks the most is when someone you care about is a fearful narcissist who accuses u of being a narcissist. I definitely suffer from cognitive disinance. And yes, they pick at small things in your character to make you question your own identity. Its sad when you think you had a good friend or someone who loves you, but you have to stay away. Even if just to stay away from their false accusations.
@Rabswood29610 ай бұрын
Yes exactly they turn it around on you and get their flying monkeys to attack e instead
@tld78465 ай бұрын
It especially sucks when it's your own child who is trying to make you look like the bad guy to the rest of the family.
@janelikeaj4 ай бұрын
So true
@JesusLovesBest3 ай бұрын
Dealing with this currently. Very sad and exhausted. Very hurt. She's my daughter...I can't cut all ties. Yet I sure feel like it. She is mentally ill and driving me to that too😢
@annetterhynold51772 жыл бұрын
My ex was a covert narcissist. I was confused most of my 34 years of marriage. Once I finally left my family felt sorry for him. They were shocked I would leave because he was such a great man.I had to realize I needed to save myself and not feel sorry for him anymore. My family didn't know the real man. After of 2 1/2 years away from him, I am finally happy.
@keldealmeida57682 жыл бұрын
I feel happy for you. I wish you all the best!
@bronwyntanner45012 жыл бұрын
I did 14 years of insane marriage to the passive aggressive covert narcissist. 14 years of sadness, loneliness, confusion, disappointment, reactive abusing (I was the crazy one). Grateful to have left JUne 2017 and finding me since then
@sondrab25472 жыл бұрын
I am on year 30... and still not sure but I am definitely miserable. What was the "real man" like? I know I will be seen as the monster if I leave as well. But most of the time I do feel like I'm the bad guy.
@gulnari.17092 жыл бұрын
@@sondrab2547 22 years here. Feel the same. After I asked for divorce, he's trying to charm me , even offering me to go, take time to "heal" have therapy ,since he convincing me that I'm the problem and something is wrong with me...
@isabelreyes43812 жыл бұрын
I try believe my narc husband has been talking with my narc siblings behind my back. Slot of gaslighting trying to make me crazy. He wanted me to do something unsavory, I refused. And all hell broke lose in my life after that............pure narc revenge and my siblings are in on it.
@HomerSimpson853 жыл бұрын
Who else has also truly realized just how much narcissism is fully integrated throughout our entire society, because of the cruel and evil abomination of a "system" we have? It's unbelievably nerve wracking and anger provoking, to say the least.
@zeferenahuckleby78183 жыл бұрын
I.was just thinking this.
@racerx53793 жыл бұрын
It's not the system , its satan.
@ashlieperry22733 жыл бұрын
@@racerx5379 bingpot! It's sin that stems from Satan.
@TheAyrik3 жыл бұрын
Its human nature to be narcissist and some people are just more predatory than others nothing to do with the system.
@mztwixed3 жыл бұрын
Carefully and systematically created to malign society. That’s how Satan works.
@loganross1861 Жыл бұрын
All I know is I’ve been struggling since I was a kid, and for whatever reason learning and understanding about this stuff is helping me get a better grip. I don’t even care so much about finding the “bad guy” as much as I want to just get myself well and prepared to protect against falling into the confusion
@SuprEmpth Жыл бұрын
I’ve Been though this in my recent relationship and I’m preparing myself for the next relationship. I’m not going to repeat it!
@smoly373 ай бұрын
The part about the feeling sorry for them is spot on. I've been with someone who was serverely abused in his early youth and beyond. Every time he did or said something that really hurt, I got very angry with him but after the rage went down I felt sorry for him in such a way that I still haven't thrown him out. That lead to me getting more and more frightened because he is also a classic bully that will threaten you and intimidate.
@simonelvins74217 күн бұрын
I was with someone like that. Can't do it any more. Too negative. Too angry.
@selfhelpsonya Жыл бұрын
I was dating a covert narcissist who would cycle between love bombing and put downs in one single encounter. He would shift between a story about how he wants to marry me, to how I wasn't attractive enough to want to be with me. I couldn't even process what was happening. It was one of the most confusing and bizarre dating experiences of my life.
@amandacampos5319 Жыл бұрын
Same. 😭 And when he would put me down which made my mood change, suddenly I’m the party pooper and I don’t know how to have good time because I’ve become quite.
@BioHertz11 ай бұрын
So if I may ask you a question(I too have been in a covert malignent Narc situation) Doessent "covert" mean they unleash the meanness on you in private, for no one to see. ? And when in the open world, you would not see the narcness, nor would anyone else.
@amandacampos531911 ай бұрын
@@BioHertz I don’t fully understand the meanings of the different types, but that sounds about right. The narc that I was involved with made himself appear to be this great man and so good to me in front of others, (he would sometimes say things in front of his grown kids but maybe because he felt comfortable and most likely they knew he’s a narc) but behind closed doors and especially when he was in a mood is where I got the verbal/emotional abuse
@BioHertz11 ай бұрын
@@amandacampos5319 Yes, it sounds too familiar. Thank you, much love
@pebbles92able11 ай бұрын
Rn my covert narc ex is trying to hoover me. I can't take it anymore. He is begging and apologizing but I won't fall for it.
@llcrow96933 жыл бұрын
Got my daughter to watch this short video and she FINALLY recognized that her boyfriend was a narcissist (though I was telling her). She described the video as "life-changing." Thanks.
@LindaEckertBallard3 жыл бұрын
Sadly, have been unable to reach my daughter who was raised by Narcissistic Father. It was her choice, but I (mom) was vilified by him as he continued his tude against her (she could never do or say anything or 'else' she just turned 55 and still very unhappy an I perhaps the only one that could answer those questions but she does not speak to me.. Sadly my grandson committed suicide 3 years ago, and I saw it coming since she took on her daddy's disease, grandson could never do anything right and never please his mom and doubt if granddad had anything to do with him either 😓
@mamas_quilts35733 жыл бұрын
Thanking God for Richard and you(her mum) for helping her!! Her whole life will be better!
@mamas_quilts35733 жыл бұрын
@@LindaEckertBallard i can only hope you're wrong... To be the mum and endure this must be so painful...
@LindaEckertBallard3 жыл бұрын
@@mamas_quilts3573 it is very painful and sad, however, I got away from the abuse and the only times I ever looked back was regarding my daughter. She blames me for every wrong choice she ever made and I was there trying to plant good seeds all the time but she never listened to me :'( I watched another video this evening about family scapegoats and how to keep from being scapegoated (it was mainly directed toward children of narcissistic families .. in my case, I was "it". I am sad though but have had to let it all go since I do not allow anyone to abuse me any longer. Sadly, I tried to be the perfect wife for 10 years and realized I could never succeed in doing anything right. That was 45 years ago and I could never trust anyone since. I am a happy camper and live every day as if it were going to be my last and ENJOY all the Blessings I can and also give :) No more time to waste. I still never lose hope that one day she will grow up. Also carrying around so much hate has really had a very bad effect on her health .. if ONLY she would Wake UP and Let it ALL GO :/ Thanks and Blessings to you
@gymnast28903 жыл бұрын
@@LindaEckertBallard I'm so sorry. I feel sick. Sending you much healing & love♥️♥️🌎🌎⚡⚡♾♾
@marieclaudelatour854210 ай бұрын
This teaching is excellent! I was in this type of marriage for over 30 years. You are describing clearly the dynamics. You are absolutely right here. I am now divorced, recovering from all this abuse. Sadly enough that I endured this with children in the picture.The tool that helped me was to disengaged any type of arguments, conflicts or confrontations to be able to action toward a separation and divorce. I recommend this teaching to young people dating before they go too far in a relationship that can affect them for the rest of their lives. I wished I knew back in the 1980's. Thank you.
@blackbirdbones145510 ай бұрын
22 yrs for me. now i see it all. he has heart failure now at 80...i feel like i'm in prison for 'his' life.
@howarddavies78211 ай бұрын
This video is gold for someone like myself who has been trying to make sense of the chaos and drama that has happened for years. Thank you so much.
@jennifermorse58034 ай бұрын
Same!
@executivefitexpert2 жыл бұрын
“The things that they did when they were mean, that's who that person is." This a thousand times. Wheew.
@chrisg7996 Жыл бұрын
Right? So spot on...
@Edited6 Жыл бұрын
Had to call out of work for a week due to a family crisis and my boss didn't like lacking my attention. First day out I get a text asking if I'm upset with her. (I had made it clear I was overwhelmed with much more than work.) She quoted "My warmth is reserved for my nephew and mother at the moment." as "The meanest thing I've ever said." I met her almost 9 years ago as a shit-talking dishwasher. I've said such childishly horrid things, it was almost absolving to see that quoted as the worst... (She has screamed in my face plenty and even came to my house after I tried walking away from a fight.)
@preciousthing1014 жыл бұрын
I was in a devastating relationship with a covert narcissist. However, he didn’t have a sob story. He was just very gentle and shy at first to the point of seeming extremely harmless which I loved. He was EXTREMELY charming and chivalrous. Love bombing, sweeping me off my feet as a perfect gentleman. Then as I was obviously in love with him, he started showing his true colors. He’d be crazy about me one day, take me SUPER high and then the next day drop me. He would withdraw his affection completely, to the point of being cold hearted and cruel, then the next be crazy about me again. It was a maddening roller coaster, that would leave me SOOOOO confused and wondering what was wrong with me and why I wasn’t good enough. Perpetually chasing those highs. He is an EXTREMELY private person and wouldn’t go into specifics about his past. It got to the point that I became “trained” that when he was sweet, romantic, gentle, I knew to enjoy it to the max cause the next day he’d be bored with me and discard me. It was 6 years of torture, that left me with baaaaad expectations of men and literary I suffer from PTSD whenever getting involved and in new relationships. Subconsciously doing the dropping before I get discarded. Which is why I have made the decision to stay single until I am able to deprogram all these horrible behaviors. These type of people leave you traumatized and in need for therapy.
@janedavis47934 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your story. I also am single. My ability to be in a relationship is completely broken, I can’t trust anyone. It takes years to recover from this-well for me anyway. Take care...💜💟
@yonta1234 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal Woman this is exactly what I experienced from my father and then from my intense covert narc/sociopath only to have a string of these after.... it was exhausting. So much so I also have ptsd... and I now avoid any intimacy or relationships possible. I feel it’s made me the same but I’d never do that to someone so I keep myself single and alone ... so I don’t hurt anyone... but it’s because I was so broken by so many in a long row. That I feel it broke me and my ability to believe in love or that someone will love me or they won’t end up like this. Sad life. I even stopped being able to perform for a while and socially interact. Became agoraphobic even for a while. But it’s the weird sad truth of the damage they do. PTSD is so real... and long term real damage is real. I wish there could be a way to heal to how I was before I met my ex. I was so soft open and loving and believed in it. Now I just don’t. And that isn’t healthy... but since I can’t attract or trust healthy I just stay away.
@rosbifle4134 жыл бұрын
Did you never ask yourself if maybe you were ever at fault? If you didn't this may be a red flag that you have narcissistic tendancies.
@carlybrennan59974 жыл бұрын
Sending you love and healing. You’re on the right path.
@bonanonymouscrickett52314 жыл бұрын
I grew up with a narc dad then attracted numerous narcs. It was this endless cycle of not good enough just like GOD (good old dad). I finally recognized the PTSD came from my childhood abuse and trying to resolve my dad's loveless attitude toward me. Distant. Cold. Cruel. It sets us up to relive it in our relationships. I studied PTSD in college and since and one therapist told me these wise words I share with you and readers: you never heal.from PTSD .. You learn coping strategies. It's very true. You will always have triggers and flashbacks especially if there was childhood abuse. If you had a normal childhood then you can reprogram yourself after an abusive relationship. It takes a lot of work and cultivating self love again. When you can answer why you let it go on that.long and why you didn't love yourself enough to get out immediately you're on the road back to normal. Good luck. I hope that helps.
@LeahB481210 ай бұрын
I've never experienced anything like this type of relationship- which led me to keep thinking I was the problem. Also, because I was constantly told I was the problem. This did an unbelievable about of damage to me. No one understands this from the outside except for few experts- my family could not wrap their brains around what was happening behind closed doors.
@tad11114 ай бұрын
I hope your ok, it's happening to me the exact same way.
@michaeldover33235 ай бұрын
This explanation has given me clarity on the situation i was in, In a relationship with a covert narcissist, I'm pleased i only wasted 4 years, felt like 20' nearly finished me off at one point, crazy, but that explanation has helped me immensely, the penny has finally dropped, i left a month ago" went 100% no contact, its the only way"I'm lucky there's no children involved' i know its early days but ive never felt this much peace and calmness in my life, i would rather take a kicking off 10 Rugby players opposed to the mental torture and abuse i injured from a size 8 fragile lady' i didnt even no what a narcissist was till a couple of months ago, by God i do now " Biggest eye opener of my life, Thankyou so much 😇
@shannonbest1062 жыл бұрын
If someone cycles through ‘saying sorry’ for the same behaviors repeatedly, they really are not sorry…
@kelebeksky2 жыл бұрын
Thiiiiiissssss
@Diana55132 жыл бұрын
Circular arguments! My ex would apologize but we would never resolve the issue so it would get brought up again.. and again.. He would almost always turn things around and veer completely off-topic by bringing up my past (hooking up with others/ex boyfriends, mom being a recovering alcoholic, me posting modelling pictures, having male friends.. ALL before I even knew him) to use against me. Each time I'd bring up the same issue, they'd accuse me of wanting to start an argument when really these issues were just never resolved.
@Christal1012 жыл бұрын
Never qn apology
@MsChantae2 жыл бұрын
@@Diana5513 wow literally what I went through just recently. You confide in then and they use it against you.
@MsChantae2 жыл бұрын
@@Christal101 it's exhausting and sorry is such a simple thing to say. You want to hear it from them more than anything you start to wonder if they never heard it growing up...like why is it so difficult to just say sorry
@GlamDrMona2 жыл бұрын
“The things they do when they’re mean. That’s who that person is.” That gave me chills.
@goldenautumn30732 жыл бұрын
And it's true.
@jomansson57422 жыл бұрын
That's their angry ego. It can be healed. But until they do, in the meantime we have to protect ourselves.
@phylliswithlove2 жыл бұрын
This stuck with me most too. I broke up with my ex a month and a half ago, but 2 weeks ago they asked to see me for their birthday since I was their best friend and they missed me. I gave in and got back on the rollercoaster. It was good until I quickly realized their patterns were back and they weren't going to change. The day I ended things again (last Tuesday) they told me specific behaviors of mine that they said led to their perfectionism and emotional distance. It's been plaguing my mind ever since. I am so glad I happened upon this video. They always either blamed other people or themselves (in a self-pitying, victimizing sort of way). It could be me or anyone else. I want stability. Never again will I accept less. People show us who they are.
@LittleMsLibra82 жыл бұрын
Same.. hairs standing up!!
@BonzoGal19802 жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@wholewellnesswithann4 ай бұрын
CONTROL was my first obvious hint of having been raised by a narcissist. There was no “we” or “us” - there was no other opinion that mattered, no perspective, no teamwork, no compromise. Dad called all the shots on EVERYTHING. And yet he was gone working 6-7 days a week!? Controlled everything in the home while not even being in the home. I never would have known he was a covert, though, with just that characteristic…it was the combination of control, quiet introversion, but outward resentment and condemnation of others: everyone ELSE was to blame for his perceived “failures.”
@Bf26fge3 ай бұрын
Control is a big issue with all narcissists, but not always stemming from the same motivation. We narcissists know best. If we care about you we have to be in control so you wont come to harm or make errors. Thus a paradox of narcissism. We can blindly harm people we care about. It isnt always purposeful, a result of our own personal vanities or to protect our egos, or as a result of evil motives. It can also result from good motives, blind spots, and thinking errors.
@ConservativeFreeSpirit11 ай бұрын
One of the clearist, simpilist, and to the point explanations.
@TheBrighterSpider Жыл бұрын
Quickest way to break the cycle (and also the narcissist) is to get comfortable with being the bad guy. “Yes I’m a mean b*tch and yes, I’m still saying no.” They have absolutely no idea how to handle that. It’s like de-fanging a snake. You can see the helpless confusion in their faces, because nobody ever responded to their guilt trip with calm acceptance and a double down on the offending behavior.
@Coss122 Жыл бұрын
I struggle with being the bad guy CONSTANTLY.
@loribroadfoot5023 Жыл бұрын
I've started by saying "So what?" in my head, before I engage a response, and now I will be more comfortable not only standing my ground, but *de-fanging the snake* Bless you.
@jenniferrobs3980 Жыл бұрын
Just be aware that it will eventually trigger anger.
@TheBrighterSpider Жыл бұрын
@@jenniferrobs3980 Oh, absolutely. Instant rage. Spinning head like a demon, screaming and frothing at the mouth. But that’s all day, every day, anyway.
@AbyssalManta Жыл бұрын
My mother would go full on psycho when I did that, and when I defended myself from her PHYSICAL attacks, she'd go and tell everyone *I* was assaulting her. Now, you know the stigma that carries, right? You could be LITERALLY looking at jail time, and police couldn't care less about presumption of innocence in that particular scenario either. She couldn't care less either. These creatures are like rabid animals. They are demons, they are raw manifestations of evil. There's no pacifying them, there's no line they aren't willing to cross.
@livvyjos2 жыл бұрын
The Covert Narcissist is basically dealing with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde… their behaviour keeps you living on the edge causing you major anxiety and all the time maintaining they’re the normal ones and making you think you’re losing the plot.
@rachaelesque32 жыл бұрын
Bingo!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@FindYourFree2 жыл бұрын
that's it
@sarahslater35342 жыл бұрын
Yup
@Mea_Davis-Sotonade2 жыл бұрын
Spot on!!!
@StrangerOnO2 жыл бұрын
Yes they will cause the ptsd diagnosis
@magdalenamlodozeniec9537 Жыл бұрын
I was born to a covert narcissistic mother. I realized a few years ago that she was narcissistic (I'm 61). As a child I kept having dreams of a person appearing with a mask on. When I asked, who are you, the person would say "take off the mask". Unfortunately, there was a mask under every mask I took off. At the age of 58, I realized who was under the mask, my cruel narcissistic mother. Thank you for the explanation of the dynamics. I couldn't go no contact as a child, but I was running away from home and staying with relatives any chance I had. Unfortunately, she damaged me beyond imagination.
@Dolphin36910 ай бұрын
That’s terrifying, my heart goes out to you and your inner child. You WILL heal and recover one day, I wish you the best
@magdalenamlodozeniec953710 ай бұрын
@@Dolphin369 Thank you 💚
@boxelder91473 ай бұрын
Same situation for me. Im 58 yo male. I know exactly what you mean
@DONOHOKINGFAMILY10 ай бұрын
Wow, after 32 years I finally said I can’t take it anymore but he turned my entire family against me and I have been searching for a way to show them what I’ve been through because even when I told them, they just gave me this. Yeah, you’re crazy and you need help Attitude and look and a couple of them even said that to me so guess what.., I am sending your video to all of them! Thank you and God Bless 💝
@INGEN_Dahnie-el-aha-ha6 ай бұрын
How did it go??❤
@WildDuo3 жыл бұрын
"The things that they did when they were mean, that's who that person is." From the bottom of my heart thank you. I needed to hear this.
@augustpriest69453 жыл бұрын
Sadly ,oh how right you are
@amelia5833 жыл бұрын
This is the hardest part for an empath/co-dependent to understand. We insist on believing the narcissist is a good person who has some bad traits, when really they are a bad person who is able to feign being nice at times. Once you truly understand that they are being sincere when they mock, ridicule, gaslight, and smear you, they never look the same. Unfortunately, this can take years to see.
@joannpelliccio-lindgren29693 жыл бұрын
@@amelia583 Very true.
@iluminet3 жыл бұрын
It is true, and this is why they hate themselves so much that they take it out on you. (Hugs)
@iluminet3 жыл бұрын
@@prometheuspredator7971 Look up Jung shadow theory. I think I left another comment on this video about the theory that narcissism is a form of PTSD in which the sufferer rejects their shadow after the trauma and develops a false ego to compensate. Most trauma victims repress instead of denying the shadow and work it out over time. The narcissists denial and development of a false ego would predictably keep them suspended in the anger phase of post trauma. Richard Grannon recently did a video about this.
@MrAuberyCooper3 жыл бұрын
No matter how much they cry, No matter how much they beg... Never feed them after midnight !
@racerx53793 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@realnettieb3 жыл бұрын
Wow
@wendytimms45153 жыл бұрын
That's brilliant!
@MrAuberyCooper3 жыл бұрын
@@wendytimms4515 - from the movie, "Gremlins".
@wendytimms45153 жыл бұрын
@@MrAuberyCooper I haven't seen that movie. I'll have to check it out. Thanks
@sashagabor76 Жыл бұрын
Omg thank you!! He had all the narcissistic traits but he would cry and be the victim and be depressed and I couldn't understand how he could be so vulnerable then an hour later be his normal evil narcissistic self! This was so eye-opening, I definitely feel less crazy! 😂
@wicket_gate5 ай бұрын
What an Idiot. A guy crying over nothing? eesh
@phil13534 ай бұрын
Sounds like a fearful avoidant to me. Not a narcissist.
@Retreat_Hell9 ай бұрын
My comment may be 3 years later, and the bottom of 10,000 comments, but I wanted to thank you because this video is exactly when I needed today. I just hope that you get to read it because today you've earned complete gratitude from this Empath. Thank you
@jennifermichaels64812 жыл бұрын
Having had been married twice, once to a grandiose narcissist then to a covert narcissist, I realized my empath personality attracted them. I had to learn to get help for myself in order to trust that I will not allow another narcissist to try and destroy me. For years I felt completely insane.
@micheleshively85572 жыл бұрын
Same. 40 plus years with 2 different narcs. Insane is correct
@jolesliewhitten65452 жыл бұрын
I did EXACTLY the same thing-driven crazy for 39 years!
@cynthiamccloud33422 жыл бұрын
I been with him for 35 YEARS AND he think he SLICK, IT IS SHOCKING TO KNOW MY HUSBAND IS A NARCISSIST AND A NASTY PERVERT TOO!
@jolesliewhitten65452 жыл бұрын
@@cynthiamccloud3342 , I’m SO SORRY. plan quietly and run!
@skepticalchar98062 жыл бұрын
3 in a row: 1) married off at 19 to an abusive cross dressing fetishist who did drugs, cheated and beat me for 10 years. All of my twenties, gone! Left with two kids. 2) thought my suffering was over. Met a Turkish government official who I had amazingly intellectual conversations with, six years In he is hitting me, verbally abusing me, stonewalling me for weeks at a time, etc. Thirties, gone! 3) cry about my horrible misfortune, man claims to be victim of the same, we date and things are wonderful. Move in, he begins to lose his jobs, does drugs, find out he has children he never claimed, trolls craigslist for sex, borrows money and never repays, ignores me for months when I ask him to go to therapy, etc. I'm now 46. I never had a decent partner, ever. I am convinced men are freaking evil and narcissistic by their very nature. I'm in therapy, but I will NEVER date a man again after the crap they have done to me. I still look good and get asked out all the time, but men gross me out, might as well have sex with an actual demon, same thing!
@jimmyjack70303 жыл бұрын
The bully/victim narracist. You just explained the context of the book "the sociopath next door". They seek out pity then exploit you. 100% correct.
@mandimogridge347611 ай бұрын
Thank you! Finally I have found you. I have never found anyone who explained covert narcissists so well. I am now convinced I wasn’t going mad after all. This is so true of their character 😊
@alexandrac59111 ай бұрын
I JUST put the pieces together this week that my mom is a covert narcissist. Up to this point, all I knew was that she was extremely controlling and that communicating with her was deeply confusing. I always felt upset and bewildered after talking to her without knowing why. I didn't have a name for this weird collection of behaviours and there isn't grandiosity, so I missed it for decades. Figuring this out has been very sad but liberating. I finally have a name and a roadmap.
@DKYarborough11 ай бұрын
My sister and I just discovered the term “covert narcissist” a few years back. It describes my mom perfectly. She used to pull this stunt where we as a family would have decided, for example, “let’s go eat at Restaurant A,” and my mom would just keep needling and complaining about how she doesn’t like Restaurant A and how nobody ever listens to her, just needling and needling, until my dad would finally break and say to her, “Okay!! Where do you want to go eat?!” And she would stop talking, wouldn’t say anything, sometimes for hours, so that my dad is frustrated, and kid me was crying because I just wanted to go eat and was now in a room full of emotional extremes. She would then make herself sick from NOT eating, even though we did our best to bring her something she might eat, and we were responsible for making her ill. I get worked up just thinking about it. She had some hard knocks in her youth, but at some point she chose to become a full-time victim. “Crazymaking” is the best term for it.
@selfesteem344710 ай бұрын
alexandra, Sad but liberating is how I felt when I learned also. Hugs🌻 best wishes.
Had the same thing happen to me but with my father. Wish I had known this 15 years ago but all we can do is try to heal, been no contact for a bit over a week and blocked all calls/texts so that I don't get caught in passive abuse by abusive/gaslighting texts. Amazing how watching these videos is like having someone describing exactly what's happened as if they were there.
@Cheryl_Frazier4 жыл бұрын
Going through a breakup with a fragile narcissist is SO isolating because most everyone you know mutually sees your partner in such a different light - the one they portray when people are around. Therefore there are hardly people to talk to about it and thus my other long post. Thankful for people who get it!
@thenarcxorcist92334 жыл бұрын
Totally agree! It's a lonely road because everyone sees them as quiet, humble and they wouldnt be able to wrap their heads around the truth we know.
@tiger-resssparkle26864 жыл бұрын
I u. Derstand they change in fro t of others then treat u badly but so sweet overly to others
@Kristin-mt2jw4 жыл бұрын
It’s horrible, they are con artists. Taking video might help. Give it a try...😉
@Cheryl_Frazier4 жыл бұрын
@@thenarcxorcist9233 Exactly!! Just ran into some friends who knew him before we met and THEY understand, which is so helpful.
@Cheryl_Frazier4 жыл бұрын
@@tiger-resssparkle2686 Yes!! It's so frustrating!!
@lolohenderson64753 жыл бұрын
I just got out a relationship with someone that left me more confused every time we spoke. We never solved anything!! I knew something was wrong!! Crazy making is a nice way to put it!!
@hollymesser17612 жыл бұрын
Never resolving even the simplest of problems is a hallmark of the time spent babying them. There cannot be closure w these types !!
@mmommo-hx4dx2 жыл бұрын
mine did it for 37 years. im free now, so happy I cry
@FreeRangeLunatic2 жыл бұрын
Yep, that seems to never get better. I never got answers. And I barely escaped from my own chaos he caused inside me. Congratulations and stay safe and away.
@anthonyshepherd12222 жыл бұрын
I was in a 12 year marriage like this…surprised I’m still here!
@Mo.19882 жыл бұрын
And you stayed because??
@pattyterry643210 ай бұрын
“ The things they did when they were mean, THATS WHO THEY ARE!” Wow!! That makes it simple to diagnose! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
@roxystarlite41068 ай бұрын
The confusion was so bad I was gaslighting myself.....I still have issues not trusting myself
@vanessasouthern17924 жыл бұрын
I'm walking away after 44 years. Barely making it out alive. I'm on my knees. ADVICE: RUN. Run away and NEVER LOOK BACK.... while you still can... before you are so disabled by it and confused that you are trapped forever. Trust me 🙏
@patiencefullerton62504 жыл бұрын
Sending you prayers & peace 💌
@Exiria3 жыл бұрын
:( this made me cry
@sagradoish3 жыл бұрын
🙁😢😭😭😭
@Ayawahamin3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you're choosing YOU now 🔥🙌♥️🌿💕🌞 It's never too late to choose yourself. I can relate. I've just left my husband after knowing him for 10 years. Before him I'd already spent 19 split between two other narcissists. One grandiose, one I can now understand was half grandiose half covert. I did NOT understand until I'm seeing this video just why my fragile covert husband was able to hurt me so successfully. I get it now. I'm SICK to realise I've now spent nearly 30 years in these similar hell's and it cost me material things and so much more, again! But, I hope that you too will not shame yourself for having had such a big heart that you put theirs ahead of your heart and mind. I did it too. But we've made it! We are OUT, and that's HUGE!!! Congratulations friend. This is the beginning of your journey in giving yourself, everything they PRETENDED to give to you. Be well and I am rooting for you. There is no shame here, only learning. 🌞💕🌿🙌🔥😄
@stellastempletarot3 жыл бұрын
It's so easily done Vanessa my longest stint was 14 years and if I hadn't woke up and got out I would have been a shadow by now. Enjoy your freedom x
@themousethatroared33712 жыл бұрын
He got me with a horrific sob story combined with extreme love bombing. I always felt like the red carpet he rolled out for me turned out to be attached to a roller coaster during an earthquake. I was in a constant state of confusion and and being thrown off balance. Thankfully he discarded me rather quickly and I used the experience to self reflect and work on my own codependency issues.
@sitascott84462 жыл бұрын
@The Mouse That Roared Excellent description!
@adinashaina99772 жыл бұрын
@@sitascott8446 I second that up bump
@corysmith34472 жыл бұрын
most psychologists who evalutate other people are narccists who get narrsitic supply by doing so according to prof sam vahkim
@diannawhitefield30872 жыл бұрын
It was more like being strangled and let go strangled again over and over!
@nicoleandthings13902 жыл бұрын
I experienced the same thing.
@futureshocked Жыл бұрын
I started to realize my ex's fragile narcissism/avoidance because...she essentially told me. The thing is though she thought she was just talking about avoidance but really she didn't understand that the same language is for narcissists as well. And I started seeing it all through her life--avoiding financial issues, friends who didn't seem to all like each other really, unable to show emotions with family, always the victim for EVERYTHING (as in freaking out because her sister was mad about an off hand but basically harmless joke she told). I saw all this and stayed because...I'm formerly avoidant. I was hoping to be a good example but there's just no way. The thing is when you're on top, they're on top. But when you're sinking or being your actual vulnerable self and they will have...nothing. They will not be there for you, not really. They'll literally escape back into relationship spaces or arguments that you already had or already "both" made decisions over. But they will bring them back up as though you both had not talked about those things. I did get that closure, and I got it by calling her the fuck out and BEING KIND. Being way past them and just showing them that there was nothing to even be afraid of by just talking to you--which is what they do, they just stop talking.
@suebar51774 ай бұрын
Wow it is so clear now...after 25yrs of this insanity/confusion. Guilt, blame and rage were his tools. No more - no contact!
@SandraMel11092 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how I WOULD NEVER allow anyone to talk to me the way he did. When it came to him though? I would just sit there and take it; ended up apologizing for making him do the things he did. Smh
@sandygrays40662 жыл бұрын
Run run run.... Taking the blame for something you didn't do.... And don't look back put him in your rear view mirror keep it moving..... Be well
@gianniclaud2 жыл бұрын
Me too. I just took it… I’m so back and forth it’s driving me nuts
@YourNameHere1412 жыл бұрын
This comment right here explains my four year relationship... Rediculous
@eurokay47552 жыл бұрын
My covert mom will say, "But that's just the way he is, and he's your brother. Family is everything." Then she'll point out how he's ruined his own life by bullying and abusing everyone, lives alone in a mobile home, etc. trying to guilt me into acting like his abuse is o.k. to make HER feel better. Alternately, she'll insult, belittle, accuse, etc. me or act as if I'm the impulsive or untrustworthy one. She's a skilled covert narcissist who enables my malignant overt narcissist older brother.
@graceanneful2 жыл бұрын
Ah ha spot on! Yep!
@mynewlife1911 Жыл бұрын
I went no contact in March 2022 and have kept no contact. There’s been up and downs and all-arounds emotionally but my life has improved greatly. I bought a hobby farm, my true passion, I have two cows, a donkey, greenhouses and so much more. I don’t miss my old life w those narcs. I do feel haunted at times still by the old painful memories but I’ll take that and working through that over actually living w narcs on a daily basis. Narcs in my opinion are demonic and will destroy you. It’s a blessing to have escaped and an honor to have my new farm life walking daily w Mother Nature and the Divine. Much love and light sent to all good kind loving souls❤
@fibanocci3144 ай бұрын
Good for you! I hope your farm continues to prosper!
@emilyjayne7710 ай бұрын
It’s difficult when the narcissist is your mother 💔
@normanclatcher20 күн бұрын
Can be. I'm getting over mine. 💞
@Amberguymerhosking4 күн бұрын
I feel this. Trying to release myself now xx
@giddyup101825 күн бұрын
I've been friends with someone for a bit over 8 years. Four years ago, I started seeing a shift in our friendship. Two years ago, there were bigger changes in the sense of her periodically insulting, demeaning or embarrassing me. I finally figured out her pattern - gifts, compliments, insults, apologies and on and on. I stopped chatting online with her about 6 months ago. The hard part is that she boards her horse at the same farm where I board mine. She noticed my aloofness and wrote to me, apologizing for "whatever she had said or done...or didn't say". Her horse has had some lameness and she included that she was thinking of putting her down. I also knew that was a manipulation. I took two days to think about and compose a long email, totally calling her out about the patterns and manipulations. I even equated her behavior to my ex-husband. I told her I didn't deserve it and wouldn't put up with it. I did say I'd be civil if I saw her at the farm but that was it. Apologies and hugs would no longer work. She's been totally avoiding me which is the most I could ask for. This video totally pegged who she is.
@crosa64223 жыл бұрын
nailed it! victim mentality .... even when they are doing the victimizing.
@dianedeclare85413 жыл бұрын
bullies who pretend to be victims. for eg. they will present u as the problem cuz they deny their own culpability. what hurts is that they get some people to believe their lies about u - getting others to shun u. 5 year olds do this when they point the finger cuz they do not want to get caught or accept responsibility for their own behaviour. Smear campaign.
@sarawhitmire79673 жыл бұрын
How does that happen??? I am this victim to the extreme and destroy any credibility to 99% of anybody. I am this awful abuser and just iout of control. Not even in range of any way
@margomazzeo16803 жыл бұрын
Sadly..so familiar with this..
@supermanifold2 жыл бұрын
it's sick!
@janineparker30412 жыл бұрын
My husband (8 years) and I spent the whole weekend planting flowers and vegetables and enjoying each other's company. So nice after a 22 year marriage to a covert, walking on eggshells and just wanting to die.
@oscarwilliamson61632 жыл бұрын
Janine Parker,You deserve better
@Private245602 жыл бұрын
Same type of thing here... I'm like wtf?!?
@realliving7340 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on true love. You give me hope🥰
@sp3g56 Жыл бұрын
Wow sounds like a dream. So happy for you.
@SamskaraSystem Жыл бұрын
I keep coming back. This was the video that did it for me and got me the hell away Thank you, Richard!!!
@joebayless6177 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much. Of all the information out there, this finally sheds light on how these covert narcissists remain successful in manipulating compassionate empathetic individuals.
@judywhittlesey40104 жыл бұрын
I now know with all my being: When someone SHOWS you who they are BELIEVE THEM! Do not make excuses for them, they may temporarily change, to get what they want, but it is ALWAYS temporary.
@mikescorpio134 жыл бұрын
That is my number one rule.Once the true face is out that person is blocked automatically.
@LauraLocks34 жыл бұрын
Amen
@jensbasement38624 жыл бұрын
This is why it feels so wrong to leave them, its akin to abandoning the part of your soul that wants to help others because of the pity. All the sob stories are really just filler to stall you of your discovery of them. Goes to show that playing victim doesn't make you a nice person
@gatheringmoss57264 жыл бұрын
"filler to stall your discovery of them." That's a great way to put it!
@samanthapowers73414 жыл бұрын
Jen's Basement omg..so true!
@bethflynn42784 жыл бұрын
Absolutely true and was what kept me stuck for 36 years. I got out and moved 1500 miles away. He keeps telling my son that he is going to win me back but his siblings story no longer has any effect on me!
@RedroomStudios4 жыл бұрын
omg... I cant stand the victim mentality! un every situation, even when they are shitting on you and blaming you for something you didnt do they are the victim!
@grungestoryteller4 жыл бұрын
You can't help them. Not possible
@karinaevans98324 ай бұрын
I’ve been looking up videos to understand why my head is spinning over my 7 year relationship that I ended and said he had to move out in a month. Things have been exactly as you described. This has been one of the biggest emotional roller coasters I’ve ever been on. Thank you so much for confirming what my intuition has been trying to tell me. I didn’t understand there was a vulnerable type and so now it makes so much sense. This really helps me. Thank you so much for making this video. Life changing for me.
@brigitabaumgardner207Ай бұрын
Thank you for this video! My eyes have finally been open to the fact my husband is a narcissist. I have finally separated from him after 13 yrs. He is the covert/vulnerable type. I would tell people what he does is crazy making and it seems like he had multiple personalities. It all just makes sense now!
@goldilocks35934 жыл бұрын
So bang on. A true covert literally oozes “pity me” energy. It is like a magnet for an empath. Oh boy someone to fix!! 😂😂 yeah - no. That will be a HUGE red flag going forward.
@johnwirk4 жыл бұрын
I cant speak for all but alot of empaths have already got issues OURSELVES and we lower our expectations a bit, swoop in on someone who is "economically equal" to us or worse, and think we will rise from the ashes together......pffft....just like a moth to a bug zapper we are....and we end with the proverbial "pstzzzzzzzzzzzzta PAP" Lesson learned I guess
@penyarol834 жыл бұрын
@@johnwirk great imagery lol
@joey3rony4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Once you figured them out, run! Don't go slow, don't walk, RUN! The thing about being an empath, I saw him an his damaged self, next time he crosses my way (which will not happen from my part) I am going to fucking break him. No supply from me anymore
@riannemutsaers2 жыл бұрын
This is describing my ex. Went through 14 years of misery and after that 18 months therapy to heal. My regret is not leaving earlier, such a waste of precious time. Everyone reading and listening and still with the narc ... get out and go no contact!!!
@mammadingo91652 жыл бұрын
I struggle with thinking of things as a waste of time though it clearly seems that way , coming up 16 years ... I'm still trying to figure out how I got here ! Building my lovely house in hell , confusion an understatement . Thanks for sharing ✌️🌻
@jar74222 жыл бұрын
Mine was 16 years. Took me 3-4 years to start to understand what I even went through. I felt "robbed" of those years. That was the only word I was able to come up with. Most people don't understand that.
@ericaholmstrom71112 жыл бұрын
I have a covert narcissist ex too. I choose to see no time as wasted though. I hate to read about regret and wasted time. I know that you are the amazing woman you are today because of that experience (no matter how hellish). Much love to you and all on our continued journey of being our highest self!
@bronwyntanner45012 жыл бұрын
I did 14 years too. Happy joyous and free since June 2017. Healing and growth and recovery daily since then
@jar74222 жыл бұрын
@@cyemw777 that's what I thought too..... Then God showed me something. Were my boys learning how to treat their future wives? Was my daughter truly learning how to be loved by a future husband? No. To both questions. It was for them that I said ENOUGH. You can do it.
@monithomas8985 Жыл бұрын
Exactly what it is! I had long years suffered in such relationships- seemed to meet them everywhere🐥- glad to notice earlier now. Glad to get out earlier, less suffering, more self awareness, self esteem. This the most important, acording to my experience. Such a good explanation helps further. Bless You! Thank You so much!!!
@J875137 ай бұрын
My real point of turning around after being married for eight years was when I wrote a list of all her incidents and behaviors since we got married. Took me a few weeks but when I looked that list over I realized who she really was, a nut job! This really helped me finally get a birds eye view on her which I was not able to do for all these years.
@niftynic1152 жыл бұрын
My mom is a covert and my dad was a grandiose. You can only imagine the fear and manipulation I lived through as a child all while pretending everything was fantastic to other people.
@henkdebanaan92402 жыл бұрын
Are you me?
@Luubelaar2 жыл бұрын
I don't need to imagine. I lived it. It sucks big time. *hugs *
@niftynic1152 жыл бұрын
apparently it's a common theme for those of us raised by boomers.
@kellicoulombe12982 жыл бұрын
Yikes! :(
@dodo18592 жыл бұрын
Same 😔
@emedwards75083 жыл бұрын
You know you’re healing when you cringe and have a little chuckle to yourself about how you fell for a covert and continued for months/years to feel sorry for them and question my own sanity for being ignored/fell for stories about childhood trauma. I watch these videos to remind me why I’m on the right path 💪
@lyrhichjones17373 жыл бұрын
Yes! Amen
@frankd.brennan65203 жыл бұрын
Amen
@tamaraelo82532 жыл бұрын
Amen
@valerieallison26092 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@SherryONeill2 жыл бұрын
Me Too🙏
@PaperDolly86Ай бұрын
Finally! It makes sense! Thank you for clearing up my confusion 2 years after the discard. I’m so grateful for this video 🙏
@melodiejohnston95288 күн бұрын
Thank you for this. I feel ill and a kind of relief all at once. I am grateful for the insight and a small amount of validation.
@dredriesen2827 Жыл бұрын
This really describes my mother. She turns literally everything into self-pity and then throws it at you and makes you responsible for it. If you don't give in, she can get as cold as a stone and say the most horrible things.
@davinagibson1665 Жыл бұрын
Yep, mine too! To a "T"..! Shame my siblings can't see it, and are so trauma bonded and still "fighting" over her like little kids(which she loves and causes..🙄)
@AZDC99 Жыл бұрын
@@davinagibson1665 it's an ironic term use.. but I AM with you! (It's the "Terrible Twos" for THOSE PEOPLE.... If I'm allowed to even say so nowadays!)
@ragnar999tobi Жыл бұрын
same here, explains why I always got attracted to those fucked up witches.... but the last one I met was a grandiose narcissist that collapsed to a vulnerable XD and she was not very bright.....from a super lawyer to a drunk tinder hooker trying to make some money at night and trying to find a doctor or businessman that takes her in XD she is 44 and hitting the wall, I feel sorry for her little 9 yearl old daughter...they are living from social support, and are put in hostels or governmental institutes I met them in a hostel in Portugal where I stayed before I started to work and to live in my shared apartment. She gave me her fake CV with which I tried to apply her for jobs but got rejections and even block on one company portal because she faked some of her diploms....these people are very stupid...believing they cannot be caught...
@kirstenhorte5488 Жыл бұрын
My mother is the same 🤕🤕
@Christ100 Жыл бұрын
Well you are all cold as stone to the suffering impoverished who you demand bend to your idea of how things should be, so.... Matthew 25
@melpannack82454 жыл бұрын
OMG, after 8 years after divorce, I've just realised why I felt I was constantly in a battle between guilt and pity in my past marriage. I felt I was manipulated all the time by a hyper moody bastard.
@pchsndcrmfrvr10 ай бұрын
This is one of the best yet. I have seen so many videos, but how he explains the psychology of the fragile narcissist. This is exactly my experience and it is so cruel.