He yells at you for folding the towels wrong or accuses you of having a fling with someone on Facebook. A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown.
Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so. Do not go down with that sinking scorpion!
He will turn on the nice when he feels you backing away. He will be nice when he feels that the source you provide is threatened. He likes the fun of manipulating and controlling you. He does this by being nice. Tags: front lines , narcissism , narcissist behavior , narcissistic behavior , NPD.
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Narcissistic Mothers Being Nice. This can be very confusing. You need to play by the rules, and then all is well. Return To: Home. Privacy Overview This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. W e pretty much know what narcissism is by now. They have the perfect platform in a culture obsessed with both celebrity and social media.
They rule countries, they mesmerise, they manipulate and wreak havoc. But beyond the more showy and recognisable type lurks a lesser known and essentially more dangerous sub-species. But that mask is a bewitching one.
As someone who was reeled in over the years by their addictive intoxications, I have written about a narcissist whose charms creep up gradually in my latest novel. In real life, it was someone who possessed the more discreet qualities of the covert narcissist who drew me in the most deeply, even when I thought I was forewarned and immune after being attracted by more shimmering personalities.
It was slow, it was insidious, it took much soul-searching to understand that what I was interacting with was a series of constructed personae so convincing, they masked an essential emptiness. Your classic narcissist fills the world with a drug-like sense of scintillation and intrigue, vacuuming up attention and admiration and, at least ostensibly, living an exciting existence. Or more. Lorna Slade is a psychotherapist who specialises in healing from narcissistic abuse.
Theirs is a much more laser-targeted revenge. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
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