Pretty much - they need a worshipper & a scapegoat.
Pathetic how they can't be alone so STAY AWAY from them!
NO!!! Narcissists don't heal. They are teflon emotionally. Just get away from them.
Probably not, they would fight over mirror time. ;)
Please let me apologize in advance for my sarcasm, but I wish this were always the case! If all the narcissists paired up, then they would leave all us normal folks alone... Seriously, I did read somewhere (in Sam Vaknin's site?) that there are two particular "types" of narcissists may do well for a time...Was it an inverted narcissist he was refering to? I don't quite remember.(Google: "inverted narcissist maybe?) I also read that there are folks out there that actually like being in a relationship with a narcissist!
Maybe the person that is a narcissist was trying to hide it.
You should do some serious self analysis to determine why you would try to have an intimate relationship with a person you have described as a narcissist. Hopefully you will eventually decide that you are wasting your time and should move on with your life and find a mate who is capable of caring for and about you as much as you do about him.
The narcissist only wanted needed you to supply their need at that time. Now they have the contract job they don't have a need for you until you have something else that they want that is when they will need you again. If you don't have anything they want to nourish their narcissist supply the have no problem writing you off and forgetting that you ever existed. They have no empathy RUN do not stay in contact with them they will destroy you.
They do not know that anything is wrong with their personality and I reckon that it would take many, many years of (CBT) therapy before they even began to change. And besides, I dont think a narcissist would ever want to get better, they are GOD (at least compared to you) so why would they want to be a mere mortal like the rest of us? Yes. It took time and prayer. Also I was in a relationship with a cerebral narcissist and when they went on a campaign to destroy my life. I saw my own behavior in them and went about changing. I am a Christian and I stay in prayer. It helps a lot.
No a narcissist will always be a narcissist. Don't get involved, you are free now. Be thankful you have escaped the worse time in your life and can move on. the narcissist wil try to make it look and sound like he is so much better to her, because that will further his need to make you feel like you don't matter, if you did, you would have treated you well, too. in reality, he is treating her just as bad as he did you, and probably rubs you in her face, too!
Yes, I believe that this is true, it doesn't have to be another woman. I have recently witnessed someone that I believe is a narcissist (but not a malignant narcissist) go FROM an NS of male friends TO an NS of another woman. But the male friends were the NS for quite some time. I think the narcissist will use as an NS anyone - male or female - that satisfies his need for narcissistic supply.
Yes Narcissist cheats. I have read one who satisfies their narcissistic supply with sex is called a Somatic Narcissist. My ex married one-and he is a pathological narcissist as I know I lived it-It is the most insidious emotional abuse one can encounter- A Somatic Narcissist tends to be very promiscuous-she/he disregards her marriage and have multiple affairs just to satisfy their need for narcissist supply -Admiration-power--The Somatic Narcissist will capture you - control you with their sexual seduction and when he/she has you completely in their control her true self will come out-cruel and unemotional-and when you no longer satisfy their narcissistic supply the Somatic Narcissist will leave you as quickly as he/she entered your life-and onto the next-As I understand Somatic Narcissist have many affairs --regardless married or not. Question what happens when one Narcissist marries another Narcissist-it should be interesting to watch
all the time. communication in a must in order to have a successful relationship
They invalidate their every thought and word and deed and they don't let them have their own boundaries. The children then have to suppress any sense of self in order to fit in with their parent's need to be right all the time. the child develops a personality disorder and the trauma they had as children affects their every relationship with other humans in the future. Therapy is vital.