Form a club against the rat! I'm not kidding! This isn't about the subject of cheating and you have to face the other woman. Both of you are victims. Narcissists can be mental abusers and do damage to their victims because they love to play games and think they are much more highly intelligent than the majority of people (of course it's in their own imagination.) Perhaps you should rent one of my favorite movies "First Wives Club" and how 3 women got together after the way their husbands had treated them. One had cheated, the other had used his actress wife to get where he wanted and then cheated on her, and the other woman thought she had the perfect marriage and found out different and went for counseling re a female psychologist who was the very one that was having the affair with her husband! While this movie is funny it also shows women what can be possible and how to take a bad problem and turn it around to something good. Right now I have some heavy problem solving to do and although I know they are serious problems I always make a joke about it with my close friends and then we have a good laugh. Laughter is the best medicine! It helps! I also try to change the problems the best I can and move on. So, if you feel like it, sit and talk to the last victim of your ex narcissist, exchange your views, then sit down, have a drink and watch "First Wives Club" and it will give you both some insight of how to make a bad situation better! You can't really solve their problems, but can say that your experience was similar and offer sympathy for what happened to them. It is a huge favor to validate someone's experience. However, you should not offer more than that since the other person needs to recover by solving their own situation. Also, this keeps you out of the loop of that relationship.
You can't. Part of being a narcissist means that they cannot possibly be wrong/disordered/need help.
I don't think so. How can change occur in narcissist whose mother is a narcissist as well, even if she accepts him? The very sickness comes from that lack of emotional support given by the mother at the most crucial time, birth. My mother in law has damaged my husband so much that because he is a product of his environment, he had dished out his madness upon me and his children. Sadly, I am the one who had the mental breakdown and has suffered so much. Is there really help for a narcissist?
The question is help them how? Refer them to counseling, but they don't want to be fixed, though you may want to fix them to be a 'normal' person so you can keep a relationship with them. If you are a lay person and in a relationship with a narcissist, you cannot help them. Just by the nature of your relationship and the pathology of a narcissist, things will get ugly, it will be at your expense and there will be no change in the narcissist. A good therapist will be the one to help a narcissist, but it takes a great deal of work on the part of the narcissist, a commitment to healing, only they don't see themselves as 'broken' or anything wrong with them, so an honest introspective communication with a therapist is rare. It's so hard to understand. Leaving them is best for you though and isn't that sad that that is also the way to help a narcissist, because they are sucking your goodness from you and using it to buoy themselves. So sad.
Talk to someone that you trust about it and get help.
Best guess, it can. There is no other way for a true narcissist to be aware of issues within him or herself.
A narcissist would not want help because he or she would not think there was anything wrong. Therefore, you can't help a narcissist; even when a narcissist is court ordered into therapy, there is little a professional can do to help a person change this personality type.
http://narcissismcured.com/Narcissism_Cured.html
Why would ANYONE want to be with a narcissist? A codependent would be about the only type of personality that could tolerate being with a narcissist, and they will pay a terrible price. Dump the narcissist and get some help with the codependency. ACOA, CODA, Al-anon and Nar-anon are as close as your telephone.
if you shoot his ship he will ask you to help but if he knows you did it he will want your bells
setting boundaries is a must but NO CONTACT is the ONLY thing that "helps"
Yes. Go onto: www.google.com Then type in: Treatment for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?" Don't be surprised to find that there is little help because Narcissists are not labeled "Narcissistic" without a good reason. They feel they are right and everyone else is wrong, so it's highly doubtful they would ever seek counseling and if they did they wouldn't believe what the counselor told them anyway. Few Narcissistic people are every helped and therefore it's difficult to really study a group of people that are narcissistic.
The ladder on the stage comes down and ou can climb up it for safety and help.