If you’re not susceptible to flattery, you likely won’t be susceptible to love bombing. Love bombing or idealization is the pathological version of the honeymoon stage in healthier relationships. It’s an insincere manipulation tactic, or con job. The person with whom you think you’re falling in love doesn’t really exist. Narcissists, borderlines and other emotional […]
Blame and Rage: What Narcissists and Borderlines Call Problem-Solving [Video]
Emotionally immature people typically have poor problem-solving skills, or a complete lack of them. In intimate relationships, narcissists and borderlines bully, guilt trip, play the victim, throw tantrums, become physically violent, destroy property, disappear, give the silent treatment, name-call, blame shift and engage in other dysfunctional behaviors to silence criticism, evade accountability and justify not […]
Adult Toddlers, Part 1: Traits of Emotionally Immature Narcissists and Borderlines
Since beginning Shrink4Men in 2009, I’ve frequently described narcissists, borderlines, psychopaths, histrionics and other emotionally immature individuals as children in adult bodies, or emotional toddlers. That’s because these individuals think, relate and behave much younger than their actual physical age. In other words, they exhibit a persistent lifelong pattern of emotional and psychological immaturity. In […]
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