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August 20, 2019

That’s Not Normal: Narcissists Study You to Better Manipulate You [Meme]

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 […]

Filed Under: Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Codependent, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Meme, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tagged With: codependency, false selves, love bombing, meme, That's not normal

February 7, 2018

Narcissist Fight Club Rule #4: Facts Are Meaningless

If you’ve been in a relationship with a narcissist, borderline, psychopath or histrionic, you probably understand why these personalities are also referred to as high-conflict people. It’s because they chronically manufacture an overwhelming amount of conflict, chaos and drama. Just when you catch your breath, they’re back at it. Provoking, projecting, gaslighting, tantrum-ing, exaggerating, pouting, […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: abandonment, abuse, abusive wife, appeasement, blame shifting, borderline personality disorder, codependency, codependent, compulsive liars, crazy girlfriend, DARVO, duping delight, emotional reasoning, enable, enabling, false self, gaslighting, histrionic personality disorder, histrionics, idealization, JADE, love bombing, narcisisst, narcissism, narcissist club rules, narcissistic personality disorder, personality disorders, professional victim, projection, projective identification, psychopaths

February 5, 2018

10 Ways Narcissists and Borderlines Abuse Text Messages and Use Emojis

As part of my work with clients, I sometimes review text communications from abusive and likely personality disordered spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends and exes. It’s not exactly what one would describe as enjoyable reading material. Much of it is venomous, relentless, dictatorial and angry bloviating sentence fragments or walls of text dripping with entitlement. The texts […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Relationship Advice Tagged With: abuse, abusive text messages, abusive wife, blocking, borderline personality disorder, codependency, crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend, histrionic personality disorder, histrionics, low contact no contact, name-calling, narcisisst, narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder, personality disorders, psychopaths

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