Everyone loves a winner! Okay sure, but what is winning? You can win the lottery, or other games of chance. But, that’s random dumb luck. To win at sports, chess or competitive quizzes, for example, requires skill, regular practice, strategy and intelligence. Winning friends, admiration and public opinion involves emotional intelligence, personal salesmanship and some […]
How Narcissists Twist and Use Words Against You
Communicating with narcissists . . . why do we bother? I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Between their penchant for tossing word salad, pathological lying, broken promises, deliberate provocations, pretzel twisting words, putting words in your mouth that were never there — it’s both pointless and exhausting. Unless, of course, the narcissist or borderline is […]
Narcissist Fight Club Rule #5: Defending Yourself Makes You More Vulnerable
Arguing with narcissists, borderlines, psychopaths and other emotionally immature and unstable personalities is usually a pointless exercise for several reasons. First, narcissists aren’t interested in equitable solutions. They want to “win.” In my experience, they’re the most determined to win (i.e., punish you), when they’re objectively wrong. They take perverse pleasure in getting others to […]
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