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August 1, 2019

Boundaries Protect You from Narcissists and Borderlines, Part 1: The Golden Rule

If you’ve been in a relationship (or series of relationships) with emotionally manipulative, self-absorbed, empathy-challenged, immature people, I have to ask, do you have healthy boundaries? Any boundaries? Do you know what a boundary is? Perhaps you have some boundaries, but they were too anemic to deter a determined emotional predator. Thus, your boundaries were […]

Filed Under: Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Codependent, Dating, Healing, Healthy Relationships, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tagged With: borderlines, boundaries, healthy boundaries, narcissistic abuse, narcissists

June 25, 2018

Narcissist Dictionary: “Why Are You Being So Mean!?!” (DARVO)

Want to see a narcissist, psychopath or borderline go from aggressor to professional victim in .001 seconds flat? That’s easy. It typically happens whenever the narcissist is held accountable, publicly exposed for their misdeeds or actual crimes or someone pushed back and treated the narcissist the way the narcissist treats others. If you’re on the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: abusive women, narcissists

May 14, 2018

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 […]

Filed Under: Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tagged With: borderline personality disorder, communication, conflict, high-conflict people, JADE, lying, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, narcissists

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