Ross Rosenberg explains why loving a narcissist is a form of addiction driven by pathological fear of loneliness.
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Why do they always come back to a person who hurts them, ignores them, triangulates them, poisons the minds of their children? … It’s an addiction. And it’s the compulsion for something that you think can make you feel good, that you think you can control, and it messes with your logical and rational thinking, and despite your best effort, you can’t control it, and you’re dealing with the consequences, and you sink further into loneliness.
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