There are steps you can take to protect yourself from becoming a victim of a narcissist’s games and changing the relationship dynamic.
Growing Through Divorce
Its stages – cognitive, emotional, physical, legal, and spiritual – if worked through, can substantially lessen your pain.
Its stages – cognitive, emotional, physical, legal, and spiritual – if worked through, can substantially lessen your pain.
Breaking the Cycle of Abandonment
People tend to think of abandonment as something physical, like neglect. Loss of physical closeness due to death, divorce, and illness is also an emotional abandonment. It also happens when our emotional needs aren’t being met in the relationship – including in our relationship with ourselves.
People tend to think of abandonment as something physical, like neglect. Loss of physical closeness due to death, divorce, and illness is also an emotional abandonment. It also happens when our emotional needs aren’t being met in the relationship – including in our relationship with ourselves.
How to Spot Manipulation
Manipulation is a way to covertly influence someone with indirect, deceptive, or abusive tactics. Manipulation may seem benign or even friendly or flattering, as if the person has your highest concern in mind, but in reality, it’s to achieve an ulterior motive.
Manipulation is a way to covertly influence someone with indirect, deceptive, or abusive tactics. Manipulation may seem benign or even friendly or flattering, as if the person has your highest concern in mind, but in reality, it’s to achieve an ulterior motive.
How to Change Your Attachment Style
We seek or avoid intimacy along a continuum, but one of the following three styles is generally predominant whether we’re dating or in a long-term marriage.
We seek or avoid intimacy along a continuum, but one of the following three styles is generally predominant whether we’re dating or in a long-term marriage.
Love, Lust, or Addiction?
True love does require that we recognize our separateness and love our mate for who he or she truly is.
True love does require that we recognize our separateness and love our mate for who he or she truly is.
Living With an Addict- Alcohol
There is hope, and there is help for the addict and for codependent family members.
There is hope, and there is help for the addict and for codependent family members.
Beware of the Dark Triad
Dark Triad refers to three unusually negative personality traits—narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
Dark Triad refers to three unusually negative personality traits—narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
How To Spot a Narcissist
Someone with NPD is grandiose (sometimes only in fantasy), lacks empathy, and seeks admiration from others, as indicated by five of these summarized characteristics.
Someone with NPD is grandiose (sometimes only in fantasy), lacks empathy, and seeks admiration from others, as indicated by five of these summarized characteristics.
Holiday Blues
This time of year is especially difficult because there’s an expectation of feeling merry and generous. People compare their emotions to what they assume others are experiencing or what they’re supposed to feel and then think that they alone fall short.
This time of year is especially difficult because there’s an expectation of feeling merry and generous. People compare their emotions to what they assume others are experiencing or what they’re supposed to feel and then think that they alone fall short.
Loving a Borderline
If you like drama, excitement, and intensity, enjoy the ride, because things will never be calm.
If you like drama, excitement, and intensity, enjoy the ride, because things will never be calm.
What is Toxic Shame?
Unlike ordinary shame, “internalized shame” hangs around and alters our self-image.
Unlike ordinary shame, “internalized shame” hangs around and alters our self-image.
The Problem of Narcissists
Their inflated self-flattery, perfectionism, and arrogance are merely covers for the self-loathing they don’t admit–usually even to themselves.
Their inflated self-flattery, perfectionism, and arrogance are merely covers for the self-loathing they don’t admit–usually even to themselves.
Interrupting the Cycle of Pain
Things we take for granted, such as eating, sleeping, dressing, walking, laughing, working, and socializing may be lost to a person with chronic pain.
Things we take for granted, such as eating, sleeping, dressing, walking, laughing, working, and socializing may be lost to a person with chronic pain.
Can You Love Too Much?
If we grew up in a troubled environment, we might confuse our pain with love. Although relationships have disappointments and conflicts, love isn’t supposed to be painful and hurt so much.
If we grew up in a troubled environment, we might confuse our pain with love. Although relationships have disappointments and conflicts, love isn’t supposed to be painful and hurt so much.
Breaking the Cycle of Abandonment
Being able to care for ourselves allows us to hold the space for our partner and to take care of ourselves. Whether or not in a relationship, that’s the ultimate remedy against spiraling into an abandonment depression.
Being able to care for ourselves allows us to hold the space for our partner and to take care of ourselves. Whether or not in a relationship, that’s the ultimate remedy against spiraling into an abandonment depression.