Have you ever known someone who seems confident, and charming and “bombs” you with extreme displays of attention and affection first, but over time reveals a pattern of entitlement, lack of empathy, and need for excessive admiration? These could be signs of narcissistic personality disorder, a condition marked by an inflated sense of self-importance.
Few initial interpersonal dynamics feel more paradoxical than loving someone who wounds you. When that loved one is a narcissist — someone bombarding you with manipulation,
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