Covert Narcissism — ( Archived) (69)

All narcissists are a**hole but not all a**hole are narcissists.
The lack of empathy for our feelings and their refusal to own any responsibility their actions have caused. Also an unwillingness to compromise emotionally; it's all about them all the time, a ton of lies from little to big and when those lies are discovered, Narcissist would not admit they were lies but would rationalize his/her reasons for hiding them. Narcissist is always in search of supply, not that Narcissist care about you at all.
Narcissist will always find a way to use and exploit Co-dependent even in underhanded ways.
There is also a difference between possessing empathy but choosing not to exert the energy to express it or being completely incapable of empathy.
Narcissist manipulative tactic and style is the nice cycle with love bombing and telling you what he/she think you want to hear. If one watches Narcissist actions and not his/her words, it can make a big difference in choosing the escape plan .... or becoming depressed and loosing self esteem.
After nice love bombing cycle it's starts another period of devaluing victim, getting angry if you would not do what he/she want you to do or punishing you by using SILENCE treatment.
Looking at a person's value system as evidenced through their actions, not their words will give an idea about character.Although, it's tricky because pathologically deceitful people can put on quite the act.
The thing is they can't always keep it up and you have to watch what seeps through the seams of their mask.Not easy...except if you're already have past experience with a Narcissist a**hole, man or women Narcissist, I don't care, they are Evil.

So why not just call them arseholes? ...Because using amateur psychobabble words make people think they appear more knowledgeable than they actually are, which itself is narcissistic.

My financial status is irrelevant

Narcissus ended poorly ....

Didn’t he just die form staring lon at his reflection in a river

Jesus, I didnt realise he died. I thought he only turned into stone. But maybe that was Oedopus after he rooted his mum. Greek law is so confusing at times.

I think that was Medusa who could make people turn into stone, but it could also be any other person from the Greek mythology

I guess turning into stone was a real concern back in the day. Must have been very easy to scare people, just point to a pile of rocks and say- you wanna end up like him?