Do narcissists care about your feelings?
People who love narcissists are starved for many of these expressions of love. Sometimes, narcissists are remote, dismissive, or aggressive; other times, they show care and concern and are helpful. It’s not that narcissists are incapable of feeling or even intellectually understanding someone’s feelings.
How do you get a narcissist to understand your feelings?
10 Tips for Dealing with a Narcissistic Personality
- Accept them.
- Break the spell.
- Speak up.
- Set boundaries.
- Expect pushback.
- Remember the truth.
- Find support.
- Demand action.
Why do narcissists hurt your feelings?
“Narcissists are primed to be abusive because they’re so hypersensitive, and they don’t have empathy, and they don’t have object constancy,” Greenberg said. “So they are primed to take offence and be abusive and not really understand… It’s a lot of work for the non-narcissistic mate.”
How do narcissists really feel about themselves?
Agentic grandiose narcissists tend to be charming, outgoing, overconfident, and vain, and think they are better than other people. Despite feeling badly about themselves, vulnerable narcissists—like grandiose narcissists—are self-centered, feel entitled to special treatment, and lack empathy for others.
How do narcissists share feelings?
If you discuss your feelings with them, it will be unlikely to help your rage, your helplessness, or your disgust. Worse, your sharing might backfire….Here are five tips.
- Remember the strength of perspective.
- Look at your signature strengths.
- Avoid the toxicity.
- Use the narcissist to your own benefit.
What happens when a narcissist is exposed?
When a narcissist’s position has been exposed as false, arbitrary, or untenable, he will suddenly become evasive, articulate half-truths, lie, flat-out contradict themselves and freely rewrite history (making things up as they go along). This is why at such times they don’t seem like adults so much as 6-year-olds.