Dan versus Chuck is the classic good guy versus bad boy. The bad boy Chuck you are desperately trying to change or the good guy Dan who is going to drive you home. Chuck is your escape and Dan is the guy that saves you.
Empaths are not all “light and love.” Far from it. Many struggle with depression, anxiety, various addictions and self-doubt due to their high sensitivity and receptiveness to taking on the emotions of others.
Love-bombing – the excessive praise and flattery a predatory partner showers on their prey – might as well be crack cocaine. It is a common manipulation tactic used by cults to control their members – and in a relationship with a narcissist, you become a one-man cult.
You fear someone getting too close. You fear someone knowing you that deeply. You fear someone seeing you as vulnerable.
All narcissists are emotionally unavailable to some extent, but not all emotionally unavailable people are narcissists. Here are the five key areas of difference between someone who is just emotionally unavailable and someone who is both emotionally unavailable and a malignant narcissist.
Empaths and narcissists are toxically attracted because they mirror each other’s shadow sides. They unconsciously project their deepest fears onto the other.
Victims are conditioned to seek their abusers for comfort – a form of medicine that is simultaneously the source of poison.
The narcissistic female’s rage is not unlike the narcissistic man’s in intensity, but because of social stigma surrounding female anger, the narcissistic female may communicate her rage in more subtle ways.
It’s tempting to create a narrative about a new partner and how they’ve come to save us, but we all know that sometimes the people dressed as our saviors turn out to be the very people we need to be saved from.
“Family courts have pretty much decided that having a vagina automatically makes you a better, more capable parent.”
You can use six secrets about narcissists to protect yourself from their manipulation.
Jealousy turns people into assholes, and our current social climate feeds off the inherent need to not only be part of the tribe and to belong, but also to dominate and control it.
I think the #1 cause of divorce is relationship-damaging behavior by men who honestly don’t recognize it. Good men with good intentions who damage their wives’ emotional and mental health with behaviors they don’t understand to be as damaging as they are.
If he keeps making empty promises, if he keeps showing up late to dates, if he keeps disappointing you over and over again, then he clearly has no respect for you.
Gemini: This individual will have problems communicating in a conventional way, possibly due to speech impediments, social anxiety, or other forms of an inability to communicate properly.
