The narcissist is free to roam ‘invisibly.’<\/em><\/p>\nOne of the most significant reasons the world at large never truly identifies or understands the narcissist is the narcissist does not care about them. Thus, the friends of the narcissist and even some family members may never agitate a narcissist to the level where they will show their true colors.<\/p>\n
In other words, the inability to bond with another on a deep level makes most individuals unimportant to the narcissist.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is why they never get a chance to view what the narcissist is capable of.\u00a0The narcissist views the majority of people as social acquaintances and fellow partyers.<\/p>\n
A narcissist does not need people. They need the activity. They need the party. They need to have fun or feel self-important.<\/strong><\/p>\nThey do not feel a need to belong to anything because their own world is the most important.<\/em><\/p>\nThis includes belonging to a family. A narcissist may not even care enough to go visit a sick family member in the hospital. Yet at a gathering, their outward charm and persona may make them seem every bit the pinnacle of a family person.<\/p>\n
However, and this is a VERY BIG, HOWEVER, there is one very important person in the narcissist’s world – their enabler.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe person who has held them up and fortified their fantasy.<\/em><\/p>\nThis person is extremely important to the narcissist because THEY make the NARCISSIST’S WORLD GO ROUND.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIt is a compromised and one-sided union and one which demands an\u00a0explanation.<\/p>\n
This unhealthy relationship can be described in just three words for both the narcissist and their enabler.<\/p>\n
The narcissist’s limited vocabulary is comprised of three action words.<\/strong><\/p>\nControl, Punish, and Win<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s important to reiterate these verbs. Control, punish and win. They sound so simple. Yet these words can prove to be enough to destroy the narcissist’s enabler should the enabler choose to try and free them self from the fragile bully.<\/p>\n
The terrible thing about being an enabler is one makes themselves powerless to the bully.<\/strong><\/p>\nEven worse? The irony because the enabler is far stronger than the narcissist. Yet, they have allowed their caring tendencies to put them in a compromising situation.<\/em><\/p>\nThe enabler’s three vocabulary words are anything but action words. They are the enabler’s reaction to the narcissist’s vocabulary.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe enabler does not live in a world of verbs. They live in a world of feelings. Of responses to the abuse.<\/em><\/p>\nLonely, Crazy, and Powerless<\/strong><\/p>\nThe enabler has ironically, allowed a fragile ego-ed bully to dominate their lives. The narcissist inflicts the action words of control, punish and win and the enabler reacts feeling lonely, crazy and powerless.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the past few years, there has been considerable, talk of bullying.<\/p>\n
The conversation needs to widen. Child bullies turn into adult bullies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are no measures in place to combat adult bullying. Consider how difficult it is to squash out bullying among children even with parental, school and societal measures to attempt to combat it.<\/p>\n
As adults, narcissists are shamelessly hurting not just their peers, but the children who are caught in the crosshairs of the narcissistic spousal relationship.<\/p>\n
Only sadly, very few people are elevating the conversation.<\/p>\n
Instead, narcissism remains the ‘Invisible Illness.’<\/strong><\/p>\n(Photos courtesy of Pexels)<\/p>\n
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