What Happens When a Covert Narcissist Realizes They’re Losing You?
You better hold onto your hat!
4 min readJan 8, 2022
When a covert narcissist realizes they’re losing you, their gloves come off.
The covert narcissist will pull out all the stops. The abuse that made you want to leave? That’s small potatoes.
The covert narcissist is in this relationship for the long haul and doesn’t want to lose your narcissistic supply. They’ve groomed you to be their primary source for so long.
They don’t know this is what is driving them. That and the desperate need to preserve their false persona, that is.
The covert narcissist sees you as betraying them.
They had such great hopes for you. They thought you saw them as their idealized self, just like everyone else does. They thought you truly “understood” them.
Now, you’ve seen the truth and you’re pulling away.
They lash out
- How dare you!
- What the heck is the matter with you?
- You are sick in the head?
- You must be cheating!
- You never loved me anyway!
