Why Does a Covert Narcissist Punish You for Trying to Improve Your Relationship?
Your 6 innocent, relationship-building behaviors that provoke them
Covert narcissists are masters of punishment, often without you even being aware.
Unlike malignant narcissists who want you to be painfully aware they are punishing you intentionally, delighting in your pain, covert narcissists are entirely satisfied by punishing you without you knowing.
They use subtle, insidious methods and plausible deniability to preserve their persona of being caring, kind, and charming.
Why would a covert narcissist want to punish you?
It sounds childish, but to the covert narcissist, it’s survival. You have caused narcissistic injury and for that you must pay.
Narcissistic injury is the hurt the narcissist feels from your behavior. The narcissist feels narcissistic injury from any situation or interaction that makes them feel unworthy, rejected, incompetent, humiliated, abandoned, or criticized.
Here are 6 examples of your innocent, even relationship-building behaviors, that cause narcissistic injury.
