Can a Covert Narcissist Change for Their Fantastic New Source of Supply?
Will they really change for someone of high value?
Your relationship with a covert narcissist has ended and they’re with someone new. Their new source of supply seems so high value.
The covert narcissist seems like an entirely new person — totally unrecognizable.
All of those things you wanted them to do with you that they refused — they’re doing them with their new source of supply.
They seem so happy together.
You can’t help but wonder — maybe they can change. Dejectedly you think, “they just didn’t change for me.”
The covert narcissist’s big change
Can they change their disordered way of thinking and being in the world? No.
Can they change specific behaviors to be more effective in “selling” their idealized self as who they are? Absolutely.
A covert narcissist has not developed a sense of self. They don’t know who they are, but they fear they are someone horrible.
The brain changes that result have walled their true self off and replaced it with an idealized self — the person they want to be. For this reason, they lack self-introspection…
