5 Lines Straight Out of the Narcissist Playbook
If you’ve been with a narcissist you’ll know what I mean
The narcissist playbook? Seriously?
Yup. Although every person who meets the criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder has individual attributes, they operate in surprisingly similar ways. Systematic, almost.
The signs and symptoms (aka red flags and how they show up) are well documented. The manipulation tactics can be categorised — love-bombing, projection, triangulation, gaslighting, blame-shifting and so on.
If you’ve been in (or are still in) a relationship with a narcissist, you’ll have many examples of each of these. Probably too many for comfort.
You’ll also be aware of the lines they love to roll out, usually to (a) get themselves off the hook and (b) shift the emphasis to the (mostly) non-existent flaws in you and (c) make you question the reality of your thoughts, feelings and, well, everything.
Here are five of the best of them.
Let me finish (said with a long sigh).
There are two purposes to this. The first is to cut off your ability to speak, to convey your point of view. What you don’t say, can’t be heard, right?
