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If You Are Dating a Covert Narcissist, I am Sorry.
Very few can relate to your misery, but I can.
You will want to believe every word, I mean, lie, out of their mouth. You will think you can save them. You will run friends and family off as you explain the insanity no one will understand but that of a mind dating one.
They will do the most horrific shit only to disguise them as mistakes and broken promises, never to do it again. If only you would believe them when they say they love and care about you!
Don’t you remember? You are the only person they felt this way about. You are their true soulmate. They have been waiting for you their whole life! They have never met anyone like you. They feel at “home!”
The other men they run off, they mean nothing, and they know you are the one now. The slight missteps in their stories are nothing more than your paranoia. Why do you have to be so paranoid?
They reassure you that your thoughts aren’t right. What you read on their social media and their text isn’t what you think. Don’t you know you are controlling, and you always blow everything out of proportion?
You need to get a fucking life! You are a needy, controlling, abusive asshole. They have every right to hang out with “friends” and not include you when they generally would. They are…