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Why You Need To Stop Educating The Narcissist Before It’s Too Late

Informing the Narcissist they might be Narcissist will become your personal hell.

Chris Freyler
5 min readApr 21, 2022
Photo by Evgeniya Litovchenko on Unsplash

The last two girls I dated were Narcissistic, or at minimum, had extreme traits. The ex before the previous had a therapist tell her she exhibited signs of Narcissism, but at the time, I had no idea what this shit was. I even told her the therapist must be nuts! Because she was perfect! If I had known, maybe I wouldn’t be where I am today. Looking back, all the signs were there, but my Co-Dependency issues blinded me to the red flags, and I dived in headfirst.

After that relationship, here comes the second Narcissist. My ex was more Covert than my previous ex; again, all the signs were there, but I chose to ignore them. It’s been four years of hell. Lies, manipulation, cheating, gaslighting, physical abuse, deflection, projections, the whole nine yards! It’s been fucking brutal.

I severely screwed up by mentioning the word Narcissism to her or any of the Narcissistic terms, as she tried to use them against me. They are very good at projecting and shift blaming when called on their actions. They will not and can not accept the abusive behavior. They will either project it on to you, minimize it, justify it, or flat out deny it. You will forget what…

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Chris Freyler
Chris Freyler

Written by Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.

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