From Love Bombing to Blowing Up Your Life: A Romance with a Narcissist is Happily Never After. One of the most difficult and painful aspects of being in a narcissistic relationship is the shame a person feels for getting involved with a narcissist in the first place. As tempting as it is to believe that if you learn enough, are educated enough, wary enough, and experienced enough, you cannot be lured into a narcissistic relationship, you would be wrong. Very, very, very wrong. Yet...

In my previous blog - “When Someone Is More Than Difficult: Dealing with a Narcissist” - I differentiate between some of the buzzwords currently in use and explain why “narcissistic” isn’t an appropriate descriptor for every behavior by a jerk that displeases or upsets someone. “Toxic” is another buzzword people use interchangeably with “narcissistic” as a way to quickly label a person who has pissed them off. I admit that I am concerned about people casually using those terms because it...

When someone is more than difficult: Dealing with a Narcissist. Parent, Partner, Sibling, Colleague, Lover, Friend… Any relationship can...