Early Warning Signs You’re With a Narcissist.
In real life, the most dangerous snakes do not advertise their malevolence.
At the beginning of the relationship with a narcissist, your love-struck eyes can’t see the dangerous con artist lurking right in front of you. You can only see the amazing, thoughtful, kind, attentive, and loving person they are presenting to you. You have no idea that they are merely mirroring back to you everything you wanted.
Abusive individuals, especially narcissists, do not wear T-shirts that say “I am a Narcissist!” It sure would make their future victims' lives so much easier if they did, but narcissists are experts at denying reality.
They know how to hone in on your weaknesses and they use your hopes and your dreams to coerce you into a relationship. Before you know it, after a very brief timeframe, you are swept up into a whirlwind of chaos and confusion.
If you have just made things official with your new partner, but they already want to spend all of their time with you and want to know everything about you, please keep reading.
If it feels like too much, it probably is.
Let's talk about some early signs that you’re dealing with a narcissist and how to prevent any more of these people from slithering into your life.
Chronic Criticism.
In the relationship, the narcissist will position themself to create dependency almost immediately. They will slowly erode your sense of self-worth to make you reliant on them –emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially.
The narcissist needs to be the center of your universe. They commence into gaslighting rather quickly and tell you that your life had been unfulfilling until they had shown up to rescue you. They will subtly put down your thoughts and feelings and attempt to erase anything you enjoyed before them as if it didn’t exist or was unimportant.
My abuser attacked every facet of my life as soon as I let him move into my home. He quickly began to chip away at my self-image by chronically criticizing EVERYTHING I did from raising my children to cleaning the cat litter box.
