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Narcissist
How Do You Get a Narcissist to Care?
It’s easier than you think
A narcissist will never care. Not in the true sense because their lack of empathy makes that impossible.
Yet we forget narcissism is a form of addiction. And instead of alcohol or drugs, the narcissist is self-addicted.
Hence, they do care about ONE thing.
And if we remember this we can lessen the emotional abuse. Because sadly, it’s necessary for the years we can’t escape them or because we share children with them or because they are family.
So this bears repeating — the narcissist is addicted to themselves. And everything that entails — their world, and their money, and their possessions, and their job.
We can lessen our anguish by speaking their language — ‘I and me.’
But instead, we use ‘you’ and implore them to care.
How could ‘you’ do this? Why won’t ‘you’ stop. Why don’t ‘you’ care?
