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I am so confused I know my narc husband does not love me because I can relate with nearly all the stories here apart from the fact that there was never another woman but what I cant understand is that "they love themselves and the see us an extension of themselves so how come they don't love us??"""
still confused.
April 29, 2012 - 2:47pm — archanaI have read all your comments thank you all for your comments and Goldie you say things amazingly.
Yes he is a narc
He wooed me as the perfect gentleman and soon all the abuse started
he went for me telling me that I was the most beautiful women he had meet and I was the best thing that had ever happened to him and I was his life blah blah blah to I am the ugliest bitch he has ever meet and I am a rejected piece of shit who nobody else would marry so I trapped him.!!!!!!! I still cant believe his words
anyway he used to watch PORN and then when he was caught he stopped and there has been no OW as he I have never found anything strange women wise but yes he would always have a friend who he found was in some way dependant on him(he felt)they would think its friendship he uses it as importance for him.
I want to leave he is now abusing in front of the kids so I need to speak to a lawyer but there is still that tiny flicker of hope and being an arranged marriage I have the added pressure of trying to convince them that after 12 years I need to leave otherwise I will go mad!!!
Thank you all for all your help and kind words it just helps knowing I am not the only one who is going through this there are others and all are willing to help.
They do not love themselves
April 29, 2012 - 12:44pm — goldieThey don't feel love. They are obsessed with themselves. Not the same thing as love. They vacillate between self adoration and self loathing. They feel rage and fear. They are either better than everyone else or feeling like they have it worse than everyone else because they are always losing and wanting something more. Supply, respect, ect...Someone always has more or better than they do and they want it. They live in a state of jealousy, fear, rage, envy, greed, self pity, grandiosity , sarcasm, disgust, fake phony false persona's, con, and manipulation of others. They USE people, they don't love them or themselves. They see what you have that they want and they take it. All the rest of it is for show, pretend. They are easily bored with what they have and are ALWAYS looking over their shoulder to see if the grass is greener somewhere else.
A relationship with a N or P is the furthest thing from love which you are ever going to find.
So many come on here and look for clue's and answers which may show or prove that they do somehow love, if even themselves.
Sorry hon, they don't. They don't love you or anyone else. They are not designed that way. They are wired to use, take, devalue, and discard. They are selfish, self serving, and not the slightest bit interested in how their bad behaviors affect anyone else.
God bless,
Goldie
I'm without words; how you
April 29, 2012 - 12:47pm — Deidre99I'm without words; how you put this is just tremendous. To someone just trying to grasp narcissism, or to someone who's been NC for a long while. Thank you for posting this, goldie!
They don't love themselves.
April 29, 2012 - 10:42am — ruby01Their world consists entirely of shame and fear.
They envy those that can love, but they can not.
They constantly fear abandonment and because they do they ultimately cause it to happen, over and over again.
They fear abandonment...but they cause it!
April 29, 2012 - 12:18pm — Trainwreck56They are so full of behaviors that don't make any sense!
He sabotaged our relationship, probably knew from the start
it would not work...just kept me around for supply!
PIG!
TW
Ns always have other
April 29, 2012 - 10:18am — midnight7Ns always have other supply/OW we are unaware of - even if it's just an email/work 'flirtation'/their porn habits/dating sites. Ns are unable to remain faithful - ever. The xN I had the relationship always told me he never saw his exGf, hated her, she was awful/unstable - I found out only after I ended the 9 year relationship that he'd continued to invite her round often for 5 of those years to torture her with me/his family and had been unfaithful with her on more than one occasion, telling her we were finished though the HPV I contracted alone would have confirmed his infidelity - he even blamed this on me. Ns do not love themselves - quite the opposite - Ns vacillate between only 2 emotions anger/fear both not really felt as we would - they constantly try to fill their empty shells by living vicariously through others - they are machines out to seek/destroy supply to get the attention they require - nothing more.
It's very rare that they
April 29, 2012 - 10:17am — HunterIt's very rare that they don't have OW..
However he cold seek supply from other sources..
Social Clubs, pets, dear old mom..
He may have some Narc qualities .. Has he been diagnosed ?.
Hunter
love
April 29, 2012 - 10:13am — lilygirlThey can't love. It's something missing in them, like their brains are not wired correctly.
It's not you.
Lily