Why Loving Your Narcissist HURTS so much!
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2021-12-03

Loving the narcissist is a very agonizing experience. Why?
Lack of empathy
Indifference after lovebombing: death of a dream and the shared fantasy
Withdrawal and avoidance
Scouting for alternatives and discard
Sexlessness
Paranoia 
Possessiveness
Narcissistic rage
Depression
“Love” conditioned on performance
Intermittent reinforcement
Devaluation
Memory lapses and confabulations
Impaired reality testing (grandiosity as cognitive distortion)
Miscommunication
Intransigence

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