Number 2: They crave luxury and status and try to achieve them through money.
Some narcissists, like grandiose ones, exhibit one of the most common toxic money habits: craving luxury and status just for vanity and admiration. They’re always drawn to products, services, and experiences that are high-end, and luxurious, without caring if they need them or not. They want the most expensive doctor, the best hair stylist, and the most famous beautician to differentiate themselves from the commoners, from the people they consider to be way below them. They spend lavishly on whatever they think will make them look like a big shot or a VIP.
Recommended Book: Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself- By Shahida Arabi.
Money enables them to associate with high-status people, celebrities, and other public figures because it makes them feel like they’re a part of an elite group. They want people to know that they have money to burn and can offer the most luxurious and expensive things. In reality, spending like this is nothing but a Band-Aid put on an injury, on a wound that needs stitches. It is a way to cover their insecurities under the blanket of false safety that money temporarily provides.
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