Number 3: “You’re too sensitive.”
Now, this of course follows suit with the previous phrases you’ll hear from a narcissist, and you may even be noticing a pattern here. The underlying theme is this, the fault, the blame, and the responsibility, and the issue will always and forever be you. You’re the issue. You’re so sensitive, you’re so emotional, you’re such a drama queen or a king and, of course, you’re overreacting again. Narcissistic people will not under any circumstances own up to or accept responsibility for their toxic and hurtful attitudes and behavior, unless, of course, you’ve had enough and they’re in real jeopardy of losing what they know full well is a good thing.
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In that case, they may temporarily pay lip service if it serves to manipulate you and suck you back into the dysfunctional dynamic. Only then might they be willing to say just enough to manipulate their way back into your good graces? They’ll say the bare minimum in terms of owning up to any pain or discomfort they may have caused you or others. Barring they’re being in jeopardy of losing you for real, and they don’t have another source of supply already lined up, and assuming they’re feeling pretty confident and comfortable in the relationship, then you can count on the fact that they will always say whatever it takes no matter how untrue, cruel, or bizarre to get you to believe that you’re at fault because you are too something, you’re too insecure, too needy, you’re too much of this or too little of that, you are the issue because you have issues and therefore it follows that you’re to blame for everything.
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In addition, they’ll feel entitled to target you and put you down publicly, and possibly even go so far as to try to humiliate you in front of others and then have the audacity to gaslight you by telling you that you can’t take a joke. Again, you’re just too sensitive, that’s the real problem. Then, they’ll do everything possible to rationalize, justify, minimize, and make excuses for their harmful behavior. They’ll cut you, rub salt in the wound, and then ridicule you for having a feeling about it. Then, they’ll send you down the crazy-making rabbit hole of, “What are you even talking about? What’s wrong with you?” If you let them, don’t let them.
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