Number 4: “Don’t let it go to your head.”
In the case of any potential success in your life, the narcissist will have to throw shade on it. Sure, they may temporarily pretend that they’re happy for you, especially if others are watching. But don’t kid yourself, deep down they’re not at all happy for you. In reality, it’s far more likely that any good thing that you’ve got going on will trigger their pathological envy. So, no matter what they say, sad as this may be, you can be sure that they’re not exactly celebrating you. Any success you’ve worked hard for and earned nor any good fortune you’ve attracted into your life unless it serves them somehow.
Read More: 8 Ways Narcissists Spy On You.
Narcissistic people are rarely for you and will typically be against you and what you’re working so hard to accomplish. The thing with narcissists is this, if you win at anything in life, you’ll likely outshine them and they cannot abide even the possibility of you outshining them at all in any way, big or small. So, secretly they actually want you to fail. They want, and quite frankly, need you to be less than if only in their own mind because you being less than keeps them comfortable. At their core, they carry deep feelings of shame and inferiority, and they’ll project this deeply buried shame and very real sense of inferiority onto you in an attempt to prop themselves up with a false sense of superiority.
Recommended: Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself- By Shahida Arabi.
So, don’t be fooled by the phony facade. In spite of outward appearances, they feel inadequate and are green with envy. This is why they find ways to diminish, thwart, and even sabotage any progress you’re making. They’ll even go so far as to say something like, “You’d be nothing if it weren’t for me.” They actually want to take credit for your hard work, your gifts, your talent, your effort, and your accomplishments. Can you imagine being so emotionally and psychologically sick as to actually think, never mind come right out and say, that another human being would be nothing if it weren’t for you? Imagine going through life with this kind of delusional and utterly toxic mindset, and you’re the crazy one.
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