5. Have a slave.
Next, one of the main reasons that narcissists get married is to have a slave. Someone they can demand does everything that the narcissist wants. Someone who is used for sexual gratification whenever and however the narcissist wants. And someone available to the narcissist at any moment for them to rage at and degrade, humiliate, ridicule, and abuse when they are out in the real world, and someone gives them a narcissistic injury.
Recommended: Will I Ever Be Free of You?: How to Navigate a High-Conflict Divorce from a Narcissist and Heal Your Family- by Dr. Karyl McBride Ph.D.
Remember, narcissists have an extremely fragile ego that is incredibly vulnerable to any offense, slight, or disrespect of another person. This could be a real insult or a completely imaginary one. However, narcissists can’t rage out in public, but when they get a narcissistic injury, that will be followed by narcissistic rage. That’s how they emotionally regulate themselves, that’s how they feel better and soothe their injured ego is by abusing and projecting all of those deep feelings of inferiority onto someone else.
And if you’re the spouse of a narcissist, that usually means you. When they get home and are secluded from all the eyes and the judgments of the outside world, narcissists are very careful about when they abuse and who they abuse, and the abuse is usually reserved for his/her immediate family, namely the spouse.
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