Narcissistic People Wear Masks! This may come to no surprise to many of us who have experienced the chaos that is the narcissist. They enjoy wearing different masks because they know deep down, that if any of us saw them for who they really were and are, we would not want them in our lives.
To a narcissist, there is no greater high they can ever experience than but to destroy that which is beautiful in an empath. Being able to strip away our courage, our beauty, our self-esteem, and OUR DREAMS is blissful to them.
You MUST understand that these people have no empathy and the pain that you feel, is a joy for them. It is a high for them to know that you are in pain BECAUSE of them.
Loving a narcissist can be a hell that we try to turn into heaven. Narcissists are monsters who have no understanding of what love is. They have no sense of love.
The smear campaign can be a difficult thing to deal with. For many people, their image means a lot to them. Narcissists know this because they are all about their fragile little image.
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own – they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal – for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.
I have heard it said that your thirties are the beginning of you accepting who you are for who you are. I recall reaching my thirties and having dreams of a certain parent who had passed.
Those of us who have just left a narcissist or have been discarded by a narcissist we know how nasty the smear campaigns can be.
The Silent Treatment can cause so much pain to the person who is being ignored and given the silent treatment. The silent treatment can hurt, and narcissist knows this.