5 Signs a Narcissist is Deeply Suffering Inside
Sign number three: Lack of Genuine Connections
They have no genuine connection with anyone. This is one of the most tragic forms of suffering they go through, and they don’t even realize it. They don’t even name it. They do not know what a real relationship feels like—not with their spouse, not with their children, not with friends, not even with themselves. Everything they say and do is filtered through manipulation, superiority, and the lies they told so often that they now believe them. Their entire personality is based on a fake construct of reality that has no foundation. One touch in a fragile spot, and they collapse. They treat love like a transaction and connection like a tool. So even when they come home after a long day, there is no one they can truly be vulnerable around, no one they can break down in front of, and no one they can trust to hold their pain. They’re surrounded by people—lots of them—yet deeply alone. Intimacy is foreign to them. Affection is totally mechanical. Sex is a performance. Warmth is awkward. Now you tell me, would you call that living? Would you call that happiness? I won’t, because it’s not. They do not get to feel what it is like to lie in bed with someone in their embrace and feel safe, or to share silence without anxiety or a desperate need for attention, or to laugh without pretending. Because when you fake your entire identity, every interaction becomes hollow. That is the prison they live in—surrounded by people who never really know them because they never allowed themselves to be truly known.
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