As a result, whether you’re trying to recover from a narcissist or you’re forced to connect when you have children in common, it’s important to consider the less-than-ideal environment you’re in to properly walk the path forward.
Here’s what not to do while working with a narcissist for your own state of mind, mental well-being, security, and sanity:
Do not participate in their playing.
I thought I should send the guy who had broken my heart a taste of his own medication at the end of my marriage to a professionally confirmed narcissist. To put it another way, I wanted to be like him, shutting down my emotions like a lock, being cold and cruel, and telling him that I didn’t care. Since I understood how frustrating it was to be on the other end, I tried offering him the silent treatment. Yet it was all for naught.
Since I’m not a narcissist, I fell miserably at attempting to play his role. I experience remorse, sympathy, and sorrow. I realize what it takes to love and care about others. And there are certain thresholds I will never reach, such as forcing others to collapse to their knees in agony on purpose.
You will fail and lose big if you play a narcissist’s game for the basic explanation that narcissists are in it to gain it. There are no laws that they cannot violate or boundaries that they can not touch. As a result, it’s better not to even attempt. If you reach the lion’s lair, you would not be able to get out alive. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to figure things out.
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