In summary, today’s article taught us how to recognize when a narcissist feels threatened by your strength and personal power and what they will do to undermine you. If you have ever felt like someone was threatened by your confidence and courage, I hope this article has helped you a lot. Narcissists are attracted to strong, successful people because they want to be associated with them and bask in their energy. However, once they perceive you as a threat to their authority, they will launch an all-out attack on your character, reputation, and credibility. They will diminish your accomplishments, belittle your efforts, and ridicule your aspirations.
Narcissists need to dominate social situations and manufacture an impression of invincibility, and your strength and personal power may become a major source of conflict. When they can’t manipulate, dominate, or control you, they will resort to indirect methods of attacking you, discrediting, degrading, and demeaning you. They tell lies, spread rumors, and play-act while secretly undermining you. This is a common tactic employed by narcissistic siblings, other narcissistic family members, acquaintances, co-workers, exes, and partners to hide their abusive connections with those people.
Ultimately, narcissists need to feel like they’re in a position of power over others. However, anyone on the destructive narcissism spectrum would find your strength and personal power to be highly troublesome, no matter how beautiful and enticing they may have seemed at the beginning of the relationship dynamic. Simply put, you won’t be easy to manage, dominate, deceive, or control since you’ll be too difficult or too hard to handle.
And in truth, those who are deemed overly powerful by narcissists are actually independent thinkers who are not readily swayed by the views of others. They are self-actualized to the point where they can live
their own lives free from the manipulation and abuse that narcissists bring. If you manage to unsettle a narcissist with your own sense of strength and personal power, they will try to discredit, slander, and bring you down. It’s important to protect yourself, cut off contact if possible, and focus on your own healing and boundary-setting to reclaim your power and rebuild your self-confidence.
Remember, you deserve to be surrounded by people who appreciate and celebrate your strength and personal power, rather than being threatened by it.
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