Summary
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Narcissists require total control over your happiness and self-worth. They view any independent joy or hobbies you have as an insult to their importance, leading them to sabotage your interests and happiness to maintain their role as the primary focus of your life.
Despite acting cold or indifferent after a breakup, narcissists are secretly obsessed with your life. They use social media as a mask to feign moving on, while actually monitoring you compulsively to ensure you are not thriving without them.
Narcissists do not view intimacy as a connection but as a tool for ego gratification. Because they possess no moral filter or sense of the sacred, they will use anything or anyone as a resource, regardless of the ethical implications.
Narcissists often project their own infidelity onto their partners. When they experience an argument, they hallucinate that you are betraying them and use that delusion as justification to cheat on you first to prevent being 'hurt' by an imaginary offense.