The Narcissist Trap
The Narcissist Trap Inner Peace Sometimes Requires an Unapologetic Goodbye There comes a point when defending yourself becomes its own prison. Someone speaks badly about you. You explain yourself. They twist the explanation. You provide context. They find another accusation. You defend your intentions. They recruit someone else into the conversation. Before long, you're spending enormous amounts of energy arguing with a version of yourself that exists only inside someone else's story. That is the narcissist trap . And whether the person actually has narcissistic personality disorder is beside the point. You don't need to diagnose someone to recognize an unhealthy pattern. The Trap Is Getting You to Play If a friend, family member, former partner, coworker, or anyone else seems to have endless energy for criticizing you, gossiping about you, retelling your mistakes, questioning your motives, or convincing other people that you're the problem, yo...