4. The successful person.
Have you ever noticed how a narcissist acts when someone else gets a promotion, wins an award, or buys a nice car? Really anything that shows someone’s accomplishing things and feeling good about it. So in these moments around narcissists, usually you can expect that same old contempt and venom coming through, even if they don’t outright show it. It’s written all over their face.
If they do show it, you might encounter eye rolls, rude comments, or just an overall raincloud vibe. So the translation for all these behaviors and for the outright contempt is the narcissist is silently saying, ‘What about me? I’m the one who matters here. Anyone else’s success is straight-up threatening to a narcissist.’ Which is exactly why after you move forward from them, going on to bigger and better things is the sweetest revenge. Your wins remind the narcissist that they aren’t as special as they thought. Because even if a narcissist does accomplish things, they like to think that they’re the only ones who deserve praise. So this is another case where you will find the greatest success after you leave the narcissist in the rearview mirror. And it’s also the best revenge.
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