Your empathy was a power they could not harness. While narcissists traditionally exploit empathy, viewing it as a vulnerability or weakness, yours functioned differently. Your empathy was deeply intelligent, insightful, and profoundly self-aware. Rather than becoming their emotional puppet, your empathy became an intuitive tool, enabling you to understand them more deeply than they were comfortable admitting. That’s the secret—you effortlessly saw through their facade, accurately predicting their next moves and understanding their underlying motives.
Your empathy was not susceptible to exploitation; instead, it served as a profound mirror, constantly reflecting their own truth back at them. Unable to harness or manipulate your empathetic insights, they found themselves repeatedly seeking that deep, genuine understanding in others, only to continually face disappointment and frustration. Basically, you were the torchbearer in their life. You were the light to their darkness, but they felt repelled by you. They felt consumed by you. This is why, instead of learning and accepting that you were their biggest support, they tried to dim you.
The biggest driver, the motivation, was fear. The fear that you were better than them. The fear that you may turn out to be more useful than they are. The fear that you may know how to navigate life better.
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