If you’ve spent much time with a narcissist, you know that they have a strong need to maintain control over you. It’s as if they have already figured out how you’re supposed to think, feel, behave, and respond. They don’t want to receive much input from you because they believe they already know everything they need to know. With their sense of superiority and dominance, they honestly feel like they are the better person in the equation, which robs you of your ability to be yourself.
Have you ever experienced anything like that? The longer you stay in such a situation, the more it can feel like a form of brainwashing. You are repeatedly told that you are not adequate or that you didn’t do something right, and you need to filter everything through them.
Today, I want to talk about one primary quality in relationships that the narcissist absolutely cannot come to terms with, but I want you to be able to understand this quality.
Now, let’s return to the one thing that the narcissist absolutely cannot deal with: the truth that you have free will. The reality is that you are free. This is something the narcissist doesn’t want you to remember or acknowledge. They want to contain you, to keep you inside a cage, if you will. They want to keep you boxed in, and if you come along and say, “Well, I think differently,” or “I have preferences that might not match yours,” the narcissist responds with, “You can’t do that; you’re not supposed to have those thoughts.” They completely ignore the fact that you have the right to decide who you want to be.
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