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Boundaries Are Not the Problem: The Aggressive Mindset of Narcissists
That is untrue.
Your limits are disrespectfully crossed by narcissists.
They value their own boundaries and will use emotional violence to protect them at any time.
Boundaries are respected by narcissists. their own. They also teach you to respect theirs.
Boundaries aren’t actually the problem here.
Aggression, revolt, violence, filth, and disrespect are all part of it.
Those that come to steal your belongings by force or deceit while preventing you from accessing any of their own valuables are known as narcissists.
Boundaries are not the problem; violence is.
It’s combat.
Through the fight-or-flight mentality and the amygdala, narcissists approach relationships and interactions with an underlying philosophy of warfare.
There can be no peace, respect, harmony, happiness, satisfaction, or love.
Protect what is theirs, and take what is yours. That’s what the narcissist believes.
Therefore, when it comes to boundaries, it just gets changed to aggressively defend theirs while violating yours. Equal opportunity never exists.
It’s the same as when one nation invades another. Due to a power imbalance and a wolfish mindset, one nation may freely cross the boundaries of the other, while the other cannot.
Consider pre-World War II Japan and China…