Emotional Theft: How Narcissists Take More Than You Think

• your comb, your seat, your wallet, items from your house
• your spouse, your friends, your mannerisms
• your ideas and then taking credit for it (devastating in the workplace)
• your happiness, your time, your health, your life

No, that’s not really it. That’s not what narcissists truly steal from you. Those are just exterior manifestations of what they truly steal from you.

What does a narcissist take away from you?

Emotional profit.

What?

Yes, emotional profit.

What do you mean?

To explain that, I would need to digress into a longer discourse.

All things have economies. All things require inputs, and output things.

Businesses need money from paying customers to buy more widgets to place on their shelves. They fold when costs exceed revenue.

Animals need to eat more than the energy they expend. They die when that condition isn’t met.

Relationships require acknowledgement, validation, reciprocation, otherwise they flounder. It’s called anomie, indifference or contempt.