The Aging Narcissist: How Their Behavior Gets Worse with Time

The aging narcissist becomes more and more narcissistic as they age. Becoming elderly is a normal part of the developmental stage of life for most people, but not for the narcissistic. They may have always been somewhat narcissistic, but it becomes worse as they age. Especially when the midlife crisis catches up to them. This is where you will see them trying to hold on to what is left of their youthful years. Dressing younger, getting plastic surgery in an effort to look young, going to the gym to alter their body, or buying a sport or luxury vehicle to impress or attract younger victims. Some will even divorce their lifetime spouse only to get involved with or to remarry a younger victim, because this feeds into their need for narcissistic supply. Even as they age, they still want and need to have their ego constantly stroked.

When their looks, money, and malicious mouth of manipulation no longer works, as it once did, aging then takes rips into their low self-esteem. This is when depression and desperation set in, however this does not mean that they will change, self-reflect, humble themselves, apologize, and be a better person. A narcissist doesn’t stop their narcissistic behavior because of aging. The meanness, selfishness, and entitlement only intensify and drives everyone around them away from them leaving them in a lonely space…