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Why Narcissists Pretend to Be Perfect Lovers
They idealize perfect love, because they’re experts at impersonation. Their idea of love is tied to what you do for them, and how you make them feel. Narcissists are the ultimate imposters, and that is why they idealize love to the perfection. Love is a beautiful, and a sacred thing. They know what their victims want, and they become whatever fantasy that you have always desired. Which is why the idealization seems too good to be true, because it’s not! These imposters are con-artists, scammers, emotional abusers, and predators who have manipulated more people in one week than the average person would manipulate someone in a 3–6-month span.
They have mastered the art of idealization of manipulating their victims into believing that they found the perfection of true love. The worst part is, when they receive real love, they do not know how to accept it, appreciate it, nor how to reciprocate it. They do not see themselves worthy of love therefore they see others worth using and abusing as a way to regulate their emotions. They lack empathy, which is the ability to understand and share true feelings with another person, which renders them incapable of sincerely caring or loving someone. They use the word love and mimic the behavior for fun, and manipulation. They cannot emotionally feel what true authentic love really feels like, they can only attempt to relate to it…