Sadly, I know the pain of being in a relationship with a narcissist. I know the tears. I know the anxiety. I know the struggle.
I know how a heart breaks. When the mask of the one you imagined sharing your life with falls, then everything gets destroyed. How to Stop A Narcissist From Hurting You First, you need to understand how and why they hurt you.
A Narcissist is someone who most likely hurts you by projecting their unhealed wounds and traumas onto you. They may have felt abandoned, misunderstood, rejected, and not good enough in childhood that left a mark on them, and now they want to spew their wounds all over you and make you bleed as they have bled.
The narcissist wants you to be responsible for them. They don’t want to be partnered up with you. They are not team players.