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You're in a good place now. You are listening to
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Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
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Welcome back live to look Ature life Perspectives and I'm
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your host, Ashley Burgess. On today's show, I'd like to
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discuss narcissism and how they trigger you to get supply.
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And many of you might not be aware of the
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situation and circumstances around this, but this works very effectively
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when somebody's trying to manipulate you, to get you out
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of control, to push your buttons, to do things repetitively
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in the essence of abating you. And these are the
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problems that we're having in the situations that many people
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are dealing with, and you don't know what to do,
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so you get stuck in the situation where the person
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is really trying to push all of your buttons in
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essence of trying to literally trigger you to do something
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that you wouldn't obviously do under normal circumstances. And this
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is used very effectively by many narcissists to control you,
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to be able to find fault with you, to be
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able to put you down. And if you're dealing with
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the situation, some of you might not even realize what's
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really happening. You may actually start feeling bad. The person
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may push you to believe that they're the victim. Oh,
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you do all this stuff to me. You don't care
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about me, you don't care about this, you don't care
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about that, And in the process, you begin to buy
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into this situation. You begin to buy into the fact
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that this person is a victim, and in the process
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of buying into that, you allow them.
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To act like a child.
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You take care of them and even take care of
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them to the level of taking care of them more
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than yourself, where you are at a disadvantage either financially
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taking care of them emotionally, taking care of them, doing everything,
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and not really receiving anything back from them. It's a
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very one sided relationship. Now, in the beginning, it wasn't
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exactly like that, and that's where many of you got stuck.
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There was a lot of love bombing in the beginning,
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a lot of like giving from this person where it
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felt very genuine, but it was not.
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And so you kind of walked into.
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This relationship thinking one thing and it being quite a
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different situation altogether.
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And it can be really hard to see.
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It can be really hard to recognize when you're dealing
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with this type of situation, it can be extremely hard
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to recognize and extremely hard to understand. And so in
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today's show, I want to talk about that. I want
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to talk about how narcissists gets supply. And remember it's
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about attention. They want attention, they want your attention, they
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want everyone's attention. If they don't get other people's attention,
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that's a problem. They will push you and push you
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and push you until they get your attention, even until you.
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Blow up or cry or break down.
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And when they see that, that actually gives them energy
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and supply, making them happy, building them up, also allowing
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them to realize that they actually control you.
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They control you.
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And this is a very interesting dynamic because when somebody
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controls you, that's when we have lost our own identity.
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That's when we put ourselves on the back burner, and
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that's where we begin to do things because this person
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pushes us to this pushing this person is triggering us
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to do these things. So what we need to if
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you're feeling this, if you're experiencing this in your life,
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we need to be able to be aware of what
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we're experiencing. You need to be honest with yourself about
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what you're experiencing. And we need to be honest about
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what is happening because this is truly a problematic situation.
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This is truly a situation that needs to be rectified.
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It's truly a situation that has to be taken care
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of for your own sanity and well being. Now, I
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want you to think about this because you know, when
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you're dealing with folks that have narcissistic tendencies, extreme narcissistic tendencies,
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because it takes a true narcissist to want to bait you,
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to want to emotionally abuse you, all in an effort
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to get supply, because that's how they build themselves up.
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They build themselves up by taking you down. And as
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long as they can take you down or make you
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feel bad, they have won.
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I know that I have many clients that we've.
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Spoken about this where they feel bad about, well, I
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did this, and yes I was wrong by doing this,
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but I've paid for it for the last fifteen years.
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You know, it's brought up every single day and brought
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up over and over and over again until nauseum, until
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I either get very angry or I break something or
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I storm out, or I just break down in tears.
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And so what's happening here is they are a little
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abusing you using what I call forever ammunition, which is
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a term that I have coined and phrase for a
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long time. I came up with forevery ammunition because that's
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what it is. They take something that you did wrong
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a long time ago, and they bring it up over
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and over and over again to get a rise out
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of you, to make you feel bad, to bring you down.
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And the thing is that's interesting with these folks is
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that they don't do that much. Most of them are
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really and I hate to use the word loser, but
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maybe that's a decent word. Most of them are very
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self centered. They get very little done for society. You know,
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it's not it wouldn't be a loss if they were gone.
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But they like to find fault in everybody else because
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if they find faults in you, then what they're not
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doing and the stuff that they're not doing is fine.
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And so they basically are making themselves okay with their lifestyle,
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with their choices, with the things that they're doing, and
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not so they build themselves up.
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For example, I had a.
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Client the other day, you know, was able to get
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a raise at work, and it was a very big
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deal for them, and they were very happy about it,
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and I was very supportive about it. But not once
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did they get a hey, that's awesome, or congratulations or
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anything like that from their spouse.
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If anything, their.
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Spouse was very angry and almost competitive, not almost completely
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competitive in the situation and putting them down. Well, it
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should have been more. And you know what, you really,
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you know, this is not a great job. A company
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that you're working with is just you know, it's not
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really non nationwide. And then this person that's their spouse
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doesn't work, doesn't have a job. And so it's very
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interesting because they will put others down in an effort
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to build themselves up. And they do this over and
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over again, and by using that for every ammunition as
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a constant basis, it's perfect because it's repetitive and it
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bits you to the point being able to push those buttons.
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And I find it very challenging to override some of
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this baiting.
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Because this baiting is used to abuse you.
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It is used to emotionally beat you down and abuse you.
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It's used and orchestrated to control you. It's very important
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to understand this. It's very important because if you understand
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what the whole situation and circumstance is, you won't give
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them what they want. Because if you can hold back
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from giving the narcissists what they want, you actually control
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the narcissists, okay, because they want you to get angry,
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They want you to get upset, and if you don't
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give them what they want, you control them. But the
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only way of controlling them is by not being triggered.
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If you were triggered, you're.
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Dead in the water. And so you have to take
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the AMMO. You have to take the AMMO out of
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the situation. You gotta take the AMMO out of the situation.
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What can you take out of the situation? You gotta
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take the AMMO out.
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You got to.
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You gotta take the thing out. So let's say, you know,
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they bring up oh, well, you know, you know there
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you are talking about being a family person and you
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weren't there when your dad died. Real family person? Yeah yeah, yeah,
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you really got morals and out there. I mean, like,
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you got to really think about how deep they're gonna get.
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They might bring up a past divorce, they might bring
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up a child that you have that maybe you'll have
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in a strange relationship with and you're trying really hard
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to be in that kid's life. But maybe there's some
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you know, maybe you had a past relationship where there's
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a lot of you know, narcissistic abuse as well and
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parental alienation from an ex spouse, and so they'll play
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upon the pain and suffering that you've had in your life.
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You know, maybe you've been divorced a couple of times.
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They'll bring that up. You know, whatever it is that
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they can bring you down on, they will bring you
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they will bring up in a repetitive format and an
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effort to make you feel bad. And that's something that
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I really want to stress here that's very important for
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us to recognize is that these are the things that
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I think are important to acknowledge, and you know, that's
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the things that we have to kind of deal with,
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and if we can understand that and get ready for that,
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we can overcome the triggering. Okay, so I need you
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to think, what will the narcissists use? Okay, what what
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have they used? You know, what have they used in
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the past, What have they used in the past, Maybe what.
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Did they use yesterday to trigger you?
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And I want you to think about these. You can
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even write this down on a list and a piece
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of paper. What are the things that they use to
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trigger me? Is it a past relationship, is it a child,
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is it your career, is it whatever? I need you
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to think about that and let's prepare for that. So
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you need to write that down and think about it.
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And then what's so triggering about it?
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Right? What's so triggering about it?
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Like? Why does it bring so much pain and suffering?
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Think about it, like, really analyze the issues. So if
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it's you know, a child, if it's a if it's
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a grown child that you don't have a very good
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connection with because of you know, maybe the relationship directly
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with you and them, or maybe the relationship with you
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and your ex spouse. I mean, like you know, there's
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pain from there and we have to kind of deal
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with that pain because the narcissist is going to use
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whatever they can to make you feel pain, to trigger
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you to be upset, to get angry, to create. They're
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not gonna The interesting thing is they're also going to
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project on you, right their own insecurity, So they're projecting
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this whole time.
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And many of them.
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It's interesting how they will find fault in your marriage
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but have been never married before in the past. Or
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they'll find fault with the way that you raised your kid,
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but they don't even have a kid of their own,
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or maybe they don't even have a kid in their life,
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their kids have walked away from them, but they find
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fault within you, or they've been married even more times
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than you have, and they talk about how you're just
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a failure at marriage. You know, you're a failure at relationships,
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you know, And so really look at that too, look
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at their Achilles hill as well. And I'm not saying
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that we beat others down, but I'm just saying prepare
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because they have a lot that you can trigger them with.
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And I hate to say this, but you know, sometimes
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you got to play hardball a little bit, because if
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you think about it, you can't just let them beat
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you up on a constant basis emotionally.
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But the first thing is, I'd rather take the.
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High ground than, you know, than get in the mud
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with them, because they're very good about turning things on you.
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And if you are codependent in nature at all, you
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will feel bad about doing the wrong thing. And that's
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another thing too, is it's not necessarily doing the wrong
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thing right, it's actually standing up for yourself. And so
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you know, another thing that we need to be aware
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of is the codependent tendencies in the narcissistic relationship. Okay,
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that is what we need to do. That is what
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we need to focus on. The codependent tendencies in the
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narcissistic relationship is what needs to be looked at and observed.
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And this is very important.
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Because if you have codependent tendencies, you have a tendency
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of owning the problem. You own it, You own the problem.
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So if there's a trigger, when they trigger you, you
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feel bad and you play right into their hand, you
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play right into their hand. And that is what we
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need to work on because if you're playing right into
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their hand, you're a supply for them, and they will
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beat up their supply. And we need to be aware
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of that because I want to safeguard you so that
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you don't have to deal with this any longer. This
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is not fair, and many of us will have to
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think about our relationships and where we're going with these