3/28/18: What is a Narcissist Exactly?

It ' s a cloudy, rainy, cold Tuesday and I ' m home by myself with my dog Bailey.  In other words, a normal day for me in the Chicago suburbs during the week.  I hate it here.  Today ' s weather suits how I feel about myself, the last 20 years of my life, my marriage, my life right now as it is.Mark, my hopefully very soon to be, is an non-diagnosed narcissist unless you include myself and a few that know him through me.  The idea that he is a narcissist would never have come for me.  I wouldn ' t have considered that in a million years, but I did not know what a narcissist was.  Even if I had, I would not have seriously considered it.  A new friend, Blake, made a comment that he was surprised I did not already know when I made an off hand joke that he was a narcissist.  But he was totally serious, and sounded absolutely convinced.  I put it out of my mind for a few days, but became curious what a narcissist actually was.I went from site to site on the internet and kept telling myself there is so much misinformation on the internet.  I checked academic sites and eventually came to the conclusion that either all of these people knew Mark personally and wrote bogus articles about him personally, and Mark was truly a narcissist.  Suddenly so many things in our relationship made sense that I could not understand.Worse than that, I started learning about " narcissistic abuse " and was in disbelief.  Had he been manipulati...
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