Number 4: Faking empathy.
Faking empathy to appear deep and collect admirers. Empathy is sacred. It is the space where healing happens, where love grows, where souls meet. But for narcissists, empathy is not a feeling; it’s a mask. They study it, imitate it, and use it as bait. They will ask deep questions, cry with you, for you, and look into your eyes like they truly care. But if you pay close attention while they do all this drama, you’ll find out their bodies are tense. Their eyes keep flickering to your reaction, and their concern vanishes when the spotlight moves away from them.
Because they do not want to feel with you; they want to extract from you. The more pain you share, the deeper they seem. The more they seem, the more admiration they collect. It’s not empathy; it’s theater a costume they wear to collect loyalty, secrets, and emotional leverage. And when they no longer need your vulnerability, when you’re already in the trap, they will weaponize it: use it to shame you, twist it to silence you, turn it into a weapon you never saw coming.
Number 5: Creating misunderstandings.
Creating misunderstandings between people and secretly enjoying the fallout. This is demonic, let me put it as it is. Narcissists are emotional saboteurs. They plant small seeds of doubt between people, then step back and watch the fallout like a reality show: a twisted retelling here, a concerned suggestion whispered just loud enough. They don’t do it because they hate the people involved; it’s more than that. They do it because it gives them a high.
Seeing people turn against each other, break trust, and spiral emotionally feeds the narcissist’s god complex, like it fed my grandfather’s ego all the time. It reinforces the idea that they are the mastermind behind the scenes, smarter, more powerful, invincible, and invisible. It also isolates you. When the people you once trusted start doubting you, the narcissist becomes your only anchor. They break your bonds just so they can become your only safe space. And then they poison that too. This is psychological sadism as social intelligence.
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