Mirroring: Absorbing Your Identity to Have One of Their Own

The Covert Narcissism Podcast · Oct 30, 2022 · 24m

Did you feel like you had the perfect soulmate for you? I remember saying, You’re like the male version of me, and I’m the female version of you. We just had so much in common and connected on so many levels.

Mirroring is a manipulative tactic used by covert narcissists to charm you and catch you as their prey. However, mirroring plays out in several ways in these toxic relationships. Understanding this can certainly help you to make more sense out of the crazy nightmare.

Mirroring is when one person, consciously or unconsciously, imitates the gestures, speech, patterns, attitudes, beliefs…