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Are narcissists attracted to other narcissists? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  So are narcissists attracted to other narcissists and toxic
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  people? If you're new here, my name is
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  Lee Hammock. I'm a clinically diagnosed
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  narcissist and welcome to another episode of the
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  Narcissist Code. So welcome back, Welcome back.
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  Welcome back. So, yeah.
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  Oh goodness gracious. So are narcissists attracted to
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  other narcissists? The the answer to this question
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  right here, y'all it's going to be it's can narcissists end up
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  together? Yes, they can absolutely end up
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  together. So as a diagnosed narcissist
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  myself, am I attracted to being friends and in relationships
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  with other narcissists or toxic people?
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  I used to be, you know, just being realistic.
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  I used to be. I've dated narcissistic women
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  before. I really have.
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  And it is not. Ten out of 10 do not recommend.
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  But that's what that's how it happens sometimes.
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  Like sometimes it's like a weird type of energy that pulls you
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  into this relationship dynamic with a person.
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  Because y'all, maybe y'all are in close proximity to to one
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  another, because you work together.
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  Maybe y'all are been friends for a long time or whatever.
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  You just met and y'all have mutual friends and now y'all
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  have connected and both of y'all have similar stories and similar
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  traumas and similar neglect and similar backgrounds.
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  And that draws you to a person or that person's personality
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  matches yours to a team. You can sense it.
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  It's not like you can sense it and it pulls you together and
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  it's extremely, yeah, it doesn't start off extremely toxic.
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  It start off, it starts off just like the the basis of a regular
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  non narcissistic relationship I would reckon.
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  But it gets toxic really fast because you have two people in
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  this situation that are trying to sometimes two people are love
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  bombing each other, right? Two people are love bombing each
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  other. Two people are trying to be
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  together in this space. In this situation, two people
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  are trying to mirror each other. So like, nobody really has an
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  identity here. So if we were just meeting and
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  I'm pretending I'm acting like you and you mirroring me, it's
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  like who the hell is being real in this situation?
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  You know, because there are some narcissists out there,
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  especially some of the self aware ones that will go for
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  other narcissists. They they only are attracted to
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  other narcissists like this is this, this is the height of
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  their level of attraction. They just are like I need
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  another narcissist because then I would least we'll understand
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  each other. Then I won't have to spend
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  myself, have to spend my. I spend a lot of my time
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  explaining myself to the other person about how my emotions
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  don't click and how I just don't really connect to one.
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  One person won't be enough. They'll understand it and we'll
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  cheat on each other and we'll be super toxic or whatever
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  together, blah blah blah. It's crazy.
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  It's a crazy, it makes sense, but it's also at the same time a
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  crazy dynamic because you said you'll be cheating on each other
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  and you'll be going back and forth and neither one of y'all
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  can trust the other person. It it's it's craziness
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  sometimes, you know? But there are some narcissists
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  out there who are just kind of pulled towards each other.
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  And I know that some of y'all can understand this is what it's
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  understand this as well because maybe your toxic narcissistic ex
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  ended up with a has another narcissistic partner.
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  You know has a narcissistic toxic partner that's already had
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  been narcissists but they can't be toxic as hell.
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  Their their toxicity pulled them to each other and now they're
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  both taps kind of teamed up to be toxic against you.
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  You know, realistically this happened in the situation with
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  one of my friends. Her name is Lisa Sunny.
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  She her name is stronger than before.
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  She wrote. She actually wrote this book,
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  right. She wrote this.
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  She wrote the trauma. She wrote the Trauma Bond
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  Recovery journal. It's on Amazon.
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  Help people break the trauma bond.
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  Her narcissistic ex, sociopathic ex actually left her and ended
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  up with a, you know, possibly worse woman.
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  You see what I'm saying? A worst part had a worst
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  partner, so to speak. Allegedly, Zola Legend left her
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  for a a worse part, and a partner is complicit in the
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  harassment of her. They they've teamed up and been
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  equally harassing me, equally toxic and whatnot.
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  It's just part of the story. And you know, it's just written
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  out. But it happens.
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  They can be equally toxic, equally abusive, equally
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  manipulative and whatnot. That happens sometimes right
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  there in that space. You know what I mean?
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  One of her ex partner, I don't know if you know, one of her ex
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  partners back in the day left her and now they both are
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  together and both being toxic together.
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  It happens. It happens to the best of you.
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  It happens to the best of you sometimes, you know,
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  realistically. So that's why I tell people
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  within this space and within this dynamic, that's what
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  happens. Sometimes narcissists end up
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  together, sometimes it's sometimes it's through the
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  attraction and sometimes it's just through, you know, they
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  just end up together and then they both end up being toxic as
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  hell to each other. Like, damn, both of us are toxic
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  as hell. It doesn't always start off.
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  It's just like oh we're we're going to fall in love.
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  We're both narcissists, you know, very rarely does does it
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  happen. But some self aware narcissists
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  or borderline do end up together.
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  You know what I mean? Sometimes that does happen
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  within these spaces and in these dynamics.
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  So I just tell people to you know keep everything moving
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  forward or like to power yourself up to just continue
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  moving forward and to keep keep strong.
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  Because if you, even if you've been like, let's say Lisa and
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  her situation, she allegedly getting harassed by two toxic
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  narcissistic people and they just get double teaming or
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  ganging up on her making up lies together, you know it's a force.
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  It's damn near a force to be reckoned with because two
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  narcissists together will try to exhaust victims on both sides of
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  the coin, so to speak, but victims on both sides of the
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  dynamic and whatnot, because that happens in real life.
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  So I want to tell people that in these situations, just be very
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  be, be very, very careful. Like, be very careful in these
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  situations because two narcissists together are.
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  Yeah, it's so toxic. Like I said, like my
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  relationship with my narcissistic ex was so toxic
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  that I it is, is over a decade ago.
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  I still bring it up in therapy every once in a while because it
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  just bothers me sometimes. It's like, you know, some of the
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  stuff that happened and some of the stuff that we were doing to
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  each other, it's super bothersome.
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  So narcissistic people could be attracted to another narcissist
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  because like you had me and my ex we definitely had very
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  similar stories about father's. Father's not been in our lives
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  and mother's kind of you know working all the time and we kind
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  of raised yeah we both have very similar stories so to speak so
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  but right now it's a whole different dynamic like so I
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  don't know would I go for a narcissist now or self award
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  when that's in therapy. They've been they've proven
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  track record of change behaviour maybe.
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  Maybe. But just I just don't recommend
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  if you're a narcissist, the ex it's the threat.
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  It's just, hey, I, you know, they're calling you a
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  narcissist. Because I think one of the main
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  reasons that I do get this question right here is because a
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  lot of people might be convinced that they themselves are
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  narcissists because they might have picked up narcissistic
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  fleas or narcissistic traits from their toxic ex.
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  So you might start acting narcissistic or feeling
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  narcissistic yourself. So you start to start blaming
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  yourself on a lot of the things that you do and a lot of the
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  things that happen. And you might be thinking that
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  this is a narcissist versus narcissist relationship that you
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  are in. Right.
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  But it doesn't mean that you're a narcissist in these
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  situations. Sometimes if you you've been
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  with a person for an extended period of time, you might start
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  to behave like them, you might start to act like them, you
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  know. So that happens quite a bit as
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  well because that I think that's the basis behind me.
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  Getting this question a lot is like, can two narcissists be
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  together or or narcissists attracted to each other?
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  Yeah, you can be together, but like how does it, you know, it
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  doesn't mean that you are a narcissist because you ended up
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  with a toxic partner. You might be both might be toxic
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  together. How were you before this
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  relationship started? You know, were you like this in
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  any other relationship or was it like be honest with yourself
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  too? Were you like this in any other
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  relationship or is it? Has this became some traits and
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  behaviors that you picked up to survive in your current
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  relationship? Those are questions you have to
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  ask yourself when you're trying to survive with a toxic,
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  narcissistic person. Y'all me with y'all.
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  I got to hop off here I have a one-on-one to do over zoom and
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  whatnot. Sit down for a little bit.
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