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Narcissistic Entitlement Explained: The Role They Expected You to Play
Narcissistic entitlement rarely looks like arrogance from the outside. Often it looks like two people with "different expectations" — normal disagreements, normal marriage friction. In this episode of the Covert Narcissism Podcast, Renee Swanson breaks down why that framing is misleading: in a relationship with a covert narcissist, one partner's expectations are about the relationship, and the other partner's expectations are simply about being served by it.
Renee shares her own story of slowly recognizing this pattern — long after she was living inside it — and unpacks the difference between…
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