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Will a narcissist ever admit to being wrong? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  What is going on, beautiful people?
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  What was another episode of the Narcissist code?
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  I'm your favorite selfaware narcissist, Mr. Lee Hammock,
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  better known as mental illness across all social media
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  platforms. This is your first time seeing
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  my face or hearing my lovely voice.
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  I'm a clinically diagnosed narcissist and I use my platform
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  on social media to raise awareness for NPD.
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  Get more people into therapy like myself, and also validate
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  the victims, survivors and thrivers of said disorder.
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  Thrivers I flex when I say drivers don't.
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  Today's episode is going to be about will a narcissist ever
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  admit to being wrong? Will a narcissistic person ever
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  admit openly admit to being wrong?
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  I was wrong and mean it. Before we hop into today's
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  done within the next week or so. So stay tuned for the self Love
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  course to go along with the self love journal as well.
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  But yeah yeah yeah yeah y'all. Will a narcissist ever admit to
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  being wrong? This may surprise you.
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  I know everybody's going to say right now, emphatically no.
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  Least stop it right now. We're not watching any any
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  further past this. It's past this right here.
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  The answer to that question is going to be no.
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  And most of the time, y'all that is absolutely correct.
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  Most narcissistic people talk to people will rarely, if ever,
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  admit to being wrong. Well, why don't they?
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  Why can't they just admit to being wrong so we can just move
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  forward? Because some narcissistic people
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  do not want to move forward if they are wrong.
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  It just like if if I move like you see that I have a book bag
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  right here. Y'all you'll see this book bag.
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  If I move forward with you and I admit to being wrong.
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  That's me putting shame, this is shame into this book bag and
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  carry carrying it along with me. I want my book back to be shame
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  free. I want a light book back.
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  I want to pack lightly. You see what I'm saying?
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  I don't. I want my stuff to be shame
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  free. I want to pack lightly.
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  I don't want to carry shame into the future with me.
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  So I do not want to admit to being wrong.
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  I do not want to admit to be the.
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  I don't want to admit it. I've just refused.
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  It just hurt. It sucks.
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  Admitting, taking, taking accountability, admitting that I
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  was wrong is, you know, it just it sucks.
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  It hurts. But there's OK, but bear with me
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  right here. Y'all.
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  But there is a difference between admitting that you were
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  wrong and then admitting somebody else's right?
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  Let me say it again. There is a difference between
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  admitting that I am wrong and then admitting that you were
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  right. You see what I'm saying?
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  Some narcissistic people would rather it would just take it to
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  the grave with them, then admit that you were right.
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  Admitting that you were right, y'all, is more painful than
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  admitting that admitting that I was wrong, I was wrong.
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  I was going to say some narcissisted people were
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  absolutely admit to being wrong, but they will refuse to admit
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  that you were right. Because that shifts the power
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  into you. If I admit that I, if I just
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  admit to being wrong in some circumstances, in some, in some
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  instances, that you know, if I admit to some circumstances, in
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  some instances to being wrong. Then guess what?
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  This I I did that this me being in the control of how much I am
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  willing to admit of how much that I'm willing to concede to
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  you. You see what I'm saying?
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  But if I admit to you being right, then it gives you the
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  power. You can stomp me.
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  You have power over me. You have control over me.
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  It feels like if I do that in my mind, it feels like you are
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  above me for some reason. It feels like now I have to seek
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  out you for approval or something like that.
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  And I don't want to answer to you.
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  I don't like people telling me what to do.
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  I have a problem with authority and you know like a lot of
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  narcissists and toxic people do, we have we a lot of us have
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  problems with authority and that's just how it works.
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  And I'm I'm not making, I'm not making excuses for it but that's
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  how it goes a lot of times when you're dealing with narcissists
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  and or toxic people we have problems with authority.
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  It's not something that I would I enjoy and then people think I
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  enjoy having problems with authority or there's some
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  Narciss like enjoy having problems with authority.
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  I just don't like people having power of me and control over me
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  because if I admit that you are right.
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  Then guess what? You have the power.
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  I feel like I lose control. I have control of admitting
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  whether or not I was right or wrong.
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  You see what I'm saying? So what most most narcissistic
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  people would absolutely just say Hell no, I didn't do that.
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  I'm not saying nothing. They like and rather than look.
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  So rather than just admit to being wrong, some narcissistic
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  people would just stop talking to you at all.
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  They were refused to communicate with you.
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  They'll give you this. They would rather give you the
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  silent treatment than admit to being wrong.
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  They would rather just take that, you know.
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  They would rather give them give you the silent treatment or hurt
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  your feelings or rage out on you or ghost you or, you know, may
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  Stonewall you or something like that to pretend you don't exist
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  to invalidate your power over them.
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  They were just refused to communicate.
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  Some of them will just pretend like some of them will give you
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  the silent treatment so the issue goes away, then pretend
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  like nothing happened. That happens quite a bit into
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  some of these types in a lot of these types of relationships
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  where instead of just admitting to being wrong.
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  They they let the shame take over and they won't talk to you.
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  They'll give you the silent treatment.
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  And like I said, some of them will absolutely start yelling
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  and screaming at you, raging out on you and things like that.
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  And again, y'all, it's not your fault for being right.
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  And sometimes it gets a lot of times the narcissistic person
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  like this isn't your if this isn't your first rodeo.
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  With this narcissistic person and how they behave when you try
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  to hold them accountable, you understand.
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  You understand exactly what I'm about to say.
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  Sometimes they condition you to just not even bring it up.
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  Even if you know you are right, you don't even bring it up.
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  You let the narcissistic person admit, get to the point where
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  they just admit to being wrong or just like that I messed up.
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  You just let them do it on their own.
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  You let them get to you let them get to that decision.
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  You let them get to that. You let them get to that point
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  on their own. You let them get to that
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  conclusion. On their own, because you don't
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  want to interfere with them. You don't want to make it seem
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  like you had anything to do with this because, like they feel
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  like if you trying to make me admit that I'm wrong, it's
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  completely different than me admitting that I'm wrong on my
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  own. You know what I'm saying?
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  They have us quite a bit, which is, you know, they condition you
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  to just not want to talk to them or just to be afraid to speak up
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  and things of that nature. When, like I said, they
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  condition you, it's it's y'all, it's it's conditioning.
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  Like like hair, like hair conditioner.
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  It happens like this all the time in toxic relationship
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  spaces and toxic relationship dynamics, where I say you'll be
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  dealing with a lot of narcissists and toxic people.
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  They will absolutely do just like this.
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  Y'all, they will just take you or they will take you for a
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  ride. They just will.
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  You know what I mean? They absolutely will take you
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  for a ride and just continue to mess with you, continue to mess
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  with your head, continue to invalidate you, continue to make
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  you feel like you don't matter to them, continue to do a lot of
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  different things to you. To just hurt your feelings, to
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  put you through it. Y'all.
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  It happens all the time in these types of relationship dynamics,
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  in these types of relationships spaces.
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  It just does. It's one of those things that
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  happens consistently. So I'm just, that's why I just
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  try to get people right now, where you are right now in your
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  space and in your life to just understand that, like sometimes
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  it's better to just like if you can't leave this narcissistic
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  person, you're trying to figure out how to live with them.
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  Sometimes it's better to just let them find it on their own
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  because they think. That if you Because if you try
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  to get them to admit being wrong, they think you're trying
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  to rub it in. And when you're trying to rub it
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  in, we take it as a personal attack, we take it as criticism.
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  You know, no, like very, not very many narcissists, self
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  aware or not, can take any type of criticism.
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  It just doesn't work that way. So they feel like you're trying
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  to criticize them or we, they feel like they're bad people,
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  all good. You know, narcissists, we have
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  this all good or all bad mindsets, so we feel like we are
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  bad people when we are wrong. It's just like, yeah, it is.
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  So it is such a ridiculous mindset to have like to feel
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  like a bad person even when you do something small wrong.
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  Lee, what is There's nothing small that you can do wrong,
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  though. Y'all I'm talking about like
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  some minor indiscretion, like leaving the refrigerator door
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  open, not closing the freezer all the way, forgetting to wash
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  the dishes, forgetting to take the trash out.
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  And you hear the forgetting to take the trash to the trash, to
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  the curb and you hear the trash man coming.
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  Stuff like that. You know what I mean?
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  Things like that in that, in that example right there, things
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  like that in that position, right there is.
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  I tell people it's not your fault.
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  It's just not y'all. And so many people take
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  responsibility and accountability for trying to
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  hold somebody accountable. In a normal relationship, in a
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  healthy normal, in a healthier relationship dynamic, you should
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  be able to hold your partner accountable and they should be
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  able to hold themselves accountable.
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  But in narcissistic relationships with a
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  narcissistic person, nobody can hold that person accountable,
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  not even themselves. They a lot of times they refuse
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  to hold themselves accountable. So how the hell are you supposed
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  to hold them accountable if they are not hold, if they were not
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  willing to hold themselves accountable?
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  You mean you're it's like you're fighting an uphill losing battle
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  in a lot of these situations, dealing with a lot of these
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  toxic people. Y'all and I hate that for a lot
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  of people. You know, I really do hate that
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  for a lot of people. I hate it for the I hate it for
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  the person dealing with the narcissist, the victim, survival
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  thrive. But I also hate it for the
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  narcissistic person that a lot of times you don't get to
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  experience life in its full capacity because you're running
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  away from shame. You're running away from
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  accountability. You're running away from just
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  admitting you, running away from something that could be minute.
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  And meeting that you are wrong, and this is for the narcissistic
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  person right there. And meeting that you are wrong
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  does not make you a completely bad person.
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  And that's that we get stuck in our minds.
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  A lot of the narcissists, we do get stuck in our minds thinking
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  that because we did something wrong with something small, that
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  we are inherently bad people now.
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  And that sucks. Y'all that absolutely sucks.
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  So another reason that some narcissisted people would admit
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  that they were wrong. So like I said earlier, y'all
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  some. Some narcissists will absolutely
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  admit to being wrong in certain circumstances if it benefits
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  them. What's the like when you deal
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  with a narcissist? Ask yourself this one question
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  right here. Y'all, what is the benefit?
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  What is the benefit? What is the benefit?
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  What is the benefit? For me, that's the question of
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  narcissist is asking themselves in their heads.
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  In our heads, we're asking ourselves this question.
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  How did this benefit me? What is the benefit of doing
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  this for me? So ask yourself that question.
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  What is? How does this benefit this
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  person? How can they benefit from this?
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  Because you have to try. You try to get them to take a
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  positive. If you're trying to get them to
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  take accountability for something, you have to somehow,
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  some way, shape or form, put an account, put a positive spin on
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  it. You don't mean.
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  You have to be able to put a positive spin on the situations
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  and what not as well, you know things like that.
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  But I just like that it's one of those things that it can help
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  you grow in the top and grow out of the types of relationship.
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  Because I said they're rarely if ever going to take
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  accountability, admit that they are wrong because many admitting
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  that we were wrong brings pain and it brings shame and it sucks
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  and it hurts. Y'all it's it really really
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