Emotional Childishness of Covert Narcissists

The Covert Narcissism Podcast · Jun 25, 2023 · 17m

Will they ever grow up?? Am I dealing with a child or an adult? Sometimes I really am not sure.

I’ve talked before about the lack of emotional growth in covert narcissists. They grow physically, mentally, even socially and in other ways. But not emotionally. Their emotional growth stopped at some point in their childhood, for various reasons, typically some sort of trauma including emotional neglect.

So they can certainly seem like a child when it comes to emotions, but they are trapped in an adult’s body and trying to function in an adult’s world. They look like an adult. At times they act…