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Why Do Narcissists Change Jobs Or Get Fired So Much? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  So why do narcissists get fired so dango much?
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  Why do they change jobs so much? Like why is job consistency so
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  like uncommon with narcissistic people?
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  Now I'm not saying that there are not narcissists out there
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  that don't have jobs for a very long time.
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  Like just just in place, right? There's the same factory, same
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  office, same whatever forever, right?
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  But you hear a lot of stories about narcissists.
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  They keep getting fired a lot. They can't hold down a job.
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  They're all always changing career paths or have new dreams
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  and goals and things like that. So that's what we talked about
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  today, y'all, literally, that's what we breaking down today.
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  If you're new here, Lee Hammock, diagnosed narcissist, give you
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  the inner look at the mind of a narcissist.
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  And yes, we just hit the gym so and yes, we got to get our
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  recordings out for today. So yes, narcissistic people,
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  y'all hate authority figures. I, I think that goes without
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  saying. I think that goes without
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  saying. I just think that most people
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  would understand that narcissists hate hate authority
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  figures. They really do like we really
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  do. I hate when people are above me
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  in any kind of circumstances, right?
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  Especially in the workplace. So if because you know, most
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  narcissists have the illusions of grandeur and they have
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  problems with authority and taking orders and having people
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  feel like they're above them. So in the workplace, if I have a
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  boss or somebody else that I feel like I'm above, if I if I
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  feel like I'm entitled to more than what I've got, I've got
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  right now, then yes, I'm going to typically call, make some
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  waves in their workplace and probably see myself out or
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  somebody's going to see me out of there.
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  Right. This happens to so many
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  narcissistic people. I promise you it does.
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  Like when you're dealing with the narcissist, Like I hear so
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  many stories when I'm doing my one on ones over zoom at
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  mentalillness.net. The of people saying that
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  narcissistic partner has had like they've been the other for
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  10 years. They've had 35 jobs, Will Lee or
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  or they had one job and they just haven't worked it in fair.
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  They got one job fired and just refused to work.
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  Again. I've heard this story countless
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  times, and not just from women. I've heard this or from men as
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  well. So it's just like, is this is
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  kind of, you know, the genders kind of throw out the window
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  right here. But because narcissistic people
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  hate having authority figures, we just do.
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  Yeah. We cannot stand when there's
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  somebody above us, so we tend to act out.
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  We feel, we always feel like we deserve more, like we are
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  destined for more. So the fact that I'm, I feel
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  like I'm destined for more should like I'm here in his
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  workplace or whatever. If, especially if it's a job
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  that I feel like it's beneath me, then hell yeah, I'm going to
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  act up. Hell yeah, I'm going to act out.
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  Hell yeah. I'm probably going to get fired
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  or quit very soon because I think I'm destined for more.
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  And then you get a look, if you're the partner or the parent
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  or whoever is dealing with this narcissist, right, or this
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  narcissistic person, if you are the partner or somebody close to
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  them when they, when they get fired, sometimes they're going
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  to expect you to always support them no matter what.
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  I had to quit that job today, babe.
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  Oh my God, why? Because like I'm, I'm, it's just
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  not, it's just not for me. I feel like I'm destined for
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  more. I have to do more.
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  I I need to do more. I I I I I deserve better than
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  that. OK.
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  But you, I'm not saying anything about you.
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  You're like, OK, what? What were you going to say?
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  I just feel like you dropped out of high school.
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  You didn't go get your GEDGED by choice.
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  All these are choices. You say you're too smart for
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  high school, you're too smart for college, you're too smart
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  for the GED now you're too good for the job.
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  I'm just saying he. Said you don't believe in me.
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  You don't even believe me. See, that's why I've been
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  cheating on you. That's why me put my hands on
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  you. Because you don't believe me.
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  I need somebody who believes in me.
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  And see, you see how stupid that sounds are all right there.
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  There's a lot of narcissists and this is not me picking up
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  anybody who dropped out of high school or because some people
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  when they were y'all were younger, you had to drop out of
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  high school and stuff like that to work.
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  I know that times are different. IA 100% understand that right
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  had to help all the fountain. This is not me chastising y'all
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  because y'all have worked hard and you're doing what you need
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  to do narcissist. The people, on the other hand,
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  feel like they they are qualified for more even though
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  they have intentionally not put the work in.
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  You say, so if I have a, if I'm a narcissist and I have a job,
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  if I work in the workplace, then I'm always going to feel like
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  I'm destined for more like y'all.
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  Even like my last, I would say my last real job, I still work
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  now. My last warehouse job before I
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  started doing it, before I became a real estate agent, I
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  worked at Harris Teeter Distribution Center in
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  Greensboro, NC. I've worked there for like 6 1/2
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  years. While I was there, I always felt
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  like I had, I had bosses. They were telling me what to do
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  and I was in college. I'm like, what the hell?
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  I'm like how y'all who who are y'all to tell me what to do and
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  then when I graduated college, it got way worse when I got my
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  when I got my degree from ANTNTANT algebra, I got my
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  industrial engineering degree. I just feel like I was on top of
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  the world. I like what the hell I'm above
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  all y'all ain't my little 10 more do My hubris was crazy.
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  My ego was just insanely crazy. It really was y'all.
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  I still been with that shout out to Harris heated that it when I
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  graduated. They did put my name on like a
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  little board as like recent graduates, Demon Hammock.
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  They're kind of agricultural and technical State University
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  industrial engineering. I was like, I love this.
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  I appreciate shout out to y'all who did that for me.
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  Y'all see I'm smiling now. I'm grateful for that.
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  I really am. But it doesn't take the way to
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  ego bring my ego back, right. It doesn't take the way the fact
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  that I feel like I was always destined for more and deserve
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  more. Yeah, it's a damn bug in here
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  flying around that's attracted to my my lights.
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  And it's just that's why you see my eyes do that right there.
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  I thought it was going to try to fly at me, like attack me.
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  I'm just recording. I'm talking about you little
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  narcissistic bug. I'm talking about narcissists
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  here and you trying to fly and distract me.
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  Are you a narcissist bug? But yeah, this super shout out
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  to Harris Teeter. But there are.
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  So if you're dealing with a narcissist that keeps doing this
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  job, I'm not saying they're ever going to stop doing it, right?
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  And the crazy thing about it is you get the narcissist who gets
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  fired a lot or just changes job so much that tries to be an
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  entrepreneur, but they're not good at that either.
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  They actually need the discipline and the structure of
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  a job, but they don't they don't want that because they feel like
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  they're more entitled and their egos are so big.
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  So they feel like they're going to be an entrepreneur where they
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  don't have any good ideas or the drive or the discipline to be an
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  entrepreneur. So that that inevitably drags
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  everybody else in the household or everybody else around me.
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  It drags us down, right? It drags everybody else down.
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  You feel everybody else is going to feel it, right?
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  If I'm feeling that certain type of way, everybody else is going
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  to feel that certain type of way as well.
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  Because how dare you get to feel good when I feel bad?
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  How dare you get, you get to do some things, but I don't get to
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  do those things. You see how the mind works on an
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  artist. It's just like they always
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  expect your support or whatever, no matter what the hell they do.
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  And this can be draining you. I promise you this can be
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  draining and this can go like there.
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  There's a small caveat in here as well.
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  This could go for the narcissistic person that had a
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  good job, lost a job, but then refuses to go take a job in
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  another field or something. They feel like it's beneath
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  them. I've heard those stories of my
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  one of my Zoom calls as well. Got to my zoom calls.
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  Mental illness.net. A lady told me a story one time
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  before where she said her husband like was an account
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  executive and the company shut down.
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  And this was 14 years ago. He got he's like laid out 14
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  years ago. He's been job hunting ever since
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  then. So he's been chilling for 14
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  years while she had to pick up another job.
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  And then he just got comfortable.
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  He's like, well, I'm looking for a job in the same field.
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  Nobody wants to hire me. They're not there's not a lot of
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  jobs out there, right? There's not a lot of jobs out
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  there for me. So he been chilling for 14
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  years. He had job offers, but he kept
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  denying them because he felt like they were beneath him.
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  So he'd been chilling for 14 years living off his wife,
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  right? And she's frustrated.
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  I think she's just, she's getting ready to file for
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  divorce. But guess what?
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  This is what narcissistic people do.
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  Because he hasn't worked in 14 years and she has two jobs with
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  for a pretty decent pretty decent income, he's going to
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  take her for alimony. He been bumming for 14 years,
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  refused to get another job. And because he he's unemployed
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  for 14 years, he's going to hit her in the head for alimony.
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  He's like, you leave me, I'm going to get alimony.
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  I already talked to an attorney. I took your money, wouldn't hire
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  an attorney. An attorney said I'm qualified
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  for this much alimony and you can't just quit one of your jobs
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  because of that. So now she has to keep working 2
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  jobs to cover the household while he sits on his ass and now
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  he's just refusing to get a job because if he gets a job he
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  won't qualify for alimony no more.
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  Which is evil I'm telling you. So if you're in a situation with
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  a narcissist who refuses to find a job and you're and you're
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  working your ass off and they just keep getting fired over and
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  over again, they possibility to check your state laws because
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  that possibility could exist for you as well.
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  Well, your partner refuses to work and then you try to leave
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  them and then you have to pay them alimony.
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  Y'all been, they've been the previous couple was married for
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  a long time. So she's going to have to pay
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  alimony for years, years. You know, I don't think alimony
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  is forever in the state that she was in.
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  It's determined by how long y'all married.
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  So she used to, I think she's at 5 to 10 years or something like
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  that of alimony, which is a lot of her income, which you see
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  what I'm saying? It's just it's cheaper to keep
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  him. So now she feels like she's
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  trapped in the marriage she doesn't want to be in.
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  And he he's getting lazy and stinking and sitting on the
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  couch all the time. So the narcissist, the people
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  will absolutely take advantage of you.
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  So I'm just saying before it gets out of hand, y'all, this is
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  something for y'all. That's why I told you share
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  their story with y'all. Because before it gets out of
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  hand, if you're in a similar situation, you might want to be
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  preparing for that because they will hit you in the head for
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  alimony. Even as a man sitting on a
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  couch, woman, they will hit you in the head for alimony.
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  The previous story I told you was a man.
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  He just refused. He was an account executive.
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  He has a good education. He just refused to get another
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  job because he felt like everything's beneath him.
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  And then he just got lazy as hell, right?
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  So they can apply for them as well.
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  There's a lot of narcissists that get fired and a lot of
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  narcissists that quit. But there are some narcissists
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  that follow into that category where they feel like they will
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  not, will not accept a job that they feel like it's beneath
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  them. And no matter how long.
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  And he just, I think he just used it as a tool to just sit on
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  a sit his stinking ass on the couch all the time.
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  He wasn't like I said, he wasn't even a stay at home dad.
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  Like he wasn't taking care of the kids.
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  Like she was doing it. Like, yeah, she was doing
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  everything. I was just I felt bad for her.
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  I was like, he's been going for 14 years with his big stinking
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  ass been sitting on the couch hasn't helped at all with it
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  doesn't help. Doesn't even go pick up the
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  kids. So she had to get this is she
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  had to get off of her first job, go pick the kids up from school
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  because they live. They didn't live on a bus route
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  and he dropped the kids off at home and then go to her second
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  job while he's his stinking ass and stayed at home doing
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  nothing. He's still doing it now.
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  I hope she found a way around that to get divorced because
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  that's here. That's, that's this educated bum
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  this, this is somebody who's choosing to be a bum in that
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  situation right there in that scenario.
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  So yeah, that that type of stuff happens.
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  So some nurses, they just have this superiority complex where
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  they just feel like they're above jobs, they're above
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  working at a job, they're above their bosses, they're above, you
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  know, their circumstances, even though they haven't done
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  anything to qualify for seriously, they haven't done
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  anything to qualify for that type of stuff or for anything,
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  you know, scenarios. They just want, they want you to
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  convince you that they have. Yeah, it's a wild thing.
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  Yo. So I said it all to say this
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  y'all to get this point right here.
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  Protect yourself, protect your assets.
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  You know what I mean? I'm not telling y'all to be
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  manipulative and hide your assets in the offshore account
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  if you're dealing with the narcissist, but sometimes you
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  might have to, right? You just want to protect
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  yourself because like they that Lady I talked about a few
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  minutes ago, she was crying talking to me because now she
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  has because she's considering staying in a toxic relationship
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  because you got to pay him to leave.
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  It's kind of like you got paid him pay him to go away because
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  he's a bum, you know? Anyways, y'all probably this
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