When my NPD ex gf told me she loved me.

I have no problem using metaphors to describe her. Metaphors, similes, analogies. Whatever I can use to describe her abusive behavio, crazy making behavior. She was a pod person. An alien. A reptile? Maybe. Certainly an emotional vampire.
I expected to get a book from her for xmas entitiled... "To Serve Man"... it was a cookbook. Sure, I empathize with her plight. I know how she was abused in her childhood by an alcoholic father and a critical, demanding mother. I feel her pain. And I felt the pain she doled out to me and saw that which she inflicted upon her family. Fangs of a snake. Hisssssss!!!!