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Originally Posted by nowheretohide
People with high self-esteem don't need to be "pumped up" all the time like that - it's people who actually have very low self-esteem who are trying to over-compensate by acting/pretending they are better than other people (and needing to be told how great they are). Not saying all your boyfriends had NPD, but that is referred to as "narcissistic supply" in regards to narcissism. People with narcissism seem like they have soaring self-esteem (and have huge egos) but actually they have very low self-esteem. Maybe you are a narcissist magnet  |
Ha! Well, I think that I might be a narcissist magnet! I know that these guys really do have huge egos -- and maybe that isn't necessarily high self-esteem. But I know that two of these guys flat out said to me at some point, "I am know I am a good catch."
(the third guy was cut from the same cloth as the first two). Lesson learned.
That said, it bothers me that they each would accuse me of being a negative person when this is something I work on all the time. I guess I am also wondering if other people have been told that they are negative by people who have no knowledge of their disease? And if they believe that they are in fact not as negative as they are being told?