I don't understand. Someone made mention of this and I really believe this explains my relationship to a T.. but it suggests it's connected to narcissistic personality disorder. As much as I've been able to check off all boxes for RA, I don't believe my partner has NPD.

If this were the case, what else could I be dealing with? Our counselor "fired" us and mentioned she felt he was the problem in our relationship and needed further individual counseling to work on his emotional intelligence.

What causes someone to have low EQ? I don't want to flood this thread with many examples.. I'm just trying to understand him. We have 2 very young children.