This reminds me of a movie classic starring Betty Davis called Mr Skeffington where she played a woman that only cared about how attractive she was and having different men pursuing her. Her real love was the attention and to just be dotted on.

What’s interesting about “classics” is how they capture behaviors in human beings that are in fact “timeless”. Every time someone talks about focusing on behaviors more than labels I do think of the many classics that did just that. If you were to watch this movie and focus on the behavior you would see just what I mean.

Betty Davis really did an excellent job in portraying this charecter’s clearly narcissistic behavior pattern of a woman who needed everything to revolve around her not seeing the emotional needs of others or even really caring.

Would be interesting to see what your wife would think of this movie. She may lack the depth to get it. One never knows.