This is understanding today's narcissist.

Brought to you in part by psychcentral.com.

And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

Hi, and welcome back to our narcissistic abuse series, where we're going to be talking about

part six today, which will be money.

Since finances and money are so important in your everyday life, it is kind of interesting

to find out and discover different ways that people actually use money to abuse somebody

else.

So I really want to highlight that for you because it's often overlooked,

but does happen quite frequently. Money is a mechanism for control, which is a very typical

thing that people actually do. They use money to control other people. And narcissists know this all too well.

Even a little bit of money gives a narcissist a sense of power and domination over others.

They might start off small with little things like removing your name from the accounts,

and then it can grow into stealing threats and even extortion. So what does that actually look like? Well,

let's start with assets. So narcissistic abuse with money starts in the asset category.

They might be generous in giving presents, but then they might demand that you submit without a

question for, without any question whatsoever, to immediately comply with whatever their demands

might be. So just because they give you something, it feels like they are entitled to receive

something on the back end of that. They might flaunt their

money and even use it as a weapon against the people who might be less fortunate, including you or even

your family members. They might forbid you to have access to your money, literally removing your name

off of accounts or give you access to possessions

...