This is understanding today's narcissist.

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And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

We are going to be talking about narcissism and dating apps.

There are so many dating apps out there to choose from, and we're going to talk about some of the

struggles that you might have as you peruse those dating applications, trying to find the next

perfect mate. And with me, I have Nate Webster, who is a person I have worked with before. He's

also a therapist as well, and he'll tell you a little

bit about himself and the topic that we will be talking about today.

Hey, Chris, thanks for having me. Yeah, so today we're going to be covering the topic of dating

apps and narcissism. Do dating apps help with the narcissism problem, exacerbate it, or make it easier?

And so Chris and I are going to be exploring today on that topic and see what we find.

Great. Thank you so much, Nate. Okay, so tell me a little bit about what you are seeing in regards to the dating applications.

Is it really becoming a problem for some people? Yeah, so dating

apps, I think the recent statistic was one out of three or five people are now meeting individuals

through dating apps. And so the probability of running into an issue with dating apps is just becoming more common.

And specifically, with some of the guys I work with, we're seeing a situation where they're just experiencing a lot of misses with the individuals they meet online.

At times, even individuals who kind of strike them as self-absorbed or I guess we would say narcissistic.

And so I've been working with that and have just been really curious to kind of talk about, is it making narcissism worse or better?

So when you're talking to people and they come across somebody that's really

attractive on a dating app, do they automatically kind of run it through a, could they be narcissistic

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