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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Surviving Narcissism Podcast with your host, Dr. Les Carter. I'm Michaela, the

program director, and in today's episode, Dr. Carter will discuss how narcissists try to rob you of you.

Hello again, Team Healthy. I'm so pleased to be here with you once again to talk about how we're

going to survive all of this narcissistic behavior and communication and expectations that surround us.

And today I want to discuss something that, frankly, is rather baffling to me. I mean, I understand

it, but it doesn't mean it's not baffling. And I know it's baffling to me. I mean, I understand it, but it doesn't mean it's not baffling,

and I know it's baffling to you. And that is, I want to talk with you about how a narcissist

makes the effort to rob you of your own self. Now, that seems like a strange thing. I mean,

let's pull that back.

It makes no sense to me for any person, I don't care who it is and how smart they are,

it makes no sense for anyone to say, well, if you are attached to me, whether it's inside a family

or a marriage or in a friendship or at work,

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