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Love Life With Matthew Hussey

How to Know If You’re Dating a Narcissist | Rewind

Love Life With Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, 971900

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Narcissists walk among us . . . but what makes us stay with such people?


In the beginning, sadly, many people fail to see the long-term damage a relationship with a narcissist (or narcissistically inclined person) can cause. From confidence to superficial charm or even intensity, it's easy to mistake narcissistic traits as positive ones in the beginning of a relationship. But after quickly sucking you in, they gaslight you, make you forget yourself, and cause you to start justifying all kinds of toxic behavior. All in the name of control disguised as love.


If you've been in a relationship that has made you question your sanity, this episode is for you . . .


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0:00.0

People so often just want to analyze, like, do you think this person is a narcissist?

0:09.9

Why do they do this?

0:11.0

What reason would they have?

0:12.7

They sound understanding.

0:14.6

Eventually, it's like, it doesn't really matter.

0:17.5

I see people get so lost in the web of trying to crack the code of someone's

0:23.4

thoughts and mind read. And they said this though. But eventually it's like, what's the actual

0:30.6

difference to you if it doesn't manifest in any actual different actions if they treat you like they don't care, but they make all

0:39.9

the right noises about it. It makes no difference. We have to be present with the way that our life

0:47.7

actually is, not how we would like it to be, and what someone has for the 10th time promised us it will be,

1:00.9

but it's not actually showing itself to be true.

1:05.7

We have to look at our life the way it is,

1:08.7

and we have to check in with ourselves and our feelings and say,

1:15.5

what is my experience of this? The person I'm with keeps telling me what my experience is,

1:24.6

or how good I have it, or that I'm making too much of things or that I'm crazy

1:29.7

or that they'll change. But what is my actual experience of this? And come to think of it,

1:40.3

you know, a good barometer sometimes can be other people in your life and how they make you

1:50.2

feel. And hopefully, you know, if you have the skill of putting good people in your life,

1:58.9

some people, you know, they make awful mistakes when it comes to their relationships, right?

2:06.3

We're all capable of that.

2:07.7

And we also often make awful mistakes when it comes to family because family are the, you know, friends,

2:17.1

that's saying friends are the family we choose right well family are the

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