Love Avoidant or Covert Narcissist in Disguise?
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Loving a love-avoidant person can be frustrating, but so can be wondering if you are dealing with a covert narcissist in disguise. In this episode, relationship coach and codependency narcissistic abuse expert Lisa A. Romano, the Breakthrough Life Coach, unveils how to tell the difference between a love-avoidant and a covert narcissist. She explains the power of being able to intelligently and clearly identify the key differences so that you can determine what steps to take next in your relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness |
| 0:24.9 | rather than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope |
| 0:32.8 | as you spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | In today's session, we will discuss how to tell the difference between someone who is |
| 0:42.8 | love avoidant and someone who is actually a narcissist. This can be confusing because both |
| 0:49.2 | love avoidant and narcissist often share similar childhood wounds of abandonment and inconsistent maternal warmth. |
| 0:57.6 | When love is unpredictable and erratic, it is impossible to develop trust as an adult in others |
| 1:03.1 | and in one sense of worth when it comes to believing oneself is worthy of being loved. |
| 1:09.6 | So here are some things to consider when you are trying to |
| 1:12.1 | decipher if someone is a love avoidant or a covert narcissist. First, let's get a little bit clearer |
| 1:18.5 | about what being love avoidant means. A person who is love avoidant has a fear of getting too |
| 1:24.8 | close to others emotionally. They may push away people or avoid intimacy |
| 1:31.0 | because they are afraid of getting hurt. Love avoided individuals may struggle to trust others |
| 1:37.4 | and have difficulty expressing their feelings. This does not mean that they do not have feelings. |
| 1:43.4 | It just means that they are afraid to express themselves. |
| 1:47.0 | They fear that if you knew how they felt, you would use that against them or perhaps find |
| 1:52.0 | a reason to leave them. |
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