Narcissists Exploit Your Need to Be Needed
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We all need to be needed, and in healthy relationships, this need is valued and reciprocated. However, when it comes to highly narcissistic individuals, this need is exploited as a way to gain narcissistic supply. Lisa A. Romano, Certified Life Coach and bestselling author breaks it down.
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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 rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | We're going to be talking about how narcissists exploit the very natural human need to be needed. |
| 0:44.7 | If you are here, you're trying to learn about narcissism. |
| 0:49.1 | Narcissism is absolutely on the rise and we are all targets for narcissists. The thing that we have to |
| 0:57.5 | pay attention to is whether or not we are able to acknowledge red flags, whether or not we are |
| 1:02.8 | able to acknowledge when someone says something and their behavior doesn't match what they say, |
| 1:08.5 | and whether or not we're able to actually make decisions based on |
| 1:12.8 | when things like that happen. When we are dealing with a narcissist, we have been bombarded with |
| 1:18.6 | love bombing. We have been made to feel seen in ways that we have never felt before. |
| 1:25.3 | We are taught to or conditioned or brainwashed to believe that we can trust this |
| 1:30.8 | person, that they have our best interests at heart. They give us the sense that they want to |
| 1:36.4 | learn everything there is to know about us and we open up and we share. It feels good. When you're |
| 1:43.2 | dealing with a narcissist, they fast track you. |
| 1:45.9 | They have to. They don't have a lot of time to invest in figuring out whether or not you're going to be someone who trusts them early and will tolerate when they begin to devalue you. |
| 2:00.2 | They need to know if their gaslighting is going to work. |
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