Video summary
Dealing with a narcissist requires a complete reversal of standard relationship advice, where honesty is typically valued; instead, telling the truth to such individuals is akin to handing them a loaded gun pointed at oneself. Narcissists do not seek genuine connection but rather aim to inspect your vulnerabilities and weaknesses to determine exactly how to manipulate or strike against you later. By sharing your real feelings, past traumas, or financial struggles, you inadvertently provide them with an instruction manual on how to control you. To survive these emotional predators, one must strategically feed their system corrupted information, effectively blinding them to your true self and preventing them from finding old wounds to exploit.
The video outlines five specific lies that serve as a defensive shield to protect your happiness and sanity. First, you should claim that your past relationships ended due to incompatibility rather than abuse or betrayal, denying the narcissist any blueprint on how to hurt you in the future. Second, you must fabricate a tight-knit circle of family and friends who check on you daily, creating an illusion of constant surveillance that discourages the narcissist from isolating you. Third, pretend to have no financial resources or assets, as narcissists often view partners as sources of wealth and will manufacture crises to drain your money if they believe you are vulnerable.
Finally, two more critical lies involve your emotional reactions and boundaries. You should tell them that you do not tolerate mind games and that your mind simply shuts down like a machine when faced with drama or confusion, depriving them of the emotional reaction they crave. The fifth lie is to assert that you will instantly detach and walk away without regret the moment you are disrespected, making the narcissist believe they cannot push your boundaries further. By adopting this bored, uninterested persona and hiding your real thoughts, history, and assets behind this strategic shield, you stop giving information that can be used as a weapon against you. Ultimately, lying to a narcissist is not about being mean or fake, but a necessary tactic to regain your freedom and keep your emotional energy safe from those who would use it to harm you.
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Normally, telling the truth would save a
relationship with someone you care for.
But when you're dealing with a
narcissist,
things are always the opposite.
So, telling a lie will keep you from
getting completely destroyed.
Because when you tell a narcissist the
truth, it's like giving someone a loaded
gun and pointing it at yourself.
Normal people use honesty to get closer
to you and understand you. Narcissists
use your honesty to track your
weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
They don't want a partner. They want to
inspect your assets
so they know exactly where to strike
later.
If you give them your real feelings,
you're just showing them where you're
weak and that's where they strike.
So to survive these emotional predators,
you must feed their system bad data.
Think of them like a computer virus.
If you feed their software corrupted
information, they lose the ability to
manipulate you because then they cannot
see your real self.
Which is why I recommend lying to a
narcissist strategically.
Here are five lies you must tell a
narcissist if you want to save your
happiness.
The first one is to tell the narcissist
your exes were good people and you broke
up because you weren't compatible.
Because normally when you meet someone
new, your natural instinct is to share
your past. You want to explain why
you're hurt or why you may appear
stressed or anxious.
You want people to understand.
So, if you tell a narcissist that your
last partner cheated on you, lied to
you, or stole from you, you may think
you're being honest and transparent.
But you're actually unconsciously
handing them an instruction manual on
how to manipulate you and what they're
going to be able to get away with.
Because they assume that if this has
happened to you before and you're the
one who was hurt and you didn't fight
back, then to them you're an easy
target.
They take notes on everything that hurt
you before. for whenever they want to
punish or control you later on. They use
those exact same moves because they
already know what works. They know your
triggers because you unconsciously gave
them the blueprint.
So to stop this from happening, you have
to change the narrative.
Look at them with a blank uninterested
face as though you're not really worried
or concerned about anything
and tell them your exes were good
people.
Nothing went wrong. The breakups happen
simply because you were not compatible.
Do not give them any extra information.
Do not cry. Do not shed your wounds. Do
not be vulnerable.
and instead just act like you're reading
a boring weather report.
Because by doing this, you will corrupt
that that you will corrupt their system
and they won't be able to find an old
wound to scratch.
There won't be anything for them to sink
their claws and teeth into.
Number two,
you have a tight-knit circle of family
and friends who check on you daily.
This may not be true, but it is a lie
that can protect you from the
narcissist.
Because a predator never attacks a deer
when it is in the middle of the herds.
They wait until the deer wanders off
into the woods. They wait until the deer
is completely alone. A narcissist
operate the exact same way. Their main
goal in the relationship is to gradually
cut your lines of communication with the
outside world.
They isolate you. They clip your social
wings so that you cannot fly away when
things get bad.
If you tell the narcissist you're lonely
or that you don't talk to your family
anymore, you're flashing a giant green
light. You're telling them that no one
is watching you. You're telling them
that it's okay to gaslight you, scream
at you, and warp your reality
because then they will know that no one
is going to step in to give you a
reality check. So, you must construct a
fake security fence around yourself.
Tell them that you do have a tight-knit
circle of family and friends. Tell them
that people check on you every day.
Act like your people are a high-tech
security camera system.
Let them believe that your family always
knows your exact mood and state of mind.
Tell them your friends can spot a change
in your energy within 5 seconds,
but deliver the statement in a calm,
uninterested tone, like you're just
reading a shopping list.
Three, tell them you're broke and you
have no financial resources or assets.
Narcissists are natural parasites.
They have to feed off people in order to
survive.
So they look at your life and see a free
grocery store. They don't want your
heart. They want your bank accounts,
your car, your home, your lifestyle.
So if you are open and honest about your
finances, you are leaving the bank vault
wide open for them to walk in. All of a
sudden they will start manufacturing
these crisises or emergencies.
Their car will break down out of
nowhere. They will unexpectedly lose
their job. They will find a magical
business idea that needs your
investment.
And if you hesitate to give them your
money, they will twist it around on you.
They will call you selfish and
unsupportive.
So tell them you're broke. Tell them you
have no financial resources or assets
and watch them not want to bother with
you anymore.
But if they do become aware that you're
receiving money, tell them the money
goes to old family obligations, strict
long-term investments, or HIMP debts.
Act like you're living paycheck to
paycheck with zero money to spare.
Four, tell them you do not tolerate mind
games and completely shut down at the
first sign of drama.
Narcissists love getting you to jump
through hoops or getting you to do the
mental gymnastics.
They will throw everything at you at
once just to make you dizzy. They will
bring up tiny mistakes you made years
ago just to confuse you during a simple
argument.
because they want to destabilize you.
They want you unsure. They want you
lacking confidence in yourself and in a
state of desperation
where you're constantly trying to cling
to something, anything, or trying to
defend your character while they sit
back and watch because your emotional
pain and confusion is their narcissistic
supply. It makes them feel powerful and
in control.
So, if you show them that their drama
gives you anxiety or keeps you awake at
night, it's not going to stop and
they're not going to get better because
all you're doing is confirming that
their weapons work perfectly. You're
giving them confirmation to continue
with their agenda.
Which is why you must calmly state that
you do not tolerate drama or mind games
rather than framing it as an angry moral
rule. Tell them your brain is wired like
a machine. The exact moment a
conversation becomes confusing,
manipulative or toxic. Your mind
instantly turns off.
You become bored rather than overly
interested or enthusiastic.
Tell them you do not get mad or get sad
about it. You just get very sleepy and
stop paying attention.
And when they realize that their
favorite psychological circus produces
absolute silence instead of a big
emotional reaction,
they will stop wasting their energy
trying to scramble your mind.
Five, tell them you will detach
instantly. and walk away for goods the
moment someone disrespects you.
The narcissist is like a person testing
an electric fence or taunting and
teasing a wild animal to see how much
they can get away with.
So they will push a little bit here and
there just to see how far they can get,
but they almost always start with small
insults or boundary violations
because they want to see how much
mistreatment you will tolerate before
you finally snap.
And eventually they have it all mapped
out. They already know what they can say
or what they can do without you calling
them out in it or walking away from
them. and they gradually normalize this
behavior to you. They stretch your
boundaries
so that what may have seemed extreme
before now seems relatively normal to
you. But it's actually only normal in
this alternate reality, they have
constructed for you.
That's how when predators like this are
finally exposed,
like in the Epstein or PD cases, the
public are shocked. They wonder how it
could have gone this far. But it's
because narcissists push and stretch
their victim's boundaries gradually.
They teach you to tolerate and accept
these things over a long period of time.
It's like the boiling frog syndrome.
The frog doesn't notice when the heat is
turned up gradually until eventually the
frog is boiled alive.
Even though it could have jumped out of
the pot a long time ago.
This is psychological manipulation. You
often don't even know when you're in it.
You don't realize how bad it is. You
don't even fully understand that it is
wrong. If you did, it wouldn't be
effective and they wouldn't use this
tactic.
But it is actually one of the most
common tactics narcissists use because
it is very effective.
It's how victims appear to give them a
lifelong license to treat them like
dudes. It's why victims appear to stick
around no matter what, no matter how
poorly they behave.
Because you're telling them that no
matter how poorly they behave, your
natural instinct will be to try harder
to please them.
So you must make them believe that you
have the power to detach instantly and
walk away. The moment someone shows you
disrespect,
explain that you do not hold grudges,
you do not hold tantrums, you do not
negotiate.
Your feelings simply vanish into thin
air and you walk away without any
regrets.
Because when the narcissist believes
that you can discard them and walk away
without any emotional pain, they will
become extremely cautious
because they will realize that their
usual manipulation tactics will not pull
you in deeper. They will simply make you
disappear.
So trying to be honest with a narcissist
is really just a form of psychological
self harm. Lying to them is not about
being mean. It's not about being like
them. It's not about being fake or
manipulative.
It is a strategic defensive shield which
is designed to save your sanity, protect
your money, and keep your emotional
energy out of their reach.
And when you stop giving your
information to people who only want to
use it as a weapon against you, you gain
back your freedom.
So never engage directly with a
narcissist. Keep your real thoughts,
your real history, and your real assets
hidden safely behind this defensive
shield and let the bored uninterested
persona handle everything else.
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worked for you. Thank you for watching
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