Trusting Your Gut: How to Avoid Dating Another Narcissist

J. A. Jackson Author
4 min readJun 20, 2024

I had a friend, who dated a narcissist for almost five years. She described those years as a journey through hell and back, with extreme highs of attraction followed by devastating lows of rejection and abuse. The relationship was filled with all the narcissist tools from their tool belt. Narcissist tools such as gaslighting, excessive admiration, a sense of entitlement, exploitative behavior, manipulation, mental and verbal abuse, and constant confusion. Now that she’s out of that toxic relationship, she’s afraid to start dating again, wondering if she’s…

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