Why It’s So Difficult To Communicate With A Narcissist

Knowing This Can Save You From Needless Frustration

Written by JH Simon

Why It’s So Difficult To Communicate With A Narcissist

Because of their personality structure and relational paradigm, a narcissist makes communicating with them feel like a treacherous, uphill climb — or even downright impossible.

In a personal relationship, healthy communication involves the following elements:

  1. Open-Heartedness: When speaking with someone, you should welcome their emotional experience into your heart, empathising with and truly absorbing the experience they are conveying through their words.
  2. Shared Humanity: Through channeling empathy and allowing space for the other person to express authentically, you find opportunities to share in their humanity. Good communication involves deep attention paired with emotional attunement. Sometimes it involves simply sitting with the other person’s heavy emotions for a moment. Other times it means taking delight in the other person’s experience and being happy for them without needing validation.
  3. Mutuality:...

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