Equally perplexing, a narcissist may often be online, actively texting others, while ignoring your messages. This behavior is deliberate—it’s a way to make you feel unimportant and question your worth. When you send a message and see that they’re online, but they don’t respond, it can be infuriating.
This calculated ignorance sends a clear message: they don’t value you as much as you value them. In the early stages of the relationship, they might have been very responsive, but now, they deliberately withhold attention, creating a dynamic where you start questioning yourself: “What did I do wrong? Why aren’t they responding?” This devaluation tactic is designed to keep you begging for attention, constantly trying to fix yourself to win back their interest.
3. Exploitative Sexting
Narcissists often turn to sexting as another manipulative tactic. While consensual sexting can be healthy in a relationship, with a narcissist, it happens way too early and feels forced. They may send you provocative images or suggestive messages soon after meeting, expecting you to engage without considering your feelings or boundaries.
You might find yourself participating, only to later feel degraded or ashamed, especially once the narcissist starts devaluing you. Sexting becomes a tool they use to exert control and diminish your self-worth. Narcissists are notorious for using multiple people for validation through sexting, collecting attention in the form of explicit content, and then dropping those individuals when they’ve had their fill.
4. Rare, Heartfelt Conversations – But There’s a Catch
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