To keep control and breach your privacy, narcissists in severe situations may turn to stalking. They could relentlessly observe your online and offline behaviors to learn more about you and gain control over your life. Stalking behavior can take many different forms, including persistent observation, tracking your whereabouts, or unannounced appearances at locations you frequent. They might hack into your social media accounts or put tracking devices on your possessions to monitor you using technology.
You may feel continually on edge and violated due to this invasion of privacy, which can be tremendously upsetting. If you feel their behavior has crossed over into stalking, it is crucially important to alert local authorities, speak to a trusted friend, and not let the narcissist manipulate you into thinking you are overreacting or being unkind.
9. Love Bombing:
Narcissists utilize the extreme and manipulative technique of love bombing to overwhelm you with an outpouring of love, compliments, and presence to make you feel wanted, appreciated, and adored. The narcissist may make considerable efforts to fabricate an idealized relationship vision.
They may give you continual affection, send you frequent messages, make grand gestures, and compliment and flatter you. While they are in the love bombing phase, they want to establish themselves as the one person you can turn to for approval and love, making you feel dependent on them.
10. Triangulation:
Narcissists utilize the manipulative technique of triangulation to inflame conflict and instability in interpersonal relationships. They purposefully involve a third party, frequently an ex-partner, a friend, or a relative, to arouse sentiments of resentment, rivalry, or insecurity in you, thus keeping you under their control.
11. Emotional Blackmail:
Emotional blackmail is a manipulative strategy frequently employed by narcissists to exert control and pressure you into complying with their desires. They may use emotional manipulation tactics and threats to make you feel guilty, responsible, or obligated to fulfill their needs or resume contact. Narcissists may exploit your empathy and sense of responsibility by making you believe that their well-being or happiness depends solely on your actions.
They may use emotional manipulation such as exaggerated displays of sadness, self-harm tactics, or claims of being unable to function without you. By doing so, they seek to evoke a sense of guilt or fear, ultimately coercing you into meeting their demands or resuming contact against your better judgment.
12. Pity Ploys:
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