Five emotionally intelligent tools may help you when you are dealing with a narcissist. These strategies draw from general components of emotional intelligence, including emotional regulation, an understanding of relational dynamics, and self-awareness.

If you are emotionally intelligent, you are usually aware of how you feel. Recognizing, identifying and processing difficult emotions allows you to understand them and to act on them constructively instead of defensively. However, a narcissist often gets you to doubt how you feel because they impose their distorted version of reality onto you. Getting you to distrust how you feel may be their most dangerous weapon. Therefore, one emotionally intelligent tool to use with a narcissist involves trusting what you feel. If you feel like something wildly unfair is happening in the relationship, then it probably is. Trust what you........

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