While narcissistic tendencies have been on the rise due to the “everyone’s a star” aspect of social media, individuals with narcissistic personality disorder are different in that their narcissistic qualities are significant enough to disrupt their lives and prohibit them from forming healthy relationships.

If you’ve never been mildly attracted to or a little infatuated with a narcissist, you may wonder how someone could fall for someone who will always think more of themselves than their partners. Unfortunately, narcissists are often attractive, engaging, and able to convince someone that they are the perfect partner for them. Narcissists are not only convinced that they are the brightest and the best, but they can also convince others of this. They project an image of themselves to a partner too good to be true. While they are generous “love bombers” at the start of a relationship, once they’ve captured their partner or once they’ve grown bored with them, their behavior changes. The façade can’t hold for the long term, and cracks between projection and reality set in.

In the early stage of the relationship, when their partners are still enthralled........

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