no more engagement?
Recently I decided to change how I interact with my partner. I realised that when I talk about my feelings or problems I'm being dismissed and not really understood. On top of that often my honesty was later used against me in some pointless argument. So I decided to stop explaining myself, to stop defending myself and generally to stop volunteering any information about me. Trying to defend or explain myself usually lead to an argument anyway because "I was making excuses" and "I'm full of bullshit" or "I'm a liar" etc. Fair enough, I get that my way of thinking is so different that maybe my partner cannot understand it no matter how much I try to explain it. Anyway, coincidentally, a video popped up in my YouTube feed about narcissism. The clickbait title made me click and watch it and what blew my mind was that the advice of Dr. Ramani. She said that when interacting with narcissists, you should do exactly what I decided to do - "do no...