A real narcissist almost destroyed my life. She was a friend, met through a friend app (actual friend) that I introduced to a budding friend group. Everyone she dated she described as “crazy” and blamed everyone, even multiple therapists, as failing her. I caught her lying about mutual friends and it shattered her image. Immediate narcissistic break with fallout.
Said this one the other day, but my married advisor had an affair with me in college. Found out later she was horribly mean to every one of her other grad students, except me, and obviously I know why.
I’m facing a depressing reality and could use some insight to help me think through it. My partner and I have relocated a few times across the United States and as such we just don’t have friend groups at all. We’re finished relocating, but now we face a new issues in our mid thirties as we seek to build a new friend group. Most people have staunchly guarded friend groups, we’re outsiders at best and breaking into those as new friends is tough. Trying to build new friend groups is also very t...
Trying to build new friend groups is also very tough as I recently made an extreme amount of wealth in a startup I created — potential friends seem to treat us as differently without hardship (this is largely true now, but we do come from poor families originally). What’s worse, people that do have similar circumstances to us now are just horrible people to us and typically don’t align with our political beliefs. This entire thing is incredibly depressing, it feels as though I can’t even me...