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		By: binance Anmeldebonus		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your article helped me a lot, is there any more related content? Thanks!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your article helped me a lot, is there any more related content? Thanks!</p>
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		By: Healthy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Healthy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And what’s with all their testing others, to find out what?? The truth, understanding, to love you or help you, with your consent of course...no. They are jealous to the core and rely on confirmation bias to convince that anything good or healthy or positive in your life must just be a fake, front or fraud.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And what’s with all their testing others, to find out what?? The truth, understanding, to love you or help you, with your consent of course&#8230;no. They are jealous to the core and rely on confirmation bias to convince that anything good or healthy or positive in your life must just be a fake, front or fraud.</p>
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		By: Molly Hyatt		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Molly Hyatt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am in a difficult situation. My son, my only child, was to narcissist. I divorced him in 1983 when our son was 3. He died June 2019 of pulmonary embolism two days after a minor back surgery. I let his father know the day he died. All he said to me was &quot;so, what do you want me to do&quot; very sarcastically. I hung up. Not him or any of his family sent condolences or asked if I had enough money to pay for the funeral. Which was on with me because my son had no contact with his father in 25 years and no contact with any other family members in 35 years. The state of Pennsylvania required both parents to sign off on the estate. His father won&#039;t because he was not mentioned in the obituary. My attorney is telling me to do another obit. I say no. His father could have placed his own obit when my son died in 2019. He is just trying to take control again. Help]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am in a difficult situation. My son, my only child, was to narcissist. I divorced him in 1983 when our son was 3. He died June 2019 of pulmonary embolism two days after a minor back surgery. I let his father know the day he died. All he said to me was &#8220;so, what do you want me to do&#8221; very sarcastically. I hung up. Not him or any of his family sent condolences or asked if I had enough money to pay for the funeral. Which was on with me because my son had no contact with his father in 25 years and no contact with any other family members in 35 years. The state of Pennsylvania required both parents to sign off on the estate. His father won&#8217;t because he was not mentioned in the obituary. My attorney is telling me to do another obit. I say no. His father could have placed his own obit when my son died in 2019. He is just trying to take control again. Help</p>
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		By: O D		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243534&quot;&gt;Melanie Tonia Evans&lt;/a&gt;.

How come all your pictures are showing only male narcs? Theres a lot of female narcs as well. Some equality would be appreciated]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243534">Melanie Tonia Evans</a>.</p>
<p>How come all your pictures are showing only male narcs? Theres a lot of female narcs as well. Some equality would be appreciated</p>
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		By: Michelle		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Melanie,
First I would like to reply to FOOD FOR THOUGHT.  Have you got the wrong basket? Have you delved into an area that is not at all what Melanie along with many others have been through and coming out at the other end?
Sorry if I misinterpret what you have stated, you have obviously put in a great deal of effort.
So Melanie, 
Hiding behind their facade.
I have read your book, believe I am past quiet a few stages of recovery but have a two major concerns on my list now. One being with the legal process, up is the facade....he produces misleading documents but non disclosure of essential documents, such financial information.  I lost total control of finances and on legal advice withdrew a meagre sum to survive on for the legal process and my entire life from one of the several joint accounts.
Like yourself I left frail, following two falls in a house I was coerced into signing for, my health deteriorated to the point he even had me diagnosed with Dementia.  I have had to spend much on many very involved, long tests to overcome this misdiagnosis.
Many other things occurred as others have stated, much more than I outline below,
He controlled all finances, in fact he is a financial broker!!!  Hence my expenditure was only with access to his Credit Card, watching what I spent.
Although I had a mobile phone in my possession, he paid for the number under a business entity I was not even aware of, thus he could trace my calls.
With the misdiagnosis he stored my car away from the house I was isolated in, and assisted in the expiry of my driver&#039;s licence which I again had to regain at another major cost.
I left 15months ago after 33years of marriage, the last 14 of which was overt abuse.
I am facing financial hardship if the legal process does not progress.  I am not able to gain any government financial assistance as &#039;I own too much&#039;.  My name is on the house/business/trusts and you name it.
I do not know how to break that facade through the legal system.
After all, He is the charming, Mr nice guy to all he meets.
The second concern is my daughters. I have two adult girls, age 21 and 25 who have been instilled with the narcissistic Mr nice guy.  I am the problem!  Although I have sent Christmas gifts, Birthday gifts, cards etc they have made no contact with me.
Should I just leave the contact and wait for them to come forward?

Thankyou
I think just writing I know although it is a slow road it will work out in the end.  My worry here is another issue, where I don&#039;t have an infinite time.  Again he has the upper hand as he knows, and the truth is if I suffered from COVID I would not survive.
Even if I am lucky not to suffer COVID, with my medical conditions I would be lucky if I live another 10-15years.
Positive but scared at times.
Michelle]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Melanie,<br />
First I would like to reply to FOOD FOR THOUGHT.  Have you got the wrong basket? Have you delved into an area that is not at all what Melanie along with many others have been through and coming out at the other end?<br />
Sorry if I misinterpret what you have stated, you have obviously put in a great deal of effort.<br />
So Melanie,<br />
Hiding behind their facade.<br />
I have read your book, believe I am past quiet a few stages of recovery but have a two major concerns on my list now. One being with the legal process, up is the facade&#8230;.he produces misleading documents but non disclosure of essential documents, such financial information.  I lost total control of finances and on legal advice withdrew a meagre sum to survive on for the legal process and my entire life from one of the several joint accounts.<br />
Like yourself I left frail, following two falls in a house I was coerced into signing for, my health deteriorated to the point he even had me diagnosed with Dementia.  I have had to spend much on many very involved, long tests to overcome this misdiagnosis.<br />
Many other things occurred as others have stated, much more than I outline below,<br />
He controlled all finances, in fact he is a financial broker!!!  Hence my expenditure was only with access to his Credit Card, watching what I spent.<br />
Although I had a mobile phone in my possession, he paid for the number under a business entity I was not even aware of, thus he could trace my calls.<br />
With the misdiagnosis he stored my car away from the house I was isolated in, and assisted in the expiry of my driver&#8217;s licence which I again had to regain at another major cost.<br />
I left 15months ago after 33years of marriage, the last 14 of which was overt abuse.<br />
I am facing financial hardship if the legal process does not progress.  I am not able to gain any government financial assistance as &#8216;I own too much&#8217;.  My name is on the house/business/trusts and you name it.<br />
I do not know how to break that facade through the legal system.<br />
After all, He is the charming, Mr nice guy to all he meets.<br />
The second concern is my daughters. I have two adult girls, age 21 and 25 who have been instilled with the narcissistic Mr nice guy.  I am the problem!  Although I have sent Christmas gifts, Birthday gifts, cards etc they have made no contact with me.<br />
Should I just leave the contact and wait for them to come forward?</p>
<p>Thankyou<br />
I think just writing I know although it is a slow road it will work out in the end.  My worry here is another issue, where I don&#8217;t have an infinite time.  Again he has the upper hand as he knows, and the truth is if I suffered from COVID I would not survive.<br />
Even if I am lucky not to suffer COVID, with my medical conditions I would be lucky if I live another 10-15years.<br />
Positive but scared at times.<br />
Michelle</p>
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		By: Food for thought		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Melanie,

I do have a question, if you could maybe give some guidance: 

What if nothing happened actuallyin my situation?  

What I mean is that nothing really did happen! I&#039;ve never gotten to the stage where anything bad actually happened to me with any of the narcs I could&#039;ve met because I guess they just displayed some very mild signs?... there were indeed some signs I could&#039;ve gotten, but what if this was ONLY to teach me (in a very benevolent and good way!) and help me see the parts in me I picked up throughout life in society/family education entrenched in FALSE beliefs etc, about beauty and love, and interconnections and relationships with people etc.
Isn&#039;t life about that?

What if ?

So this would mean that &quot;being an empath&quot; is not actually what we think it is... I mean yes, it means that I can easily identify with patterns in situations and people (see through them and GET IT), but this DOESN&#039;T NECESSARILY MEAN that they mean any harm to me?

There&#039;s 2 ways to go about it :

1. Either I go the negative way, I pick up/sense things about people, then I radically dissociate from them... until fully isolating myself from THE WORLD because everyone is displaying some narcissitic traits, even very mild ones like thinking that we have to be &quot;THE best&quot;, a very innocent thought that is instilled in ALL of us, instead of being &quot;YOURSELF FULLY&quot; (cf book &quot;Wetiko: Breaking the curse from evil&quot;).

Or 2. I go the uplifting empowering way, where I realise that oh yeah I might&#039;ve picked this thing/vibe from that person, I&#039;ll just TRY to &quot;tend my own garden/stay on my lane&quot; and not get too much preoccupied with them. I&#039;ll just focus on myself and attracting the people who are on the same &quot;level&quot;/true vibe as me etc.


So yeah, maybe I did sense things and I do (this is the gift), but maybe they don&#039;t mean what they mean.... Maybe being an empath is changing your own world. There&#039;s no one outside of you that you change, just yourself and perception ? if you get what I mean.


If you could give me some pointers, thoughts on that, that would be greatly appreciated!

If I&#039;m telling you this it&#039;s because I&#039;ve also noticed that I can easily make false assumptions...
I wrote about a professor that I thought was a potential narc (and this assumption was only based on the fact that he took some time to reply and that he writes in a very careless manner, with many typos in his emails, so to me that seemed odd for a professor! So then I ASSUMED that he was probably a narc). I proceeded to still follow through with the work shadowing experience - and it was the most blissful experience. It taught me a lot! The environment was not hostile AT ALL (on the contrary, it responded to my vibration I felt). He was very kind, caring (even offering lunch, he was ready to pay for me I believe!). I&#039;m still very grateful for the kindness of the environment... 

IT WAS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT AT ALL.

And many times I&#039;ve told myself this actually, &quot;It&#039;s not what you think&quot;.

The thing with me is that I never get to the &quot;actual experience&quot; of a thing. 

So, what if... what IF... what IF... it was also about me shedding ALL OF THE FALSE BELIEFS, THINKING PATTERNS/FALSE ASSOCIATIONS and &quot;giving things a real try&quot; ? 

The thing is that people give me so much love. So much love. 

I&#039;m starting to think that maybe - for me - this discovery experience of narcissim/the ego/wetiko virus in society was also about me learning first and foremost to look after MYSELF, and DETACH from wanting anything from the outside.

I don&#039;t know what your thoughts are ? Maybe you can be of help ?

That&#039;s a very interesting &quot;turn of things&quot;...

Thank you very much for your work!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Melanie,</p>
<p>I do have a question, if you could maybe give some guidance: </p>
<p>What if nothing happened actuallyin my situation?  </p>
<p>What I mean is that nothing really did happen! I&#8217;ve never gotten to the stage where anything bad actually happened to me with any of the narcs I could&#8217;ve met because I guess they just displayed some very mild signs?&#8230; there were indeed some signs I could&#8217;ve gotten, but what if this was ONLY to teach me (in a very benevolent and good way!) and help me see the parts in me I picked up throughout life in society/family education entrenched in FALSE beliefs etc, about beauty and love, and interconnections and relationships with people etc.<br />
Isn&#8217;t life about that?</p>
<p>What if ?</p>
<p>So this would mean that &#8220;being an empath&#8221; is not actually what we think it is&#8230; I mean yes, it means that I can easily identify with patterns in situations and people (see through them and GET IT), but this DOESN&#8217;T NECESSARILY MEAN that they mean any harm to me?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s 2 ways to go about it :</p>
<p>1. Either I go the negative way, I pick up/sense things about people, then I radically dissociate from them&#8230; until fully isolating myself from THE WORLD because everyone is displaying some narcissitic traits, even very mild ones like thinking that we have to be &#8220;THE best&#8221;, a very innocent thought that is instilled in ALL of us, instead of being &#8220;YOURSELF FULLY&#8221; (cf book &#8220;Wetiko: Breaking the curse from evil&#8221;).</p>
<p>Or 2. I go the uplifting empowering way, where I realise that oh yeah I might&#8217;ve picked this thing/vibe from that person, I&#8217;ll just TRY to &#8220;tend my own garden/stay on my lane&#8221; and not get too much preoccupied with them. I&#8217;ll just focus on myself and attracting the people who are on the same &#8220;level&#8221;/true vibe as me etc.</p>
<p>So yeah, maybe I did sense things and I do (this is the gift), but maybe they don&#8217;t mean what they mean&#8230;. Maybe being an empath is changing your own world. There&#8217;s no one outside of you that you change, just yourself and perception ? if you get what I mean.</p>
<p>If you could give me some pointers, thoughts on that, that would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m telling you this it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve also noticed that I can easily make false assumptions&#8230;<br />
I wrote about a professor that I thought was a potential narc (and this assumption was only based on the fact that he took some time to reply and that he writes in a very careless manner, with many typos in his emails, so to me that seemed odd for a professor! So then I ASSUMED that he was probably a narc). I proceeded to still follow through with the work shadowing experience &#8211; and it was the most blissful experience. It taught me a lot! The environment was not hostile AT ALL (on the contrary, it responded to my vibration I felt). He was very kind, caring (even offering lunch, he was ready to pay for me I believe!). I&#8217;m still very grateful for the kindness of the environment&#8230; </p>
<p>IT WAS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT AT ALL.</p>
<p>And many times I&#8217;ve told myself this actually, &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you think&#8221;.</p>
<p>The thing with me is that I never get to the &#8220;actual experience&#8221; of a thing. </p>
<p>So, what if&#8230; what IF&#8230; what IF&#8230; it was also about me shedding ALL OF THE FALSE BELIEFS, THINKING PATTERNS/FALSE ASSOCIATIONS and &#8220;giving things a real try&#8221; ? </p>
<p>The thing is that people give me so much love. So much love. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m starting to think that maybe &#8211; for me &#8211; this discovery experience of narcissim/the ego/wetiko virus in society was also about me learning first and foremost to look after MYSELF, and DETACH from wanting anything from the outside.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what your thoughts are ? Maybe you can be of help ?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a very interesting &#8220;turn of things&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your work!</p>
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		By: Marty Smith		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243487&quot;&gt;Kerry Kramer&lt;/a&gt;.

This is all great reading on narcissists. I have been drained beyond belief from 2 older sisters and one of their husbands. All 3 were employing everything I&#039;ve read on here so far. Employing tactics to feed their ego off of me. it continued until I became one with myself. No they can&#039;t even go near me. I am the truth of myself and stand alone there. Once I became whole and loved myself within, they had no choice but to leave me alone. I walked and stood in the truth eventhough I had to do that part alone. I did do it and now they can&#039;t bother me. I am one with myself now and they need to look elsewhere for their supply. I hope they don&#039;t do anything to anyone else tho. Not like what they were doing to me. They have no more power over me. I took my power back. I now am the captain of my ship.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243487">Kerry Kramer</a>.</p>
<p>This is all great reading on narcissists. I have been drained beyond belief from 2 older sisters and one of their husbands. All 3 were employing everything I&#8217;ve read on here so far. Employing tactics to feed their ego off of me. it continued until I became one with myself. No they can&#8217;t even go near me. I am the truth of myself and stand alone there. Once I became whole and loved myself within, they had no choice but to leave me alone. I walked and stood in the truth eventhough I had to do that part alone. I did do it and now they can&#8217;t bother me. I am one with myself now and they need to look elsewhere for their supply. I hope they don&#8217;t do anything to anyone else tho. Not like what they were doing to me. They have no more power over me. I took my power back. I now am the captain of my ship.</p>
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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243846&quot;&gt;V&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi V,

you are very welcome.

Are you are Gold NARP Member? If you are please come into the NARP Member&#039;s Forum www.melanietoniaevans.com/member we can help guide and support you to get the breakthroughs with your NARP work.

It will make a world of difference.

Sending you love and strength

Mel 🙏💕💚]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243846">V</a>.</p>
<p>Hi V,</p>
<p>you are very welcome.</p>
<p>Are you are Gold NARP Member? If you are please come into the NARP Member&#8217;s Forum <a href="http://www.melanietoniaevans.com/member" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.melanietoniaevans.com/member</a> we can help guide and support you to get the breakthroughs with your NARP work.</p>
<p>It will make a world of difference.</p>
<p>Sending you love and strength</p>
<p>Mel 🙏💕💚</p>
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		By: Coral Dunn		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coral Dunn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243490&quot;&gt;Jeannine Cotogno&lt;/a&gt;.

Thankyou so much , I know what I need ti do but I am continually weak and dont maintain boundaries . Married for 41 yrs and have 4 sons , 9 grandchildren . He cheated and left 3 yrs ago , however 2 mths ago he moved back in just as a flatmate . He goes to prostitutes and is continally on his phone sexting etc etc ., he is being scammed with stolen pics and requests for money but he does nt care as long as he gets nude pics and told how much they love him . I feel physically sick about this but if I say anything he yells and shuts me down . I have let him stay because I hate living alone . Mel I would love your advice .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-a-narcissist-hides-their-true-identity/#comment-1243490">Jeannine Cotogno</a>.</p>
<p>Thankyou so much , I know what I need ti do but I am continually weak and dont maintain boundaries . Married for 41 yrs and have 4 sons , 9 grandchildren . He cheated and left 3 yrs ago , however 2 mths ago he moved back in just as a flatmate . He goes to prostitutes and is continally on his phone sexting etc etc ., he is being scammed with stolen pics and requests for money but he does nt care as long as he gets nude pics and told how much they love him . I feel physically sick about this but if I say anything he yells and shuts me down . I have let him stay because I hate living alone . Mel I would love your advice .</p>
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