Aaron DoughtyAwareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, LLC · Spiritual Teacher and Educator

empaths and narcissists: the dance of self-discovery

22 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains why empaths are drawn to narcissists and how the relationship functions as a learning process. Empaths seek external validation, approval, and safety, often lacking a strong sense of self, which makes them eager to give themselves to others. Narcissists, despite their toxic behavior, possess a strong (though self‑centered) sense of self and manipulate those around them to meet their own needs. The speaker argues that empaths are attracted to narcissists in order to learn how to develop their own sense of self. Narcissists continuously test empaths, and the ultimate lesson may be that the empath must set a boundary and walk away.

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The thing that a narcissist does that attracts an empath is an empath wants to give themselves, wants to tune themselves, give themselves to then get the validation, the approval, and the safety of something on the external. Then on the other side of the spectrum, you have that of a narcissist who's on the toxic side of feeling in their self. What they do is they will manipulate everyone else around them to get their own needs met. And what happens is then they are actually in a strong sense of self, even though it's toxic. But the empath over here doesn't really even have a strong sense of self. So empaths attract narcissists to learn something from them, to learn how to be in their own sense of self. And the narcissist will constantly test the empath until they get the lesson. And sometimes the lesson is no more, I'm out.