Empaths drawn to narcissists because they seek validation through giving, while narcissists project toxic confidence and know how to manipulate. The relationship forces empaths to build boundaries and a stronger sense of self, or it breaks.
So the funny thing sometimes about this people pleaser, nice guy kind of empathic thing is that sometimes they attract narcissists. There's actually something to learn from narcissism, by the way. 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, which can be hard sometimes as an empath.
