4 Types, 16 Characteristics, and 20 Traits of Narcissists

How to Distinguish Between Them

There are way too many stories on medium.com about narcissism. However, to some it may be novel. Anyone really can fall in. Perhaps you’ve just started a new relationship, and are just wondering why he/she does this or that. My experience started on a gay hookup site. I will call my narcissist “N”. Things escalated quickly, and after realizing he did not have a home — he would just stay at other people’s apartments on a day-to-day basis — I invited him to gather up his belongings at these various places and consolidate at my home, where he was welcome to stay indefinitely. I knew from the get-go that this would be an atypical relationship, but the drama that might be inherent seemed exciting. After all, I had just retired, and any kind of action sounded intriguing. As well, the sex was mind-blowing.

Early on, N began discussing the differences between narcissists and empaths, which were new concepts to me. I knew, roughly, what a narcissist was, but not so much with empaths. He insisted he was an empath. One evening while scrolling through Facebook, I came across one of those games where if you answer a series of questions, it tells you what kind of person you are. In this case, the more circles that you saw in the graphic, the more empathic you were. The most you could come up with was…