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A Narcissist Is Using Your VIRTUE to Trap You If They’re Doing This 1 Weird Emotional HACK

This Is the Disturbing Trap a Narcissist Has Set If They Are Blowing Hot & Cold

Honor Payne
3 min readFeb 13, 2025
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A nice narcissist is a dangerous narcissist because none of their pleasant behaviour is real.

So, if you’re seeing them being nice for a change, they’re usually up to something.

What they’re doing isn’t too complicated, but if you’re not careful it can tie your mind in emotional knots trying to figure out what’s happening.

That’s because when they’re nice, they are slipping on the handcuffs of hope.

They want you to hope that they’ve changed, hope that they’re different, they have seen the error of their ways and are turning over a new leaf.

But they’re not, it’s all a trick because as long as you hope that they are different they can exploit that to continue the toxicity.

You can beat a narcissist at their game by recognising what their next move is going to be, and adjusting to it appropriately.

If you are indifferent to their niceness, suddenly they are on the backfoot because now they realise that they aren’t going to get you like…

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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