Sexting is another texting behavior of a narcissists. Now, there’s nothing wrong with sexting—but with a narcissist, their texting is all about sexting, especially quite early in the relationship, right after the initial contact. After that first contact, they send provocative images and expect you to send the same back without caring about how you feel or whether you want to do it or not.
They just want to jump right in and “undress” you through texting. That’s what’s going on, and that’s what they do. This is one of the ways they degrade you: you may participate in the sexting, you may share things—but later, when they start devaluing you, putting you down, and degrading you, you start to feel embarrassed. You feel a lot of shame. You start berating yourself for participating in early sexting—because you couldn’t see it for what it was.
But you need to know that it is one of their addictive behaviors. It preys on people for the same purpose. They often have these other people lined up, and they cycle through them—asking for nudes, asking for pictures, provocative images, and all of that. Once they get them, they use that person (and those pictures), then they forget about that person forever—or at least until they need it again and come back.
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