All Of Them Narcissists

“Do you know what my ex told me the last time we spoke?” I was telling my friend. “He said: "You are the best woman I’ve ever had. You’re the only one who loved me the way you did. With you, I felt like a man. I felt like I could do anything. Losing your gaze was losing everything.”

“I was like, what the fuck, how about YOUR love for ME?”

“Pffff classic narcissist," my friend answered.

I took a sip of my coffee, in full agreement.
Little did she know that I have a lifetime of stories to tell about narcissists…

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CREATING THEM

I had fallen head over heels for him, just the way I so healthily do. He was my first true love.

He was a musician with a budding career, and I, because I was just a kid, had projected all of my dreams onto him, and had literally told him, “You do your music, I make the money."


We both had held up our ends of the deal. It was a happy life—for a second—where I was working, cooking, and cleaning for him, while he was playing some experimental music no-one wanted to listen t…