Number 1: They get bored easily.
This one’s really common, and you can see how the disorder drives the habit. So, they get bored easily, and not just with their partners. They don’t always like to sit around and do nothing, and they like to get shiny new things. But they get bored with them very quickly. So, they might get obsessed about getting a new phone or a new car, and the first week they have it, maybe even the first couple of days, they’re obsessed with it, and it’s the best thing in the world. And then, before too long, they’re looking at getting the next thing. They stop taking care of the old thing because there’s the next, and it makes complete sense because that’s how they treat people too.
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Number 2: They don’t have a sense of humor.
This could present in a couple of different ways. So, the covert narcissist is much more likely to be socially awkward than the overt narcissist. So, they could just be socially awkward, and maybe they don’t get jokes, or maybe their sense of humor is really just lacking. And so, you’ll find that across the board, when they’re out with other people or when they’re with you, they kind of just don’t get the joke. And other covert narcissists, I guess the ones that are a little bit more social, will seem to get the joke with friends, and they’ll laugh when a friend tells a joke. But you could tell the same joke, and you will get a stone-faced reply. But what’s interesting about that is that if you think about yourself, what’s funny is funny, but it kind of gives you an indication that the covert narcissists might be faking their sense of humor with their friends.
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Number 3: The covert narcissist is likely to be a very private person.
So they will keep things from you, and I’m sure that you’ve uncovered that already. They will also keep friends and family at a safe distance, and it kind of makes sense because the covert narcissist is a little bit more insecure, outwardly insecure than the overt narcissist, and most of them really can’t handle having their friends and family take a front-row seat to the abuse that’s going on behind the scenes, so they’ll keep them at a distance. Now, some of them also have parents who don’t dote on them when they are together, but again, it’s common for that covert narcissist to keep the friends and family, even that doting parent, at arm’s length, still in their lives but just not close enough so that they could be abused or see the abuse that’s going on.
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