5 Weird Texting Habits Of Narcissists

A narcissist has to stay in control of the situation and keep getting supply from you at all times possible, especially when you are not in their physical presence. They have to influence you to keep you under their thumb.

And one of the easiest ways and the best ways to do so is via texting. When they can't control you directly, they control you through their weird texting habits. And that is what we are going to talk about in this episode.

chapters
00:00 introduction
00:48 Texting Non-Stop and Demanding Constant Attention
02:45 Making You feel ignored by not responding
04:10 Exploitative Sexting
05:36 Rare Heart Felt Conversations
07:08 They Leave You Hanging

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[narcabusecoach]

What weird texting habit did you experience with the narcissist?

[sonoranoasis]

I think one of the BIGGEST telltale signs of a narcissist is that they will ignore your texts but if you don't respond to their texts there is hell to pay. It's all about control.

[mlou]

In my experience, Narcs HATE texting. They have an advantage in phone calls and in conversation where they can Word Salad and gaslight. Texting leaves a record of accountability.

[etoppsportcards]

Best way to deal with a narcissist is to not deal with them.

[alicelivesfree]

“They make you feel ignored and this ignorance is what kills your self-worth” yes yes yes.

[daringgreatly]

The narcissists I know do not text. There is always some weird reason they didn’t get your text. They are always on their phone and online but they won’t respond. As you stated, they make you feel ignored.

[Jessicaisfreee]

Dating feels like walking through a narc minefield, I’ve learned I can’t trust anything someone says or does the first 1-3 months.

[simes_]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but one thing I experience with texting a narcissist is they monitor your whereabouts, and always worrying about what you're doing.

[PatriciaKanavy]

My experience was lots of texting and talking on the phone, lots of laughs, very flirtatious, asking to see me... but once we were in person, he would ignore me, walk ahead of me, talk to other people, would not sit next me, acted like he didn’t know me. It was BIZARRE.

[returntosender]

They text you, leaving you feeling a sense of emergency to respond no matter what you are doing and when you text them they don't respond. It's a crazy circus act. You have to respond to them asap, but they take all the time in the world to respond if they even decide to.

[AJG]

The narcissist will never ask about You, they are happy to talk about themselves . The initial msg might ask how you are doing but once into the convo they keep talking about themselves only.

[jussdoughjustin]

it's just amazing to me how a stranger on YouTube is more aware of what happened in the last 2 years of my life than I was.

[drebaselius]

"They make you feel ignored."
Then gaslight by saying you do it to them. Diabolical!

[sharonbrennan]

If you don't reply to a narc when they expect, they assume you are a liar..They can't have a mature conversation without drama.Block them it's that simple 👍

[alexas.]

The rare heartfelt conversation one is so spot-on. For not only texting but also in person. The quickest way to spot a narc is to have one of these discussions, watch the narc emphatically agree with your feelings and promise to honor your triggers and/or not do the same upsetting behaviors, and then slowly or even immediately afterwards they intentionally hurt you. I had an incident where I shared a trigger I had never told my n-ex and they actually used it against me. My vulnerability became their weapon.

Be very careful about how much you open up to someone in the beginning of a romantic relationship.

[nichellenunya]

1) They will text you whenever they want. Disregarding boundaries . 2) Constantly texting other people while they’re with you 3) Sexting maybe quite early in the relationship 4) connected conversation that never happens until they want something 5) they leave you hanging

[assilemisawesome]

You are spot on! The best way to not have to deal with a narcissist's "garbage" is to never text or talk to them again.

[marilynnorth]

You open your heart up to them through your text seeking emotional connection, you wait for a response and finally they send it, one single emojee.

[elizabethschrier]

Narcissists in my personal opinion are diabolical and sadistic. At least the narcissist I was married to is diabolical and very sadistic. I was starting to really think I was crazy. He showed me exactly what love isn't. He was cheating on me with his 1st ex-wife. He always tried to isolate me even from my family. My self-esteem was shot when I left him. I'm still recovering from narcissistic abuse. I thank God every day that I'm out of that abusive marriage from hell

[jaketheman]

What I've learned is that their devaluation doesn't necessarily mean outright ridicule or putting you down, rather, it means once they "have" you, you are no longer a sufficient means of stimulation for them, and so their "effort" toward you stops, but also, you slowly begin to realize that they've taken you for granted all this time, regardless whether or not you felt your feelings were reciprocated. The biggest takeaway is that they're not honest with you in the same way they aren't with themselves. They let you down in more ways than one and leave you clinging to hope, all the while they still expect you to be in their lives, completely unfazed by how they treat you.