Narcissistic men have higher levels of stress hormone

[MuseRider]

90. He sounds much like my alcoholic brother.

Impossible, they know everything even when they can't stand up straight. They control the universe. My brother is a long long time bad alcoholic. I thought he was dead for 12 years. No PI I hired when our brother died could find him. He can't stay employed, causes fights everywhere he goes, yells at everyone because....and he told me this, he is the best person and the smartest person he knows and everyone else including me and my kids are dog shit.

I don't think he is narcissistic but he has pickled his brain so badly that he acts much like one. He has left again, I will probably never know when he does die but it can't be long. I do hope he can find some rest before it happens but like the narcissist he simply refuses to fill his life himself.

About what I said, I was told that one day while I was weeping uncontrollably. I was not weeping for anything that had happened at that point, in fact I did not know the half of it yet, but weeping for the fact that I totally lost any ability to respect myself or trust my judgment. I am not a dummy but since then I have a hard time trusting anything I decide on. The comment was something to the effect that a person who marries trusts the person they marry to be their partner, not to use them as cover or breeding or to make their own life easier so they can go about being someone else entirely. If you had no clue then you did the thing that all humans do, you trust those who make you think they love you and have your best interests at heart.

I really hate talking about this but it felt kind of good to share with others who have been in the position. That comment hopefully will find it's way to someone else in that position and help them too because there is truly nothing worse than losing yourself because someone else stole who you were.