10 Signs of a Wife with Narcissistic Traits

Number 7: The wife prevents the husband from making friends, venting frustrations, or seeking support.

So specifically, on that venting frustrations piece, the prevention tactic here is that the wife starts complaining, right? So she counter-complains every time the husband complains, so that just shuts down the venting of frustrations.

Now, in terms of the friend component, if the husband does make a friend, that friend is labeled a loser by the wife. The friend has to go; she’s not going to tolerate that relationship. She might say something like, “What about that other friend you have, or you had at one time?” knowing the husband and another person she’s referring to are not in contact anymore for whatever reason. So she’s throwing out an alternative that doesn’t really work in an effort to say, “Look, go spend time with that friend instead of this friend.”

Really, this is just an isolation tactic, and if the husband tries to criticize one of the wife’s friends, then he’s being controlling. So we see a really clear double standard here.

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Number 8: Making the husband feel guilty for wanting to be intimate.

I see this all the time in couples where one of the members is narcissistic. So when the husband inquires about being intimate, the wife might say, “Not again! I can’t believe you want this again!” Really trying to lay a guilt trip on the husband for having a drive. She makes it seem like a chore or a burden, and this is beyond the simple sex drive differential that we see in a lot of relationships.

This is really something that’s designed to isolate the husband and contribute to a strong feeling of loneliness, like we see in several of these different behaviors. And, of course, in some instances, this increases the vulnerability to temptation for the husband and can lead to a whole other series of problems.

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