6. Demanding loyalty or at least subordination.
Another tactic that they use is they will demand your loyalty, and if they can’t get their loyalty, then they’ll demand your subordination. You have to be beneath them. Don’t you forget it. And they have many ways that they can convey that.
For More: 10 Weird Mannerisms of People Abused By Narcissists.
7. Separating you from your support system.
Another of their tactics to break you is that they’ll try to separate you from your support system. You may have friends or family members or co-workers that really enjoy you and you enjoy them. It’s like you don’t need to be around them, or they may sabotage you with the smear campaign. Another — and this is even more insidious — is sometimes they’ll take the people that matter most to you, like your own children or grandchildren, and they’ll try to turn them against you. Often in a sanctimonious kind of way, “Well, I’m the best person here in this family,” and they’re going to let the kids know that they’re the best and you’re awful. And so it’s called parental or grandparenting alienation. It’s one of the most selfish things that a person can do, and people agonize when they’re on the receiving end of that.
Recommended Book: Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself- By Shahida Arabi.
In addition, another of their tactics is they can be irresponsible in their use of money. Sometimes they’re tightly controlling, sometimes they’re very wasteful, but basically, they tend to have double standards with respect to money, and you’re not going to come out on the good end of that.
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