Do narcissists play fair?
Narcissists want to win at all costs, so don't expect them to play fair. Narcissists make rules, break rules, change rules, and change goalposts according to their needs and requirements. The main goal of narcissists is to prove themselves right; it doesn't matter how they hurt or destroy you because for them, winning matters the most.
When narcissists are losing or you are having the upper hand in the situation, they will start blaming, gaslighting, deceiving, crying, and fooling. Narcissists will even bring your past mistakes into the situation to defend themselves.
Narcissists will create fake stories, lie, cheat, manipulate, and deceive to put you down to prove their point. Narcissists can act in a passive, aggressive way to punish you. Narcissists will give you silent treatment to punish you for a long time.
The main agenda of a narcissist is to break you down until you don't accept the defeat. Narcissists don't have logic or understanding; they completely operate on ego. For narcissists, winning and reputation are more important than any relationships.
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As far as they are concerned, they play fair.
Narcissists are unable to process the fact that other people have needs, opinions, desires, ambitions, that are different to and independent of their own.
Because narcissists are so lacking in compassionate empathy and the ability to recognize that others matter and have their own needs, narcissists feels they are being fair to the only one that should be treated fairly — themselves.
They are the center of the universe, and expect people to come into their gravitational pull, their orbit. They have this deep embedded feeling that people were born to serve them. And be served, they must.
Anything less than full submission, is falling short of their god-deserved right.
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Their concept of fair denies the fact that they always get the lion's share. If you get an unaffordable gift, they have a motive. I made the living. His money was made for his own hobbies or pleasures. When he finally got a 6 figure job, he starting beating me up.
He was upset to share HIS money. I wasn’t good enough anymore. Had several groomed replacements as he always did. After 44 years we divorced, he remarried and my daughter died. I fell into darkness and was homeless 3 or so times.
Every single person in my family had been groomed over years to believe horrible things about me. I knew they treated me differently but didn’t know why. The truth is that nobody gets away with the malevolent things they have done in this world. There is a long line of those people in my case. The one thing they all share is the belief that money makes everything perfectly acceptable.