Why do narcissists avoid talking about the real issues?
They do not have time for you. You bore them to death.They never ever cared for you. This is why you get totally ignored all the time. Because they have no problems that you are entitled to know about. Just ask them. They will give you the silent treatment as a punishment. How dare you question what they do or say.
They are entitled.
Just because….If you ask them they will just give you a word salad or totally ignore you all together. Gaslight you with more lies. You will never ever get your question answered. They love to play these games. The narcissist may even pull up something that happened last year now you are defending something that you never did last year by the time you leave you never even got your problem or questioned answered.
It’s totally exhausting to be around a narcissist. Don’t try to figure why they do what they do. Just RUN and don’t look back. You're in a manipulationship not a relationship.
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Imagine that you are dealing with a two-year-old who is having a tantrum. You wouldn't try to reason with the child because you know the child does not understand. The child only knows want and need, and in the mind of a child, these things are one and the same.
They throw tantrums and scream because as toddlers, they have no other skills or tools to use to get needs met. They only have overwhelming emotion because their needs are not being met, and they scream because they cannot meet these needs themselves.
This is the same way the narcissistic adult reacts. They don't all scream or throw tantrums, but the process is still the same: they cannot meet their needs themselves, so they endeavor to create ways to force others to do it for them. They may try manipulation.
If that doesn't work, guilt. If guilt does not work, they may throw a tantrum. If a tantrum doesn't work, they might try threats. If they have to, they might resort to violence. They will keep cycling through this behavior until their needs are met because they cannot take care of it themselves.
A narcissist with no one to meet their needs is like a baby left in the woods alone: helpless. And they know it. This is why they engage in so many of the behaviors that they do, from smear campaigns to gaslighting. They need to make sure the target will continue to take care of them.
They only feel confident of this when they have broken the victim down completely. A narcissist who has asserted dominance over a victim is in control. A narcissist in control is a narcissist that feels safe. When they no longer feel safe, that is when we see abuse in all its forms. There is no real cause for it that can be pinpointed; something in the narcissist's mind has made them feel insecure and so in order to counteract that feeling, they need to assert dominance - preferably over an easy target.
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With my family this was one of the biggest issues I had before I had learned what it was I was dealing with.
it is typical narcissist, they can not and will not take any accountability for the crap they do, if trying to address it when it happens you get shut down and shut up.
it’s still there and in time when you bring it up again it becomes the good old “the past is the past” but every little thing they can hold over your head about any little thing you have ever done is brought up and thrown back at ya, so it only applies to their crap and they all do it!
They can’t stand to hear anything they have done wrong!
the past is the past is just to get you off topic of their crap!
It’s maddening!!!