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You may be very good at spotting red flags, but narcissists are very good at anticipating the fact that you’re looking for red flags, and covering them all up in the first few weeks or months of dating. Some of the biggest narcissists are also the greatest actors; they know how to feign empathy, generosity, patience and good humor. Narcissists genuinely believe that they know what is best for everybody, so they have no qualms about acting a certain way to trick you into being in their lives because they believe being in their lives is the greatest thing that could ever happen to somebody. So if you can’t count on spotting red flags in the behavior of a narcissist right away, perhaps you can count on something you have a much better view of; your own red flags. Here is how dating a narcissist changes your behavior.
