The Covert Narcissist

Your partner is such a lovely person. The message arrives the morning after a silence that lasted until you fell asleep, and you stare at the words longer than you should, because you might even agree.

You searched for descriptions of narcissism and found someone loud, boastful, impossible to miss. That is not what happens in your house. There, it is a hand removed from your back the instant the camera lowers, a coldness that lasts for days and gets blamed on you for asking about it. Quiet does not mean harmless. It means almost no one else can see it, which is exactly what makes it so hard to name.

This book explains covert narcissism specifically, the victim-playing, the silent punishment, the martyrdom, so you can trust what you have been sensing even when it looks like nothing to everyone else.

The Covert Narcissist is Book Seven in The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Series, for the abuse that never raises its voice.

For readers who have been told how lucky they are, and know better.