Treat me like a person!

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I didn’t realize that this is a big issue until I searched for picture to illustrate this article…

Almost a billion pages…

Your relationships… inside and outside… are they people, or are they cardboard cutouts?

Here is an idea most of you will be uncomfortable with:

People you have in your life are either there because

• 1. they have to. They are family, co-workers, who don’t really have a choice about it. They are employees to where you shop, live, work…
• 2. they want what you have or what you offer
• 3. they want YOU… and therefore what you offer

When I observe my students and my clients, they put most of their effort into pleasing, looking good for 1 and 2… and are suspicious of #3. ‘Why would anyone want me?’ And this is even true for people whose narcissistic tendency number is real high.

This morning I had an email exchange with a student of mine. His narcissistic…