Author Topic: Old NBoyfriend  (Read 1848 times)

Magnolia

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Old NBoyfriend
« on: July 17, 2006, 01:59:34 AM »
Sometimes it takes years to fully wake up to someone's true character.  I really wished I understood about the concept of N in my 20s. 

I dated this guy in my mid-twenties and I thought he hung the moon because he treated me so well compared to my parents. Also those he worked with seemed to love him too.  After being with him a year and half, I found out he was still legally married, even though he was living with me and told me otherwise.
This guy would fall into the category of the 'charmer'.  I was 19 years his junior when we were together.  I was completely devastated when I found out about his lie and I always had a hard time wrapping my head around this guy's character.  He seemed so kind in every other way...

Over the years, I maintained some contact with him, primarily due to my need to find out more about who he really was.  I pretended to be friends with him.  This man can only date women much younger than himself.He needs to feel superior and idealized.  He does not truly care about the women he dates.  He is in the movie biz, so there is always a fresh supply of naive women for him to impress with his name dropping.

This man is pretty impressive on his own, but he exaggerates everything he does.  I recently found his wikipedia bio and that just did it for me.

He claims to be a widow, yet he was divorced by the time his ex-wife died.  He had lived with 2 other woman as well, myself being one of them.
He claims that he is starting a new studio and that they had purchased land.  He was an interloper with some others guys that had an option on some land, but they never had the funds to purchase. 

He claims that he 'invented' the peanut sheller, yet the only thing he did was copy someone else's plans formBulgaria, now he is taking credit.
And the lies just go on and on.

He is 59 living with a 25 year old.  I wrote her and warned her, but I think she is so taken with him, she will learn the hard way.  She refers to herself as a personality', so it appears she is a N as well. 

These people amaze me!

Here is his wikipedi entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Brandis

He is a different case because he is a old hippy that is not materialistic, so it is easy to think he is a well meaning person.

It makes me wonder how many good deeds are done just because a N wants Nsupply.

These people are soul robbers.  He gained my trust and crushed my world.  Like he said to me the night I found out about his big lie, "He was so selfish."

Healing&Hopeful

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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2006, 04:02:21 AM »
Hi Magnolia

Wow.... did you date my dad?  Only joking but the similarities are quite something.  When he was 37 he was dating a 15 year old.... but he told me it was ok because he didn't have sex with her until she was 16.

Well done to get out and discover the lies....

"It makes me wonder how many good deeds are done just because a N wants Nsupply."  I bet there are a few... like love with them, it's conditional love so I'm assuming that quite a few would do good deeds to get supply.  This is another way where it explains my bio dad.  He will do things for others, like mechanical things, help someone with their boat, however he will expect them to buy him lunch, or take him out for the day and is well miffed when they don't.

Take care

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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2006, 09:44:12 AM »
Sorry fo rthe mistakes in this posting. It was late at night.  How can you edit your postings on this board?

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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2006, 10:08:58 AM »
Can you see the "quote" "modify" and "delete" buttons at the top on your post... if you click on Modify you will be able to edit it.

Hope this helps.

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To make you smilie while ur feeling blue
To make u happy if you're sad
To let u know, life ain't so bad
Now I've given a hug to u
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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 10:51:55 AM »
Magnolia.... LOL @ "personality" ... my grandma used to call such folks "characters", but that often meant that they had little or no true character.

Gotta watch out for the non-materialistic old hippy types, I think.... that seems to be a favorite persona of the cerebral N. Glad  you got away from this one!

Hope

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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2006, 01:00:52 AM »
I think you must be right about that Hope. He enjoys the role of the wise, intelligent one.

I don't know if it is me or just the world, or maybe this country, but I meet N all the time. They seem to be everywhere!

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Re: Old NBoyfriend
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2006, 10:11:46 AM »
Hi Magnolia,

When I first became aware of NPD, I went through a lengthy stage of seeing N's behind every tree (or atop each tree hollering, "Look at ME, ain't I speshul???"  :P)  But now I think that I was just such a mouse back then, that anyone with a hefty confidence and sense of self-assertion appeared to me to be a potential N.

Over time, I've come to be able to see more clearly the various shades or gradations of N and how narcissism plays out as a part of an overall healthy personality. It's not the more obvious somatic N's, with all of their preening and self-importance, that give me shivers nearly as much as these self-styled guru types, the cerebral N's ~ word magicians. I like to think of knowledge and awareness as being our cloves of garlic around the neck to ward off these emotional vampires. They tend to scurry quickly in the other direction when they've come eyeball to eyeball with someone who can see the empty, bottomless pit beneath the mask. What's really got me scrambling lately to get wisdom  is the # of people I know who appear to fall under the Borderline Personality Disorder criteria. It can be so difficult to not be a sponge for all of the emotions they try to dump on you. I just don't know whether I can manage that, or is "no contact" the best recourse in these instances, too?
Hope you have a great day, Magnolia  :)

Hope