Dr. Cali Estes is featured in Sheknows magazine, discussing what happens when you are married to a narcissist and what to do if you think you are stuck in a relationship with one.
So You Married a Narcissist — Now What?
Marriage can be challenging under the best of circumstances, and if one partner lives with a mental health condition, the complexity of your life together only increases. If you realize you may have married a narcissist, you might be wondering what to do next.
Pretty much everyone has a narcissistic trait or two — narcissism tends to exist along a spectrum of severity. But narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by a “pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy,” according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition.
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