Defeating the Codependent Within

This is a repost of my article on A King’s Castle; comments are disabled here.

In a recent post I criticized a man for how he handled a narcissistic woman; in fact, I didn’t merely criticize him, I diagnosed him as a codependent, as a covert narcissist himself.

This is precisely how [Reddit User] ToastedCookieOats is behaving.  He not only tolerated her bad behaviour (plenty of men might have put up with it to avoid making a scene), he actively encouraged it by praising her the next day.  She...