The Disadvantages of Enabler Relationships

Some enablers are benefiting and that's the other more difficult side of enabling. We don't want to see someone like we're getting money from or a cabin from as being a rotten person because what does that say about us? Many times enabling relationships are transactional. They're benefiting from the narcissist. And so again, these are often people in our lives we adore. So when we feel like they're propping up the narcissist or they're simply not seeing the gaslighting, A, they may not know what it is. But when you explain what it is, you're threatening their worldview.

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