Which type of narcissist is most likely to cheat on you?
Not all narcissists cheat – but when they do, it’s never just about sex. For some, it’s about power, for others, it’s about validation, and for a few, it’s just another way to manipulate. But which type of narcissist is most likely to cheat? Let’s break it down and take a closer look at who strays, who stays, and who hides it best.
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All narcissist cheat it’s just hidden and covertly
All of them
Yeah
Agree … but my own personal experience is the Malignant narcissistic
I’d say that the Somatic Narcissist is most likely to cheat. They extract validation using their bodies, so it makes sense. However, keep in mind that emotional cheating is more damaging to a relationship than physical cheating.
Both hurt like hell. Emotionally and physically..
All cheating hurts. I wouldn’t say that one type is more or less hurtful & painful than the other.
Infidelity ☂️
Infidelity can even be weaponized so you are gaslit.
Does it matter which and what kind? They’re narcissist, that’s all I need to know and had to run away from.
All of them will cheat. But they will all have different excuses for cheating.
“The most painful realisation is when, years later, you finally see that you were never truly in a relationship or marriage at all. You were just playing a role in someone else’s script—one where love, respect, and partnership were never really part of the story.”
Yes. This is what I am having a lot of trouble with.
Well said.
Exactly 😉 most situations today!
The way you part that is so on point for me now .. knowing we aren’t divorcing until he’s he’s ready I’m just emotionless with him …
Currently attempting to wrap my head around this! Thank you to Dr Romney and others like her for spreading awareness. Dr Romney’s knowledge and an ability to articulate is unparalleled, imo! Had it not been for this insight I would be F@%#€d. I have been chasing my tail for years, and the harder I try, the more indifference I received! I have been exhausted for years, and once I figured it out and paid close attention, it was jaw dropping! I was furious, and did not hold back at all. Now I’m so overly honest, direct & str8 to the point and we’re getting divorced. I’m still ruminating but receiving help from my therapist, but as many of you all know this is not something you just get over. To think that all those years together was something other than love hurts me in a way that I’ve never quite felt. Thanks for letting me speak everyone!
You are never the narcissist’s partner. It’s just your turn.
All narcissists work with a double standard: What is cheating to you is not cheating to them. I had a self-righteous narcissist get furious with me for taking a phone call that was hard for me to break off quickly enough; he saw this as cheating on him. But when he went after me for being handicapped, he felt his behavior was totally moral and correct.
You can’t fix a narc, and you can’t win with one either.
Projection!!!
Omg…….”they are really nice and happy all the time………..” that’s how i explain the cheating narc i sadly live with. And then there’s the but….
But… their true ugliness shows up when you choose to take care of yourself first ….
Stop playing mommy to someone who sees you as leftover dog food in the bowl while the goodies are somewhere out there
All of them will do it for various reasons but at the end of the day it gives them supply.
Great video Dr. Ramani! 👍🙂👍
Correct, constant text communications with female “friends.” Likely, led to physical cheating.
You’re only mommy supply like dog food left over in the bowl so get a life plz & address codependency
7:31 This part is so funny: the communal narcs when they find time in their schedule from saving the world …..
All the types of Narcs cheat on you in every way imaginable. They are creative with it.
Thank you for acknowledging this painful truth, Dr. Ramani. Giving everything, sacrificing everything, for over a decade, only to still get betrayed… Your validation is healing!
Which type of snake is more dangerous ?
This question sounds like that for me.
I know a self-righteous narc type person who cheated. He felt so much shame he tried to end his life. (I don’t know if he is severe enough to be diagnosed, but he has the tendencies and effects on others).
I don’t know what type my ex would be. He in some areas was very grandiose (thought he could write a book that would fix ALL the problems in the world and show everyone how to run countries and businesses and their lives) but also very vulnerable (said he was terrible and the worst and begged people to hit him so he could be punished for being less than he should be). He cheated. 🤷♀️
But he didn’t do it in secret very long. He asked me to let him have both me and her in the house, said he wanted to be her friend and couldn’t without s*x. Then he told me he was going to move out and come date me once a week (we had a newborn and had been married 4 years). I said no. He left. He said he wanted the “freedom and fun” he could have with her over the “responsibility” he had with me.
Well, okay then. Years later, I am very glad he left my life. It was very painful at the time.
My mother betrayed me from birth, she knew my father was toxic but went ahead anyway. She then betrayed me by getting 2 family members out of the way that she didn’t like, so I had next to no relationship with them and none with my cousins. Then she betrayed me by not protecting me from my father or others in my midst. Her ultimate betrayal, never seeing or hearing or being there for me like a mother and convincing me, all of the mess that ensued is my fault and that she loves me. This isn’t love.
They all fear abandonment.