Instead, when empaths and narcissists come together, for both of them, it’s like looking into a mirror. Each one gazes back at the other, thinking about the choices they’ve made, fascinated by what they could have become.

I remain convinced of this theory today—that narcissists used to be empaths when they were on the light side, and so now, living on the dark side, they consciously and unconsciously return to that population to use it as a feeding ground.

I felt instinctively that after that traumatic event my boss had come to an emotional crossroads where she needed to make a choice: Attempt to heal and seek the light, or shut down totally and throw her lot in with the dark. She chose to go to the dark side.

constant thirst for manipulation.

She was a sensitive intuitive person, just like me.

narcissist is a born taker and the empath a born giver,

almost preternatural instinct for sniffing out those who have an extraordinary capacity to give, because they have an extraordinary capacity to take.

Empaths and narcissists are naturally drawn to each other, experts say, for a variety of reasons. Empaths want to preserve harmony no matter the cost, so they will let a narcissist run roughshod over their boundaries. Also, in the empath the narcissist finds a seemingly bottomless reservoir of compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and desire to

I was an empath and she was a narcissist, and the two went together like night and day.