Boy does this sound familure...
There is also the success oriented narcissist. She will be your friend and keep you close to her as long as you are useful. Once you do not have anything more to offer and she has taken all they wanted from you, you are history. You are no longer desired, wanted, or sought.

I remember a significant half dozen of these in my life. One narcissist in particular avoids me like the plague because he knows that I do not ultimately plan my life around whether people like me or not. Hence my behavior cannot be controlled by him. He is threatened by my self-assuredness. Im not safe to him. It does not matter that I have helped him in critical moments of his life. When he realized that he could not control me to make him look good when I was with him, he dropped me like a heavy weight. I received no more phone calls and was taken off his radar screen.

As I was reading that article I felt that same way Mamoth. I know of people that are every single type of narcissist they pointed out there.

I think there is another aspect that needs to be added to this. Many times parents who choose to olny have one child if they are extreem emotional abusers they tend to raise a child with this personality. It's like this a child grose up being told he does not have to share he can (if wealthy) have as much goods as he wants there is no limet all that is asked in return is that he (heres the trama part) does not talk about abuse within the family if dad lost hos temper and yelled at or beat the kid it's as if it never happend. If mom got upset about somthing that happend at work and came home to call her kid names and blame him for her bad day it never happend. But overall the whole earth revolves aroud this one child who never had to share never shared his feelings, never had to take responsibilty if he punched billy the nabor boy. Also the parents may baby the child doing everything for them this brings them to the point of feeling entitled. Gods gift to the world! I also think there is a false hope for people who are in abusive relationship with a narcisist. Yes change is possible even for a cerial killer. But highly unlikly. The narcistist will change in one way making it obvious that there was a change but they will drain you in another way. "starve the vampire" They are emotional vampires.

By the way I don't have a problem with single child families I just think they have a lot more responsibility on there hands to make sure this dosn't happen. There are plenty of nice people who grew up as an olny child.

Beautifully said Mamoth!

I think I did that to my son. Now, to be fair, he is 14 and self-centeredness comes with the territory to a certain degree, but I know when his father and I left him for 2 weeks when he was only 2, it traumatized him for years. I don't know how to overcome that. If I could do it over again, I would not have gone away.