📝 Narcissistic behavior? Curious?

By petalz24 • Score: 0 • April 17, 2025 11:14 AM


curious what you all think...

I dated a guy for 6 months. right before we were about to move in together (2 weeks before), he shared with me (out of nowhere) that we should go in "different directions" on Valentine's Day of all days... this ways after months of me putting up with a lot of one-sided behaviors with him and promises from him that he would change and work on improving things in the relationship.

what got to me was how after he shared this he never called to check up on me or asked if I was okay. I had literally been packing up my belongings for months and gave away a lot of my belongings (he told me to start getting ready for the move months prior). this guy also makes a lot more than me (if I could guess around 250k) whereas I'm barely making it by getting started in my career. it just really gave me a bad feeling in my gut... him not asking if he could help out or checking in on me after he abruptly ended things and left me high and dry and in a tricky situation.

I'm wondering if this is narcissistic behavior? 🤔 or is this normal for a guy to do this after a break up/break up like this? - it seemed very cold and heartless to me, and to confirmed my suspicions that he lacks empathy as I felt alone oftentimes in the relationship (where the feeling of it being one-sided often stemmed from).

can you all give any advice/insight? feeling a bit crushed and even used. 😞

another somewhat random but related thing I thought back on after things ended too was how he drives a bright sports car with his initials and the #1 on the license. Funny, because every time I asked him if he could do something nice for me/the relationship, he would push back, stating that spending money like that was a sin. Yet, preceded to own a fancy sports car, wear designer clothing, had a huge collection of fancy wines, etc. etc. 🤔

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