A Narcissist is not capable of love!

I have also noticed that these people almost never laugh except when they see someone else fail in some way. They will laugh when their target falls on the stairs, but see no humor in a joke someone else makes that everyone else is laughing at and is truly funny. The need to be the center of attention does not afford them the luxury of validating anyone else by laughing at their joke or engaging in happiness with someone else.

The narcs that I have met criticise everything about the person who has challenged them in some way, an effort to get them to respond in an emotional way, so they can feel elevated.

Narcissists have unpredicted outbursts of anger to intimidate others, leaving them with the sense that they are superior. Rejecting anything good others do is a common tactic of the narcissist, validating those that will not elevate the narc, is unthinkable to them.

The best thing to do with these people is to ignore their outbursts, nagging and devaluing, responding is counted as the narcs win over their target.

God said not to answer a fool according to their folly, it is not only a waste of time but also feeds their perverted need to upset their target.

God also says to avoid divisive people, narcs are divisive, their intent is to ruin the relationships and reputation of their target. These tactics can be covert or overt, the narc is careful to cloak his actions in the presence of those he wants to impress, and overt when there is no one around to notice what is going on.

God clearly tells us to avoid these people if at all possible. They offer nothing in the way of friendship or companionship. 2 Timothy 3 is a description of them, their numbers are growing in these end times. We have no obligation to remain in their lives, in fact God tells us to remove ourselves from them.

"Avoid such men as these" 2 Timothy 3:1-5

"1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."