One prominent phenomenon I see these days is how much women are projecting their own esteem issues onto the men they are relating with.

It isn't so much that the men they are with are doing anything bad or abusive to devalue the women.  It's simply that the the woman is FEELING devalued.

This phenomenon is very parallel to what people with Narcissistic Personality Disorders experience.  Somebody, somewhere does or says something, and the Narcissist FEELS hurt; they feel offended; they feel diminished.  This is called a Narcissistic Injury.

Nobody is out to cause a Narcissist this Narcissistic Injury.  It occurs because the narcissist's self-esteem is always hanging by a thread.

Once the injury has occurred, what does the Narcissist do?  They seek revenge.  They hurt the other.

I see women demolishing their relationship with men in similar fashion.  They are rejecting men not for who those men are.  They are rejecting them after projecting their own insecurities and negative feelings about themselves onto the men.

Nobody can solve our esteem issues for us.  It isn't anybody else's job to make us see and feel our own value.

-- Om Rupani
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