The Prime Aims
I have three Prime Aims.
All of our kind has three Prime Aims.
Our dark and menacing behaviours (even when dressed up as the illusory golden period) are focused on the attainment of these three Prime Aims. They are all that matter. Everything else is dust. We are driven to secure these Prime Aims. They are hard-wired into us, they are sub-conscious requirements in most of our kind and amongst the Greater of our brethren we are aware of the necessity of attaining these three things to ensure that not only do we survive but we also thrive. Everything we do, say and concern ourselves with revolves around achieving these three aims. Nothing else matters.
Do we love you? No. We do not know what that truly is but we will use love or secure our Prime Aims. We will desecrate it through our twisted facsimile of what we understand love to be and use it secure our aims.
Do we want to do good for the disadvantaged around us? No. Yet, if such behaviour will ultimately benefit us through the establishment of a facade which can then be used to further our quest for these Prime Aims then we will become a trustee of that charity or organise a fund raiser for the Orphanage For Unwanted Monobrowed Children.
Do we want to be friends with you because we find your collection of unopened Star Wars figures fascinating. No. We do so because knowing someone with the best collection on the East Coast means that it works in favour of us in terms of attaining the Prime Aims.
Nothing we do is about you. It is all about securing our aims. Admittedly, there will be occasions where we are in alignment and our march with our dark troops by our side to the attainment of the Prime Aims means that you and others benefit. That is pure serendipity and we do not care whether the outcome is good or bad for you, so long as we achieve what we need.
The sooner you grasp and understand that we are focused on securing these Prime Aims and nothing else matters to us, the faster you will be able to formulate your own way to avoid being caught up in their attainment. The Prime Aims and their attainment is the only goal we are interested in and everything else is swept up in the need to achieve them. Children. Job. Home. Wife. Father. Daughter. Friend. Interests. Socialising. Conversations. Money. Status. Manipulation. Connections. Infidelity. Misery. Cruelty. Seduction. Possessions. These and so much more are mere conduits, enablers, bridges to the securing of the Prime Aims.
Never underestimate or fail to recognise the single-mindedness by which our machine like efficiency closes on this goal. You are there to ensure we achieve it. Our faceless Lieutenants and lurking Coterie are there to ensure we achieve it. The secondary and tertiary sources, the facade, the crows, the butterflies, the seduction, the devaluation and the disengagement. The hoovers, oft and repeated or seemingly absent, yet appearing years later are all part of the inextricably linked matrix to achieve the Prime Aims.
So, what are they?
Those of you who have read much of my work will already know what they are, but it is necessary to identify and underline them.
- Fuel/Control
The chief Prime Aim. The most important one and the overriding objective of our engagements with everybody that we come into contact with. Fuel is the emotional response provided by you ad everybody else, caused by us which signals that we have control over you.It may be indirect, for instance someone smiling at us as we walk by, it may be direct because we have provoked you into crying by calling you names.
Fuel is both positive and negative. It flows from all appliances. It varies in potency dependent on the Fuel Index (see the book Fuel for an expansive explanation of this central factor of what drives our kind) and in terms of its quantity and frequency. Fuel powers us. It quells the anguish and the anxiety, it settles us, it edifies us, it makes us powerful and it causes us to feel impregnable, omnipotent and god-like.
It is our drug. We want it and we need it and it must be provided each and every day and we take it from those that we have established in our fuel network. From lover to lollipop lady, everybody and I mean everybody we interactive with is a fuel appliance. The words you use, the tone attached to them, the inflection in your voice, the gestures you make, the things you do, the expression on your face, the sounds you make – all of these provide us with fuel and it has to be caused by us.
If you are crying over the death of your mother, that is not fuel for us. It is fuel for your mother (albeit she didn’t need it when alive and certainly has no use for it now she is cold in the ground). Those tears are wasted and this infuriates us. Thus we will say something hurtful about your pathetic weeping so that you then cry because of what we have said. Your emotional response then is down to us and we gain fuel.
Fuel/Control is the single most important thing to us. We must have control over you and any threat to our control is always met by The 3 Assertions of Control. No fuel and we weaken and ultimately enter a Fuel Crisis.
2. Character Traits
We have built a construct. This construct is like a frame and through the gathering of fuel we are able to then power its maintenance and further development. This construct imprisons The Creature. This construct allows us to show the world what we want to see and thus gain more fuel and the cycle repeats.
Everyone we interact with has the potential to furnish us with character traits which we lift and apply to the construct to make it better, stronger, more attractive and more secure. Each piece of fuel is the paste which enables us to place the shards, segments, patches, pieces and elements of character traits onto the construct and keep them there.
If you wish to understand this in greater detail, read my book Fury.
Your interest in insects, a friend’s sporting achievements, a child’s academic prowess, information from a tertiary source about the best restaurant in Barcelona’s gothic quarter, the humorous anecdotes told by a speaker at an awards dinner, the tales told by a grandparent, the intelligence gathered by a colleague and so on, all of those things become character traits which we will take for ourselves and pass of as our own. We want them and need them from those we interact with. Some have nothing to provide and thus they are less important appliances, but others have many and thus your coruscating, dazzling traits when you are a primary source to us become fundamental as part of the Prime Aims.
3. Residual Benefits
Are you well-off? Have a good house? A car? Access to a particular club? Tickets for sought after games? A famous friend? Excellent carer? Brilliant cook? Social magnet? DIY capable? Good income? Respected community member?
We are entitled and we do not recognise boundaries. Your resources are our resources and the more of those that exist and in different forms, the greater the advantage you possess because of these residual benefits.
These vary dependent on the nature of the narcissist who has ensnared you. We may be financially superior and have a large house, but you are well-thought of by people and have an extensive social circle, political connections and the like, thus we want them.
We may have a physical health problem and therefore the fact that you are a nurse practitioner and exceptionally caring results in those residual benefits becoming the foremost ones.
We may have no job and a rampant cocaine habit, so your well-appointed residence and burgeoning bank account are appealing residual benefits to us.
The list of residual benefits is not exhaustive and they will vary from narcissist to narcissist, but they form a further essential part of this triumvirate.
Thus fuel and control, character traits and residual benefits are the Prime Aims. All appliances are expected to fulfil their obligation to provide us with each element of the Prime Aims, although it is naturally of greater importance concerning the primary source having such applicability.
We are not with you because we love you. We are with you because you as the primary source largely fulfil The Prime Aims and you do so better than anybody else in the Fuel Matrix
We are not friends with you because you are good fun. We are friends with you because as a Non Intimate Secondary Source you contribute to The Prime Aims.
We are not flirting with you because you are hot. We are flirting with you because as an Intimate Tertiary Source you contribute to The Prime Aims.
We do not help you as our sister because we have a sense of duty towards you as a family member. We help you because as a Non Intimate Secondary Source you contribute to The Prime Aims.
We do not have an affair with you because our “wife does not understand us”. We have an affair with you because as a Dirty Little Secret you contribute to The Prime Aims.
You are there to be used. You are in the Fuel Matrix because you contribute, to a greater or lesser extent to The Prime Aims. That is your ONLY function.
Always keep in your mind the relevance of these Prime Aims because this will aid you understanding why certain things are said and done by our kind.
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I reread it. And here’s what I think after a recent psychiatric service meeting at work.
I guess I made the wrong choice of profession. It’s one thing if your boss is a narcissist (that’s one person), but quite another when half the team is narcissists.
God, especially female narcissism…especially when their “mask” slips, it’s disgusting to watch.
I immediately said I was turning down the higher-up position. And then we just spent hours listening to one narcissistic woman fight another narcissistic woman for the same position. One of them is my “sort of friend,” but now our relationship is in a state of devaluation.
Hello HG, by obtaining the new Empath’s Character Traits, wouldn’t you be acting differently to your friends as you are now using the new Character Traits not the previous anymore? Or do you just add them to your arsenal?
They become added in to the overall mix, selected for use at the appropriate time.
Hello HG:
I was wondering about the erosion of empathy or if it’s even something else. I have written about suing my bank and their service provider for hundreds of thousands of dollars. With punitive, it could be millions. They acted as predators putting un-needed insurance on my home and trying to force me to pay. I battled them, caved in and paid them … among other unethical practices and lies… and now I am suing them. They have had class actions in the USA with one involving one billion in settlement as they were getting kickbacks from the insurance industry. Corrupt. The Consumer Financial Board fined them 37 million for the same. A “ select few” with a majority shareholder called Blackeock. And I gave them a warning last year about their practices and my defenses to them. I copied their records and kept my own. I have got them on paper. Their lawyers keep calling me. Today he said they want to resolve it. They want to offer me money to go away. But I feel zero empathy. Although calm cool and collect and civil with their lawyer, I want to burn them to the ground and after I am done, I want to help others. Once I have the experience. I enjoy the idea of discovery and depositions and exposing them. I have read case after case and in my pleadings I outlined their practices that harm disabled vets, the elderly and millions. I called them con artist psychopathic zombies holding my breached contract in their hand who prey on hard working Americans because they are losing money due to high interest rates and less mortgages and the catastrophic commercial losses to the commercial (and retail) sector post COVID who abandoned leases to let workers work remote. Thus they turn to corruption. Ever since I sued them, they call daily and I leave their calls be. I feel nothing but cold. I have zero empathy. All that I want is justice. Is this an erosion of empathy? I feel positively psychopathic with them. I feel nothing. The idea of going to a jury of my peers sounds great. It’s beyond anger. I feel this cold steely resolve. I don’t mind this part of me. I can’t change it nor do I want to change it. But it makes me feel like there is a percent of me that is a psychopath. I feel like a blade. All I want is to cut deep and change them. I know it is unlikely but I feel if I can just create an incision painful enough, it might help not just me but others. And I don’t care about them or any of the faces behind them. I want them to pay, to change, and if my greatest wish were to come true to die ( not literally but for their corruption to die). When you do an ED , do you consider psychopathy?
Can an empath have a psychopathic within? I don’t know what else to call it. I feel like a blade. Not emotion. No empathy. Perfectly calm. Resolved to the point of no return. I feel nothing but a decision. A resolve. A goal.
I am not sure it’s anger anymore. It’s something else like a quest. I smile inside at the idea of laying out the hard evidence after I have filed motion after motion to get the highest rank in the deposition room. I am prepared for their motions having consulted with others in the field. I have carefully planned this too. Seeking out experts in the field taking weeks to draft the pleading doing hours and hours of research. I mean what part of this is normal for an empath? To plot so coolly, cruelly and without elevated emotion. Just a cog in a wheel determined to move, a blade inserted to create pain and the desire to wield as much change or blood as possible. ???
Could I be a contagion with a minority psychopathy?
And I am enjoying every second of it. Every call to resolve things left unanswered. I don’t want a quick resolution. I don’t want a quick payout. Not my m.o. I won’t say what a want.
Hi Contagious,
After reading your comments, I wanted you to know that I have felt that way too….when my sense of justice is triggered and it affects my empathy level for the one who hurt me or others.
Do you have Geyser in your empath make up? Geyser can make your anger become highly angry, to the point of feeling psycho. I have experienced this and I wonder if that is what you’re experiencing too. Xx
I maybe wrong, but I don’t think psychopathy and empath can be in the same person. I think you’re experiencing a form of cliff fightback, or if you have Super in your make up, it might even be a Super nova. Xx
Hope you get them, for you and everyone they hurt! Xx
Mr. Tudor–
HG Tudor says (about acquiring character traits from new empaths): They become added in to the overall mix, selected for use at the appropriate time.
You’ve mentioned that there are manipulations that you rarely/never use, like pity plays.
1. What kinds of character traits do you rarely or never select for use?
2. Why are they rarely selected?
Thank you so much for your time. Much appreciated.
The overly compassionate and touch-feely, spiritual nonsense.
Thank you for answering, sir. I appreciate it.
H.G. TUDOR But actions are important, not motives. Perhaps, if we analyze the motives of an ordinary person, there will also be a lot about ourselves, for ourselves. I understand that this is different. I understand.
In fact, it is so twofold. On the one hand, this truth is sobering. On the other hand, it is very painful for a person. Perhaps even unbearable.
And, probably, in order to endure interaction with a narcissist, it seems easier not to know (if you are not the main source, but just a colleague at work, for example). Because you begin to demonize and this makes it even harder.
About the creature – this is similar in description to the inner critic that everyone who has experienced trauma has. Complex PTSD.
You often write that a narcissist does not have his own personality, that it is woven from the personalities of other people. But what about the fact that an ordinary person simply does not ask himself about his personality. I started to analyze “my personality” – I have a lot of borrowed jokes from my friends, brother, I wrinkle my forehead in the sun like my father and I have the same look, I laugh like my classmate, I prop my head up with my hand like my mother and so on … a lot. People often mimic each other and the personality of any person is a combination of different components. But I did not think that I “stole” it. Although there is a lot of borrowed stuff. This is a very debatable topic. If you analyze the personality of an individual person …
I am curious about fuel. And why fuel? It is interesting from the point of view of biology, what is it, what do you need 24/7. After all, it is not even food. Like oxygen? If it supports life, then the meaning of all life is reduced only to supporting life? And nothing more? I do not believe that everything is so simple.
Hi Josephenia:
I thought your comment was interesting. It dives into what is personality? Is it DNA ( wrinkles in the head) or environment ( jokes you learn). And then there are those with trauma. I was lucky as many many kind compassionate people in my life growing up and early romantic relationships so when I fell in love with someone who grew up with trauma and his abuse turned on me. It was shocking. What is this? A first. And I tried to understand it and heal it with love as that’s all I knew. Then HG educated me. What I know is that I see my dna and their father and our families in our children. I sometimes wonder if it’s all dna. I don’t know but I do believe in the cycle of abuse. I have seen it. Those raised in it. It seems like the air they breathe, totally normal to them. It’s how they cope. It’s all they know and you can’t change it. Per HG if narcissism and certainly psychopathy, even skilled professionals cant. I have found it’s not so easy because narcs are half man, half wounded child. We would all be complete idiots if we loved them if they abused us 24/7. Many are good to us a lot of the time but the bad things they do cannot be ignored. People make mistakes. People have bad days but if the person you love acts even a day a year in a way you could never, it’s not right. I can’t tolerate abuse. Even if I understand it comes from tragic circumstances when they are young. I just can’t live with it. But the exact nature of why? Or why something that can be wired cannot be unwired… I have no answers. I only know what I can live with.
Hello, Contagious!
You have zero tolerance for violence, and I fully support you in this.
It’s good that you wrote all this. Thank you.
Due to my professional activities, I hear so much in my appointments about how different people do terrible things to different people and not all of these people are narcissists.
Perhaps that is why it sounds like I am trying to justify.
Perhaps, as a doctor, working with both types, it is difficult for me… In general, it is difficult to judge when you understand.
I have never had hatred towards narcissists, I did not want to take revenge (although for many years I was subjected to emotional abuse by one of them). For me, it is more regret, deep sadness, pain … from the fact that this happened to me. I went outside in the rain, I do not scold the rain, I know that it cannot not fall, I am sorry that I went out without an umbrella and therefore got wet. A monstrous pity. On the one hand, it’s a pity for yourself. On the other hand, it’s a pity for him. The metaphor with the rain doesn’t work here. Of course, it’s very encouraging when H.G. TUDOR writes that being a narcissist is cool… But it doesn’t seem quite so to me. Or maybe I just haven’t had any luck with examples 😊
What H.G. Tudor does is useful for people who have already been in a relationship with a narcissist or have been in one for a long time. But this information cannot be a preventative measure. No book, posts, or special education will help if you have no experience interacting with a narcissist. I can write a whole book about why it won’t help. The information on this site helps people who have already lived through this experience to find answers to many questions, fill in the gaps, gain understanding, live through this pain, understand that they are not guilty and could not do anything, that the ending of this story/game is determined no matter which path you choose and, most importantly, to protect yourself and protect yourself from re-experiencing this experience.
But a person needs to stop in time. Constantly reading about narcissism, constantly being on guard, constantly sitting here on the forum … this is not recovery, this is prolonging your trauma and acquiring a new one in the form of “paranoia”.
Again, what if you have to interact with narcissists, one way or another, for example at work. If you see them as monsters, you automatically become a victim, you stigmatize yourself. I would say no contact and at some point “no information about narcissists”, otherwise recovery will be impossible.
Hi, Josephina. I have some questions if you’d be willing to respond.
1) “But this information cannot be a preventative measure.”
What do you mean by this? I understand that those who have had entanglement with narcissists have a particular need for HG’s material and it’s especially beneficial for them, but how can it not be preventative for others? Isn’t an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Can’t it help anyone willing to learn, especially as the world becomes more narcissistic?
2) “But a person needs to stop in time.”
I’ve come to understand that my attraction to narcissists is addictive. It’s part of my makeup; I’m as drawn to them as a drug addict is to his or her drug(s) of choice. How would “no information about narcissists” aid my recovery? The more I understand narcissists the less I fear, so I don’t see how engaging with this forum causes paranoia. Is replacing an unhealthy addiction (or managing it) with a beneficial habit not part of recovery? If I were addicted to cocaine (apt because the chase, high and crash I get from the narcissist is similar) and I found I needed to attend a meeting every single day in order not to pick up, am I not in recovery?
3) “In general, it is difficult to judge when you understand.”
Could you clarify? Aren’t judgment and discrimination easier and therefore more likely to occur the more you understand all the factors? Or are you saying cognitive empathy (understanding) promotes an unwillingness to find fault in others? I’m not sure about that either–I understand people who have done me wrong, their feelings and experiences, but I still judge them assholes and find it satisfying when they fail. And my joy isn’t entirely shameful.
Thank you for your engagement.
Hi Josephina!
I agree, monstrous pity is a pain in the backside. I came to understand that the pity is inseparable; when it is dolled out towards others one can be assured that in reality it’s a projection – a self pity which simply masks itself.
Pitying others only means that we unawarely assume our circumstances are better in some way thus allowing us to pass judgement in the form of a pity towards the “less fortunate” from our assumed “better” positioning in life…
Where I disagree with you is that the information here can’t be a preventative measure. It’s quite the opposite. Where people are working in a narcissist’ infested environment they are more likely exposed to emotional thinking on a regular basis and may find themselves under an ongoing spell of a narcissistic dynamic as a non intimate secondary source etc. Whereas here on the blog/YT the emotional thinking is repeatedly crushed and one’s focus and perspective aligned towards a clear understanding with whom we’re dealing and what’s the best way in how we may do so.
Yes, I’ve seen people doing what you’ve described aka prolonging their trauma but it was due to the effect of them not applying the knowledge HG provides. In fact they were in a self pitying stage which made it difficult for them to recover.
Spheres of Influence and No Contact means to remove the narcissist from all spheres of influence including one’e head (stop thinking, talking and exchanging about the narcissist). But it’s all in HG’s information and if people are not applying it, it’s not because the forum is somehow preventing them from recovery.
The other thing I wanted to add is that reading about your entanglement on the Questioning feed was very insightful! Thank you for sharing your situation and what you’re going through and your perception of the situation gave also a fascinating insight into your Empath Cadre specifically! HG’s assistance would help you tremendously to bring clarity to your situation and your perception of the situation vs actual reality! One thing is clear: you’re a narc-magnet… which brings with it the addiction you described so vividly.
It seems to me that this cannot be a primitive measure, for many reasons. Because under the spell of some narcissists, few can resist. Because people will instinctively justify / close their eyes / ignore the actions of this person, some people literally cannot believe it (if they have never encountered it). Emotional abuse can be very filigree. Even being in a relationship with a narcissist and living through all this, you often ask yourself the question “is all this real?”, to what extent is what is happening not my cognitive distortion and how much does everything here depend on my perception? Gaslighting is a powerful thing. Again, people who have not encountered such things will read everything written here as a “scary bedtime story”. Believe me, I have tried more than once to introduce my colleagues to this reading, to engage in, so to speak, “education” … Most of them considered everything written to be nonsense, and I felt despair from their reaction … they are simply blind, they simply do not believe, although they are professionals in psychiatry, but they do not believe.
And again, why would a person who has not encountered narcissists know about them? If you really delve into the deep meaning of all the texts, this is quite difficult reading … it is painful and scary … Why do people need this? Is this their defense? But what if they never meet narcissists on their path and live quite happily without this information … This is purely my opinion. I am not imposing it. I do not think that it is the only correct one.
“Could you clarify? Aren’t judgment and discrimination easier and therefore more likely to occur the more you understand all the factors? Or are you saying cognitive empathy (understanding) promotes an unwillingness to find fault in others? I’m not sure about that either–I understand people who have done me wrong, their feelings and experiences, but I still judge their assholes and find it satisfying when they fail. And my joy isn’t entirely shameful.»
It’s hard to explain what I feel. As if I was constantly trying to make it so that the wolves were fed and the sheep were safe. Apparently, it turned out badly. Utopia. Don’t look for direct comparisons here. I’ll think about how best to describe it and answer. Because I want to try to explain.
«I agree, monstrous pity is a pain in the backside. I came to understand that the pity is inseparable; when it is dolled out towards others one can be assured that in reality it’s a projection – a self pity which simply masks itself.
Pitying others only means that we unawarely assume our circumstances are better in some way…»
I have always been very upset by the opinion of psychologists on this matter. They see projection in everything. In principle, they explain all “kind” actions in the same way. “You are so kind because you want others to be kind to you.” Or “You are so kind because no one has ever treated you like that.” And so on and so forth.
Pity is probably just the wrong word. Sympathy is the right word. Empathy is the right word. I admit, perhaps understanding somewhere, because it touches on what hurts inside you. But, I can empathize with very different people and not all of them are like me in their “traumas” and not all of them (thank GOD!) are narcissists.
As for “circumstances are better in some way.” In some ways it is better, in others it is worse…it depends on how you look at it)
«Spheres of Influence and No Contact means to remove the narcissist from all spheres of influence including one’s head (stop thinking, talking and exchanging about the narcissist). But it’s all in HG’s information and if people are not applying it, it’s not because the forum is somehow preventing them from recovery.»
Eh, Jordyguin. I agree with you. I don’t even see any contradictions here. I don’t think I blamed the forum for being harmful. But the forum is addictive, reading about narcissists is addictive and it seems to me a natural stage of recovery, when at some point you put this flow on stop. Some will leave, other readers will come. It’s normal. You know, like a doctor who lets his patients go after treatment. He has completed a course of therapy. But! At the same time, in the event of an exacerbation, patients can always come back again. I hope I was able to explain my thought…
«One thing is clear: you’re a narc-magnet… which brings with it the addiction you described so vividly.»
The news is SHIT! I’ll go cry into my pillow. Or would it be better to shoot myself in the forehead?
I remember the consultation with H.G. Tudor. But, unfortunately, there are a number of difficulties and it takes time. Money is not a problem. (I don’t know why I’m making excuses now). But there are technical difficulties. The consultation will definitely take place. Or a bullet in the forehead.
Must have missed the beginning of the message. Here it is:
Holy shit! I didn’t see all these wonderful comments in time. Thank you all so much!!! You wrote so much. The problem is in the translation difficulties, I miss the meaning somewhere and apparently don’t understand when new comments come in. I’ll answer everyone at once. Sorry if it’s clumsy. Contagious Thank you! I’m also very glad to meet you. Allison, Jordyguin hi hi.
A bullet in the forehead? Nö, nö, nö, nö, please give that gun back to HG, Josi!! I get you! Sympathy or empathy is the right word, yes! It is different from pity. Wholly different.
And yes, the forum is addictive in many ways and the dynamic is interesting and ultra fabulous actually! But as you mentioned, your colleagues didn’t pick up on the accuracy and importance of the information you were trying to share with them, which means; as long as you need to absorb and unravel what happened to you and what it all means – you are in the right company here if you wish to engage and speak your mind; as you are going through different stages whilst processing the information which you didn’t encounter before in such clarity. So it’s a whole new experience but it’s also painful and also enlightening and it’s worth it. But because you, Josephina, are highly empathic, which is almost tangible through your writings, the information gets to you all the more and more intensely! So keep that in mind also. And it would make absolute sense if you need to distance yourself in order to digest the new stuff and return for further input when you need it. For how long are you reading now? Something about a year?
Hello Josephine:
Very nice to meet you. I am in total agreement. I would hate to lose that part of myself that trusts others, sees the good in people just because I had one personal experience with narcs. And I don’t hate my ex narc, he has a lot of trauma from childhood. A childhood no one should experience. But some here are still within that relationship. Some here have been more traumatized than me or have children at risk. I don’t blame them for having their shackles up in fact it might save them for awhile. It’s a great diverse community. And healing to me comes from love and support and knowledge no matter what stage you are in. When my neighbor lost her son, I would leave her thought out gifts with a note, you are not alone. For a year, I did this. I barely knew her but today, she runs up and hugs me. That’s community. You are not alone. HG is unique in that he jumps in and comments on the blog too. I have enjoyed it and got to know wonderful people even those I disagree with. As I am narc free, I still enjoy it. Not leaving anytime soon. Even registering I pick up nuances and understanding. I love it when HG provides new material and new information. In fact, I often wish HG would throw a masquerade party ( lol masks) so those in the blog could meet in person. I have come to respect and value many as friends. I have learned a lot. More to come!
Best wishes!