I Never Meant to Learn about Narcissism.

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In fact, my church taught that psychology and psychiatry were suspect, sketchy, unreliable, and even anti-God, possibly.

But when you run into situations that don’t make sense and you start Googling and find out about narcissism, then you see it.

Then you see it more. Then you’re afraid it’s you — you’re the narcissist, or that you’re just looking for it or seeing it under every bush, like when your friend gets a yellow VW and now you see them on the road daily.

I would argue that narcissism is way more prevalent than anyone could discover from a scientific study.

Based on the number of people I coach or interact with regularly and based on the fact that narcissists do not typically seek out counseling (because they can’t be wrong), there’s a lot of them roaming around out there in the wild, posing as salesmen, preachers, moms, coaches, husbands, white-collar workers, and especially executives/bosses/influencers.

I entered marriage as an un-kissed virgin. My religion taught that we should have no contact physically with the opposite sex (and none ever with the same sex!) unless we were married.

Well, if you have desires, that leaves you one option: get married.

So I did.