The ONLY Person a Narcissist Will Ever Bow Down To (Hint: It is not his Mother)
It proves that their cruelty is not a wild, untamed, animal primitive response that they cannot control. They only leash that animal when they see physical, tangible power standing right in front of them. If you do not have a massive bank account to threaten them with, you’re just a target. And even then, if you have it and they have power over you, they’re going to destroy you.
At the end of the day, they do not bow to a person’s character. They bow to a transaction.
Think of a narcissist like a broken vending machine. A vending machine does not care if a dollar bill was earned by a saint or stolen by a criminal. It does not care if the money is dirty or in the dirt. It only cares about the denomination.
When a normal person shows respect, it is an emotional response to someone’s character. We respect people who are brave, honest, or deeply kind. Narcissists do not care about your soul. You will watch them sit across from a rich person they absolutely despise. Behind closed doors, the narcissist will call this person stupid, ugly, and all sorts of names—annoying and whatnot. But to their face? Oh my god—the narcissist is licking their boots, pouring their wine, and kissing their behind.
They’re not honoring the human being sitting across from them. No. They’re honoring the excess. They’re worshiping the network, the private jets, and the influence. They’re a mercenary, changing their flag the second a higher bidder walks into the room.
When you’re watching them act perfectly polite and submissive to someone with this kind of status, a cold realization washes over you. You feel sick to your stomach. You start asking yourself: “Wait—if they are capable of being this patient, this charming, and this respectful to a stranger with money, why couldn’t they just be nice to me?”
This is the moment the illusion shatters. The painful truth is they always possessed the ability to treat you right. They had a volume knob for their behavior the entire time, and they kept it turned all the way down for the value—but cranked it up to maximum the second they walked through your front door. They just didn’t think you were important enough to deserve their basic decency.
They looked at your endless forgiveness and viewed it as a weakness they could exploit. They looked at the other person’s status and viewed it as a weapon they had to respect.
Your abuse was not an accident. It was a calculated, conscious choice made by someone you knew exactly what they were doing.
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