Narcy’s Core Twenty-Four — Counter Sheet

Tactic → Counter Response → Inner Reminder — Main Supply–SuperMain pauses in silence after the conflict fades — the calm costs energy, but brings clarity. your printed defense plan.
A concise Core 24 reference you can keep nearby to reinforce boundaries and pattern awareness.

1. Boundaries
Tactic:

Narcy tests, pushes, or ignores your limits.

Counter Response:

State your limit once. Enforce with action, not debate.

Inner Reminder:

A boundary is healthy, not negotiable.

2. Devaluation
Tactic:

You’re idealized, then suddenly criticized.

Counter Response:

Stop chasing their approval.

Inner Reminder:

Their shift reflects them, not your worth.

3. Discard
Tactic:

Abrupt rejection after use.

Counter Response:

See it as escape, not rejection.

Inner Reminder:

Being discarded doesn’t define your value.

4. Dry Begging
Tactic:

Narcy hints, whines, or guilt-trips to get supply without asking.

Counter Response:

Offer only by clear choice, not hint pressure.

Inner Reminder:

Pressure ≠ obligation.

5. Idealization
Tactic:

Early pedestal—‘perfect’ you can’t maintain.

Counter Response:

Slow the pace and keep your routines.

Inner Reminder:

Pedestals are unstable; time tests truth.

6. Future Faking
Tactic:

Promises dangled but never kept.

Counter Response:

Wait for actions, not words.

Inner Reminder:

Hope without follow-through is control.

7. Gaslighting
Tactic:

Twisting facts to make you doubt yourself.

Counter Response:

Document events; trust your record.

Inner Reminder:

Clarity doesn’t need consensus.

8. Guilt-Tripping
Tactic:

They make you feel bad for saying no.

Counter Response:

Pause. Guilt is not a guide.

Inner Reminder:

Their guilt is their tool, not your truth.

9. Love Bombing
Tactic:

Overwhelming affection to trap you early.

Counter Response:

Slow it down. Time tests truth.

Inner Reminder:

Intensity isn’t intimacy.

10. Intermit. Reinforcement
Tactic:

Random rewards to keep you hooked.

Counter Response:

Name the pattern; stop chasing crumbs.

Inner Reminder:

Consistency is love, not randomness.

11. Projection
Tactic:

They accuse you of what they do themselves.

Counter Response:

Say less. Let their words expose themselves.

Inner Reminder:

Projection is their reflection, not your reality.

12. Silent Treatment
Tactic:

Withdrawal used as punishment.

Counter Response:

Refuse to chase silence. Keep your calm.

Inner Reminder:

Their silence isn’t your shame.

13. Triangulation
Tactic:

Using a third party to divide and control.

Counter Response:

Opt out of the triangle.

Inner Reminder:

I don’t compete for truth.

14. Validation
Tactic:

Approval they never truly give back.

Counter Response:

Self-acknowledge first.

Inner Reminder:

Validation is an inside job.

15. Victim-Playing
Tactic:

Narcy paints herself as the injured party.

Counter Response:

Empathy without rescue.

Inner Reminder:

Her past isn’t your prison.

16. Faux Reciprocity
Tactic:

Giving with strings attached.

Counter Response:

Receive without contract.

Inner Reminder:

Genuine giving expects nothing back.

17. Bandwagon Compliance
Tactic:

Narcy declares a new mission, and everyone must join in.

Counter Response:

Respect their choice; keep your autonomy.

Inner Reminder:

Participation isn’t proof of loyalty.

18. Guilt Gifting
Tactic:

Presents or favors used to erase wrongdoing or secure access.

Counter Response:

A gift that manipulates isn’t generosity.

Inner Reminder:

Kindness given to control is counterfeit.

19. Battering Ram
Tactic:

Forcing entry — emotional or physical — under the guise of momentum or sunk cost.

Counter Response:

Pause. Consent isn’t a schedule.

Inner Reminder:

Urgency is a weapon when it cancels choice.

20. Smear Seeding
Tactic:

Planting subtle doubts about you to damage reputation.

Counter Response:

Stay factual; don’t defend fiction.

Inner Reminder:

Silence keeps truth clean.

21. Double Bind
Tactic:

No-win setup where every option condemns you.

Counter Response:

Step out of the trap entirely.

Inner Reminder:

No choice is safer than a rigged choice.

22. Narcissistic Rage
Tactic:

Explosive anger used to intimidate when control slips.

Counter Response:

Exit the blast zone. No audience, no fuel.

Inner Reminder:

Their volume doesn’t erase your value.

23. Hoovering
Tactic:

Pull-back tactics after distance—apologies, nostalgia, ‘emergencies’—to reel you in.

Counter Response:

Don’t debate the past; enforce your boundary plan.

Inner Reminder:

Missing you isn’t changing for you.

24. Adoration Seeking
Tactic:

Fishing for repeated praise to re-hear validation.

Counter Response:

Offer honest feedback once; don’t loop it.

Inner Reminder:

Self-worth isn’t crowd-sourced.