Beware ‘future-faking’ — this common relationship behavior is actually narcissistic manipulation: expert
By Eric Todisco
Published Jan. 12, 2025, 12:49 p.m. ET
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Partners who do this should be left in the past.
Los Angeles-based psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula made a YouTube video with a dire warning about “future-faking,” a common manipulation tactic used by narcissists in romantic relationships.
Future-faking involves a person making promises to their partner that they have no sincere intent on making true.
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She noted that society “didn’t talk about narcissism until relatively recently in the way that we do now,” so many people who are in their 40s and older “are tolerating toxic relationships but didn’t have any word or model for it.”
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Interesting that not having word or model for a behavior prevents humans from recognizing it. Never thought of that concept. It’s like another “window” in the Johari window Quadrant 3 — “what I can’t see that others can”.
Have to think about that?
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