actually lazy if you wanted to make that comparison in a perverse way to a narcissist. A jerk would rather walk away rather than go to all the effort to love bomb, use intermittent reinforcement, effect gaslighting or blame-shifting and they are not likely to play the victim.

While a jerk may not be the most pleasant person to be around, they do have empathy. They ultimately will not drag you into a situation you find hard to extricate yourself from just for their own sadistic pleasure and need for validation, and narcissistic supply. A jerk simply couldn't be bothered.

I once used to say of a narcissist I was involved with, that he was the type of person who would spend $10 000 to make a point over $100. Very often even to their own detriment, a narcissist will go out of their way t...

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