By Ellie Advice Columnist Wed., Aug. 15, 2018 I have a temperamental bully colleague who started dating someone about 10 months ago. She’s very narcissistic, and tells me things that other people would keep quiet, because she feels that I’m no threat to her plan. She’s very candid about knowing “who he was” and his financial status when she met him, and she went after him because of it. She considers him to be her future security so is doing what she can to lock him down. She can’t stand his parents, considers them simple, was unbelievably critical of their house (not opulent enough for her), and hates his ex-wife and kids. Article Continued Below The kids haven’t warmed to her and she doesn’t care. She considers them an afterthought and not relevant to her goal. She fakes it with all the family and most of their friends. She says she keeps him drinking when they’re together. It’s so he doesn’t notice her faking her feelings, and so she can’t be annoyed by his non-stop business talk. She tolerates the sex but convinces him that she loves it all — loves him, and that she’s so happy — so she can secure a life for her and her son. She’s requesting expensive vacations and jewelry, and starting to alienate him from his friends and family by lying and exaggerating situations to make her seem like a victim. She’s called him her golden ticket and it makes me sick. I don’t… [Read full story]
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