This challenge has been the greatest one I have tackled yet, and it has been almost impossible to gain any sustainable results.
My group of friends has been infiltrated by a sociopathic, malignant narcissist. In just six months, she has almost dismantled our previously happy little group. She easily manipulates men and women alike, but men are her easiest prey. She is the worst human being that I have ever met.
She seduced and dumped one friend, and then falsely accused him of domestic violence and got him outcast from the group so that she wouldn’t have to deal with him hanging around.
A handful of us had her number from the beginning. We couldn’t convince the others, but eventually she did so much damage that we ALL got sick of her. She has worn out her welcome with everyone but about four people.
One of them is my ex.
She was cheating on him for the first two months of their relationship. Since he is in the middle of a volatile divorce, he’s falling hard for her love bombing. So much so, that in just six months, she has convinced him to give up his home and move in with her… making him and his minor son dependent on her for housing.
Now, she’s isolated him away from everyone else in the group. And convinced him that she also needs to rent an apartment in a nearby town for her “work.” This is how she cheated on him before… work traveling.
I have watched him go from life of the party to sitting silently in a corner next to her. She dictates every thought and every movement. Which people he is allowed to speak to. A friend recently told me that this woman now controls his social media account and monitors his messages as well. He has become a spineless husk of a man.
A friend of mine, who has never met them, says that she’s a “human succubus.”
Since January, I have been throwing everything I can think of at her. And getting a mixed bag of results.
The best thing I accomplished was the hot foot spell. Combined with the absolute chaos she caused, the two things have ensured a big ego blow and now she has tucked her tail and wants as little to do with the group as possible. She is looking to spend more time out of town.
The blowback of the hot foot spell is that she’s taking him away too. He isn’t allowed to be around us without her being there. A man that has spent the better part of almost two years building this group of friends. People that genuinely cared about him, until he aligned himself with her, and gave him a safe space to be himself. He hasn’t yet finalized his divorce and he hasn’t had even a minute of freedom. If he goes with her now, the others are already saying that he’s not welcome back in the future.
This is a serious problem. Time is running out. I have tried everything to get her to give him up, including sending her an amazing job opportunity and better romantic partners. But she just cheats on him, and took the job, and now will cheat on him even more.
Nothing I’ve done seems to be a match for how much she enjoys having total power and control over him.
Help me create a plan of attack.