This is also how you get a romantic relationship and friendships: you stop being uptight about everything and treat the other as a stranger, and start being more relaxed with bounderies reserved for strangers.
A lost art today, where narcisism is "everybody else is toxic" and boundaries for everything is the norm.
Narcissist do very well with and around people without boundaries. The contact with a narcissist is exactly the situation where you need them the most.
Also, in fact, you can have friends and boundaries. If you cant, you need therapy.
A lost art today, where narcisism is "everybody else is toxic" and boundaries for everything is the norm.