Encountering a narcissist can present a range of challenges and leave you feeling emotionally drained and manipulated. When that person is a close relative or romantic partner, the issues compound. “If you’ve had a narcissist in your life, you probably felt that you didn’t have a voice,” Virginia Gilbert , a licensed marriage and family therapist, told HuffPost. “In extreme cases, you may not know who you are apart from the narcissist because everything you did was about accommodating them.”