Yes, and you wrote it more succinctly than I did in a sibling comment. :) The specific problem as I understand it: marrying/dating a narcissist will spiral int

Yes, and you wrote it more succinctly than I did in a sibling comment. :) The specific problem as I understand it: marrying/dating a narcissist will spiral into utter toxicity 100% of the time. In that case the protagonist's difficulty separating reality from their own subject experience isn't something abstract to reflect upon. It's instead something akin to an evil demon charming them to butter them up for abuse which is made permanent through eternal gaslighting.