Originally Posted by
choublak 
My take on the whole "acting nice" thing, narcissists will use it later on to manipulate. It's just another tool for their toolbox.
So true! Their "generosity" comes with major strings attached!
My ex works as an apartment maintenance manager, so he was given a free apartment. We agreed that he would live somewhere else, and me and our son would live in the apartment. Well, I lived there less than a month when he came into the apartment at 4AM in the morning while he was *very* drunk. (He used his master key to get in.) I began looking for another apartment, and I moved as quickly as a could. But of course, my ex now pretends that incident never happened and he wrote in his court declaration that he provided a free apartment for me and our son, so of course he must be a fit parent.
He recently told me, "I don't know what world you live in, it must be a fairy tale world where everywhere is perfect." I guess for narcissists, knowing that other people have a conscience is actually like a "fairy tale."