An inverted narcissist or covert narcissist is a co-dependent who emotionally depends exclusively on classic narcissists (narcissist-co-dependent).

Inverted narcissists crave to be with a narcissist, regardless of the abuse inflicted on them. They actively seek to have relationships with narcissists and only with narcissists, no matter how bitter and traumatic their past experience had been. They feel empty and unhappy in relationships with non-narcissists.

They depend on narcissists for their emotional gratification and for the performance of Ego or daily functions. They are needy, demanding, and submissive. They fear abandonment (suffer from abandonment anxiety), cling and display immature behaviours in their effort to maintain the relationship with their narcissistic companion or mate upon whom they depend.

References

• The Inverted Narcissist