Indeed. I have personal experience with a covert narcissist, my father, and he is so good at his false image as the sensitive victim that he has fooled my mother for almost 60 years and I didn't see through him until almost 2 years ago a couple of months after my spiritual awakening. https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/why-i-canceled-my-father-bcb60831ee35