Having a child changes you – unless, that is, you are a Narcissist. (Nothing changes a Narcissist.) “Having a child, my mother often said, “requires you to become selfless.” My mother did – and didn’t – have a point.
Having a child opens your eyes to your own childhood
Having a child requires you put another […]
Emotional abuse creates a deep sense of loss. It takes you into an acutely painful place of exclusion. It leads you to look at the rest of the world and see everyone else as other than you. Other in the sense of happier and more blessed. From where you are standing, that feels horribly real […]
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again.” said Robert the Bruce, allegedly. On the strength of that pronouncement, Robert sounds a likely candidate for patron saint of victims of emotional and narcissistic abuse. The strategy of all abuse victims is to keep trying harder. But what are the contraindications? What are […]
What makes it so hard to let go of an abusive, Narcissistic partner? Where do you find an answer that makes sense to the abused partner and the concerned onlooker? Love is the most commonly cited “reason”. But is that really accurate? Do people really love the partner who abuses them?
When pressed, the abused partner […]
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