dynamics and sheds light on the damaging impact narcissists have on their partners and children. This is also workbook with strategies that can improve your self-esteem and help you maintain your self-respect and set boundaries in relationships with addicts, narcissists, or emotionally abusiv...
We all live with the consequences of poor parenting. However, if our childhoods were traumatic, we carry wounds from abusive ordysfunctional parenting. We may not recognize it as such. It feels familiar and normal. We may be indenialand not realize that we’ve been abused emotionally, partic...
To the people posting about their abusive family members, narcissism is rife in our culture. It’s not personal. Focus back on yourselves, self care and get on with your lives after going no or minimal contact. You’re enough as you are. Happy Christmas everyone! Midgie Thompson says 7 y...
I’ve been in a relationship for 6 years with a man who claims to be a Christian but is emotionally abusive. I have remained “silent in love” and it has done nothing to improve matters. It has only robbed me of all of my joy to the point that I only want to die & be with ...
One or more of their caregivers were abusive physically and verbally. When future womanizers were children, they felt powerless, frightened, unloved, poor, frightened and determined to never be a victim again. Remember that scene in the movie,Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett raises her fist ...
Know the tricks: Dark Triad types feel powerful when they “starve” people physically, emotionally, financially, intellectually, and spiritually. One trick is to show intense admiration and interest in someone for a few hours or days and then suddenly disappear, leaving the victim with an agonizi...
One or more of their caregivers were abusive physically and verbally. When future womanizers were children, they felt powerless, frightened, unloved, poor, frightened and determined to never be a victim again. Remember that scene in the movie,Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett raises her fist ...