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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
And if you think children are guaranteed to be carbon copies of their parents, right down to negative traits, I don’t know what to tell you.
My mother is a full-blown narcissist who has never thought about anyone but herself for a moment of her life. Even my dad’s death earlier this year is all about her. She has told me multiple times that her grief is more than my grief and she doesn’t seem to understand why I haven’t reorganized my life to make it about her instead of my wife and young children.
I’m nothing like her. Most kids who escape a parent with toxic traits strive to be their exact opposite. I sure as **** do.
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Wait, we have the same mom? Weird.
Mine couches her narcissism in a thin veneer of selflessness.
I’m agreeing with you, for the record.