7 Reasons Why a Narcissist Doesn't Love Their Children

Children who grow up in a home with a narcissistic parent often experience significant damage. If you're a child of a narcissistic parent, then this video is for you.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:35 1.narcissistic parents show affection for public approval
02:46 2.Idealization of the toddler stage
04:00 3.They love the control and compliance
05:01 4.Their love is very conditional
05:55 5.They utilise children as leverage
07:14 6.you are used to display a perfect family image
08:28 7.They exercise favoritism and create a rift
09:10 Conclusion

[@rocksolid6494]

The narcisistic parent demands that you love them while treating you like shit. They would not understand why you hate them. It is all your fault.

[@mimiham6194]

That was my M-I-L. But my mother was worse. Went NC and have absolutely no regrets. They’re both deceased and I’m still healing from both of them. I hope you’re healing too.

[@gaywizard2000]

Yes!

[@sharylanne7738]

💯 stated!

[@Justice_TRUTH_Martyr]

*Coward User Name !!!*

[@alexzingo6952]

Yes, you are right!

[@DocLucy]

I remember sitting between my arguing parents each saying (about me) “I don’t want her” “I don’t want her, either” during their divorce. Needless to say how this impacted my self-esteem, poor relationship choices and fear/avoidance-based decisions MY ENTIRE LIFE. I’m now 60 and am reclaiming my life. MY life. This channel helps so much! 🙏

[@BrittMalka]

Woah! That must have been so tough to hear from them.

[@TamaraGarrettAlpha]

Absolutely disgusting of them. 😢. Im sorry this happened buy glad that you are choosing to make YOU happy now. ❤

[@movingonandup322]

Wow... The level of cruelity is astonishing. As if you didn't even exist or matter in any way. It was all about them being disgusting and broken, and was not at all about you not being lovable. That was never the case. It takes so long to fully own that it was their brokenness all along, not yours. I'm still working on this and hoping my subconscious mind gets this. I'm still trying my hardest to heal but it's so hard. I'm so sorry your parents did that to you. I wish you full healing and wholeness.

[@JanGlow]

My mother said something similar about myself and my brother to my father during an argument. I think some people just shouldn’t have children

[@latinamama1982]

I am so sorry, I went through that, and still so sometimes with different situation. I am so glad you are able to live your life now. I am 41 and trying to also. Please know that you are so very loved. Lots of love to you! ❤❤❤

[@DesertSessions93]

Instead of being upset about how garbage my parents are, I'm going to focus on making sure I don't turn out the same way.

[@seasonsstarsstudios]

That’s actually a terrible idea, and I’ll tell you why. You have to understand: you have the right to be angry. Feel what you feel. Suppressing your emotions is only going to harm yourself and others far more than you can imagine. The butterfly effect is very real. I know from experience; I took that exact path and I hurt people I loved so much. I lashed out because I wasn’t expressing how much I was actually hurting. I wasn’t allowing myself to feel the anger, hurt, and betrayal I felt. You have every right to mourn the death of parental love you never received. Let your wounds get some air so they can heal. Only then will you not be like them. After all, anger isn’t a negative emotion by itself; it’s how you use it. Anger is a powerful motivator for change, but only when you allow yourself to feel it and steer it in the right direction. Hard, but possible.

[@thethe8955]

Same also the guy above me has his way to deal with this. Knowing how history repeats itself my mother was/is a severely damaged child too. I'm not sure if she loves me but I want to

[@ozzyinphilly]

THE IDEALIZATION OF THE TODDLER STAGE. My jaw is on the floor. This is all my mom. “You were so fun when you were little.” She only loved me until I could think for myself.

[@kamarbazarek6460]

Yeah,me too!!! I was always told “ you were so cute - as a little girl”, like I’m some kind of monster now. ( I’m 70 and so called father is 90 ) I’ve been away from him for 30 years- now I’ve got to take care of him 😣😣😣😣😤😤😤😤. My parents divorced when I was 4 yrs old - my mom took my brother ( 2 yrs younger & handicapped) with her & left me with the asshole. **** I don’t fault her - I’m glad she took my brother away from this monster!!! ( my brother became handicapped because he was thrown against a hot radiator - trying to protect mom from the monster. ). I tried running away at 6 yrs, 8 yrs, 12 years & finally at 18 - legally I could. When I left at 12 years, I tried to get into the house to get something to eat - the locks were changed. I slept in a neighbors garage - under their boat. Went to school - eventually he was arrested for child endangerment. I saw him again at 21 & 44 years. Now - ALL that trauma haunts me - having to return to live in that f’en house. He has no friends - just a few students that admire him. I’m relying on” the grace of God” to get me thru this “ shit-show “. Not only do I have to deal with the monster - but also 3 squatters that he allowed to live there - *** they’re finally out, but all their crap is in the basement. “Arg “...." I certainly don’t need this at my age.... I hope the loser dies soon

[@Golf2foto]

„I was so obsessed with you back then.“ 😒

[@KimmersIMJ]

Exactly. As you get older it all starts to increase the criticism and pain and rejection. The control is suffocating.

[@LouisaWatt]

And they keep trying to treat their adult children like toddlers regardless of how old they get

[@whirlhoof5117]

This is my sister with both of her kids and my NARC ex with his daughter (16 now ) and has no use for her she is closer to me than him. And when we met, my youngest, my daughter was 4 and for a few years he "adored" her especially to my family and his family and friends. She is almost 11, and we recently finally split and he's barely interacted with her the last 3 years. They are both evil ( my sister and my ex).😢

[@laurelmarshall6903]

My parents didn't love me unconditionally.. I felt it.

[@frederickcollins4534]

We are more educated, now about this age old tragedy of shame they downplayed and turned into history repeating on us. I look at the reasons and try to forgive. Forgive in the name of modern therapy. To no avail. We are more educated in modern times about how wrong using and abusing people has become. No! We ar bigger and better than that stupidity that has ruined so many people. We can love unconditionally like the buddhist says. The less control you try to have, the more ability to change you will have. To say, break the history and love better as you wish to be loved and if it is not reciprocated, you are not loving the person you need. Move on, and find the one who loves you for your whole worth.

[@mercedessanchez6844]

We all do. But then, we learn to love ourselves

[@happyhealthyblessed]

Me too friend me too I’m so sorry

[@shamanoftruth4699]

Same here

[@ashkisten3111]

I'm sending you a BIG warm hug and tons of love. I feel your pain by your words. You sound like a sweet., sensitive, lovely person who deserves to be loved to bits and pieces❤❤❤

[@rasaperkunas1722]

It’s a curse I would not wish on my enemies. Love and light to all survivors 🙏🏻✨

[@user-yc2ic2lv5h]

Thank you friend I'm one of them 😢

[@user-jw4zr8qh7g]

Me too. From birth, until for about a year ago (I'm 60 years old now), I was surrounded ONLY by narcissists and psychopaths. It's incredible what I survived, and that I survived without being brain damaged.

[@IMWeira]

Same here I got away when I saw what they were doing to my son.

[@flonkplonk1649]

@@IMWeirain most cases it's the mother

[@otiliamanuelajurj]

My father is this.

[@elaineinarizona6354]

I once tape recorded how my mother (the matriarch of our clan) spoke to me whenever we were alone. I played it back to family who hadn’t previously believed me. Everyone FROZE for 10 seconds and then went back to their conversation as if nothing happened! It was like their brains said, cannot compute so ignore what you just heard. I realized many things at that point in time.

[@mapschon3018]

We are all surrounded by enablers 💔

[@skinnyway]

they went on like nothing happened because they are all narcissists or enablers. a lot of us have families that are all narcissists.

[@Stigmatix666]

I once had an argument with my narcissistic mother. She would accuse me and say the most horrible things to me. Then I simply parrotted her word for word, straight back in her face. She flipped her shit and said "How can you talk to people like that?!" I simply replied "Those were literally your own words to me." She was lost for words, but then she started screaming. Suddenly my grandmother walked in and said "You two shouldn't be in the same room.." No, my grandmother is not a narcissistic, she's the only one in the family who actually supports me, the black sheep

[@Mermaid404]

YEP this is my family!

[@Grassmonster3]

A lot of family members are uncomfortably aware but say nothing because they don't want to come under fire themselves. Either you go along with the naricissist or you are their enemy. There's no middle ground to the narcissist.

[@wm17959]

I'm 64 years old and my mother still does this stuff. She will never stop. She will never see me as an intelligent, independent person.

[@Chris-2-of-3]

Should have gone no contact years ago. Just saying.

[@allicovington]

You’re right. She never will. Can you emotionally shut her out?

[@elizabethtowers3321]

HI, right there with you. I'm sixty one years old and my mother will never change either. She refuses to recognize any achievements I"ve made in my life and actually expected me to move back home to take care of her, disrupt my entire life for her, even after finding out I had a heart attack and need help myself. By the way, I"m the scapegoat and she "can't stand" me. My sister, the golden child, is an RN and lives about fifteen minutes away from our mom. I live several states away from them ( on purpose) Bless you and me for all we have been through emotionally with these narcissists.

[@michellebazin7988]

I have found, also a a survivor and as a professional who treats narcissistic abuse, that when you cannot get away from the parent for whatever reason, I work to predict the behavior. We talk in sessions about doing a game or even a bingo card about what the narcissistic parent is going to say, usually at family events. Predicting the behavior allows us to separate from the negative, narcissistic comments and lessen their emotional impact. Hope this can help you.

[@allicovington]

@@michellebazin7988 that’s a fantastic idea!! 🙌🏻

[@duchessdelarue5983]

I was raised by 2 narcissists. I was never hugged, never told “I love you”, never encouraged or supported. I never felt loved and never got any affection whatsoever. Only criticism and put downs. They really broke me. Same thing when I married my narcissist husband. I am finally realizing this and how I disassociate from life. I’m finally trying to heal.

[@mayflower6819]

Me too, so similar to yours….thank u…i am not the only one suffering…

[@davidmiller1055]

PLEASE DON'T LET THEM BREAK YOU ANYMORE!!! YOU ARE LOVED AND APPRECIATED QUEEN!!

[@adriennerose9319]

You just told my story. You are not alone.

[@spacebarzzz860]

I’m sorry. For what it’s worth I’ll be ur dad. I have experience raising a 2 y/o daughter thru 50/50 coparenting. All you gotta put up with us lectures, chores n dad jokes. Other than that you’ll get all the love, support, n hopefully something in common we can share ^_^

[@puppyupper4565]

I was raised by a narcissist mother but my dad was so beaten down by her verbal skills, that he would beat me at her will. I never got hugs either. I was the black sheep of the family because I was born a sigma male. I do not accept hierarchy that is imposed. That is why they hated me but, even with the beatings, I grew stronger each day because I am INTJ-A sigma. You need to get out of your marriage if still in it. Those people are broken and have no path to wholesomeness apart from Jesus but they don't see themselves in need. My mom claims to be a christian, yet once said to me "you crucify me more than Christ was crucified." That is blasphemy and an utter lack of any kind of understanding of her own need for Christ. Run away. I am able to deal with my mom because since I little I saw her as broken. My grandmother would give me hugs and no beatings. So, it was clear how broken she was, even to a 5 year old boy.

[@thisisme3238]

I was raised in a narcissist family. You have no identity of your own, and when you try to create your own identity....all hell breaks loose. Thanks for your video. 👍🇺🇲

[@manavdeepyuvrev7131]

So true.

[@YouilAushana]

Yep, such a horrible thing

[@robinjessop6607]

You sure nailed it!❤

[@mikeexits]

Daniel Mackler has a lot of great valuable insight on these things too.

[@lucialuciferion6720]

When my father died I was broken for a year. After two years I felt much better , and now after 9 years I don't miss him. Not at all. Which I think is kinda strange, but maybe he had narcisstic traits . He was a very dominating personality. He would start arguements at dinner time (I hated sitting down for dinner with him present). He would be in charge of my finances, even into adult hood. I was not working, and as far as I remember when I was 15-16 trying to get (temporary) jobs I would receive criticism from my parents about the way I dressed, the way my hair was styled, too much makeup etc when heading to interviews . He would also complain if talked about wanting to go work in a flower shop (not my daughter) . My sense was that it shamed him. I never ended up working , ended up on disability and my dad took over my accounts (which he had set up when I was early 20s). I did end up being a perpetual student as I was raised believing that only the highest degrees possible are worth it. I felt worthless while I had no degrees, and now with a MS I still feel worthless. I don't remember ever having a face to face converstation with him where I felt like an equal. It was more like being called in to talk to the boss at work. Off course he never said he loved me , but that could have been his generation. He also never hugged me, unless told to do so by my mom. Ended up very akward hugging. My mom is more gentle but maybe to the point where you are expected to protect and take care of her. I feel like I never gained independance. Now at 50 I'm still living in a house they bought for me and my brother, my brother also still doesn't work . I just feel my life is wasted from the start. But I'm still not convinced they are( and were) narcs just too controlling. They did like to treat us like 5 year olds still to this day. I think it also stems from a sense of being needed. My world will collapse if anything were to ever happen to my mom. Is that trauma bonding? She is loving in private . So I think it's just narc traits . Which most of us display probably.

[@Event-pw2ks]

I was never loved by my mother. She was distant and cold. As a child, I always wondered what I did to make her hate me…. a very sad and disfuncional state of being

[@clake8931]

Same with my Dad, he hated me, I had no idea why I deserved to be hated ! I was a wonderful child according to my Mother.

[@CkretSkwerl]

Omg!!!!! This is my childhood . Each item is precisely how I grew up. NEVER understand what was true and what was false. My mother would take one side on an issue in public and the complete opposite at home. So confusing we all walked on eggshells around her. She seemed always angry. She was an expert at shaming me and mocking and making fun of me. She absolutely crushed me to my core. I did not find out she was narcissistic til I was 45. Years and years of therapy did not help a whole lot. My professional life was good. I educated myself, went to college. Personal life was a wreck. I have never recovered. I am 75 yrs old now and still suffer. She ruined my life and stole it from me. Too late for me now. I cried when I read this because it is EXACTLY how my mother was

[@klsliter7462]

You are still alive. Don’t let her steal the rest of the time you have left! Do what you want, what you can, what you THINK you can, and do not care what the others might say. You still have life left. Take it back.

[@Matldathestrong]

I can understand what you have been through, the pain is always there and you always wonder how your life would be different if you were raised by a normal parent… I know it’s harder now but try to do whatever you loved to do as a young person or child to bring joy to your life

[@ThomasAllan-up4td]

Know how it feels.

[@nadinewhite993]

I think a lot of people in the pathway of narcissists (like children) begin to train themselves not to feel the pain. It can take multiple decades to get good at it but I do believe it helps because it frees the mind and emotions to explore and enjoy life. It's like cutting the anchor loose and sailing away.

[@arielplays5629]

Through Christ there is still hope and a peace

[@abeeha115]

I feel like society normalizes narcissistic parents too. Each time I've talked about the following points I am met with the idea that "oh, but they are your parents and it's like that sometimes." The gaslighting goes beyond the immediate family structure it seems.

[@spaideman7850]

thats because they don't know how severe their narcissistic level was. everybody has some level of narc in them, its whether mild or severe. those severe could never do self-reflection.

[@Jemuzu1996]

Oh I forgot your privileged and it’s like that sometimes 😂

[@amarbyrd2520]

YES, IT DOES. It's one of the reasons it's such a frustrating conundrum when therapists and other people who really are trying to be helpful practically shout at us "YOU MUST FIND SUPPORT!!" but when other people outside the family gaslight us like that -- where the h*** are we supposed to find that support???

[@dawn1913]

@@spaideman7850 that's not true no matter how often it is repeated. Not EVERYONE is narcissistic to some degree and it's just the "level" of narcissism. Narcissists prey on those of us who possess no narcissistic traits. We're their ideal person.

[@danielkaiser8971]

The difference between "having narcissistic traits sometimes" and "being a narcissist" is that the traits are nearly always based on some triggering context, without which the person is getting along otherwise, perhaps for years. This does not make the person a narcissist. A narcissist is someone whose behaviors are always, always, always narcissistic as to form an adult lifetime of consistent patterns, often getting worse with age. To say everyone has some level of narcissism is essentially saying everyone is a narcissist, and this is not correct.

[@Nick-dg3fk]

I could never ever call or text my mom about a problem im having without her making the situation completely about herself.

[@user-lw3ri8us4w]

yes…!

[@raimeyewens7518]

Yes!!!!!

[@Portia620]

Normals for a personality disorder.

[@joseenoel8093]

Weirdest thing, they can't give of themselves!

[@rosemarythyme8595]

Same!!!

[@sarahcolwell6024]

My mom hated me and had my dad and brothers pile on. When I showed artistic talent early on and people would give me art supplies, she threw them away and wouldn't let me take art classes in school. When I was sick or injured, she wouldn't take me to the doctor, but my brother was rushed to the clinic for the slightest ailment. I walked on broken bones and, when I my brother knocked me over in a bike race and I was gravely injured with a TBI and bleeding wounds, she told the neighbors who had rescued me from the street and taken me home in their car, "Don't bring her in the house: she'll get blood on the carpet." It's a nightmare to grow up like this. I rebelled inside and made my own life, but the pissed off, suicidal 4 year-old terrorized little girl is still her with me. Thanks so much.

[@tiffanyvang1085]

So sad to learn about your stories. God bless you.

[@ypcomchic]

You need to care for that 4 year old in order to heal yourself.

[@kaushikaushis]

I feel you 😢 I have a narcissistic mother too .. peace to you❤🎉

[@bradlybradshaw5972]

Every word is so true! I'm now 67, my mom always called me an "idiot". At 18 I left, paid for my college with money id saved,. It was a community college, $150 a semester, ( i had saved money from numerous jobs i had during high school from picking apples in an orchard to mowing lawns and working washing dishes in a restaurant, and a summer working in a shoe factory) The college was a 2 year program, 4 semesters, for a AA degree in business management. This was 1975. My mom said, " your not going you have no money", I said i have the money and i went. I year latter I moved out. My father always agreed with her. That"s the tip of the ice burg. It was a rough start.

[@_Renee2]

I have come to the conclusion that my mother never loved me. My siblings and I grew up never receiving hugs. When we got older and she tried to hug us it was awkward and cold. The years of projection, gaslighting, and physical/verbal abuse. I feel like I’ve been robbed of years of my life. She manipulated lied and caused so much confusion and turmoil in my home. Yet, I still love her. I was groomed and trained to be a mom before my time. In essence I became the parent to my mom and I am relearning that she is not my responsibility.

[@beemonroe4330]

Good for you ❤

[@calvarez519]

You speak for many, I'm sure. Thanks for putting it into such a direct and sussinct way. Many parents, of course, we're raised the same way. I'm not sure if they had the tools in the past to understand what was being done to them so they could possibly prevent the nonsense from being passed on. I'm glad we can heal.

[@keithstewart7514]

Scapegoat here of WHOM had been programmed by the Narcopathetic Parent management systems. This GOAT Escaped less than a year ago...😮

[@JoannA-sweetly]

You were robbed. I’ve learned by God’s grace to pick up the pieces….. I am free, can recognize narcissists and got healing.❤️🎉

[@paula681912]

Interesting

[@martharyniak7990]

Never in my life has anybody so perfectly described my family. I was the scapegoat and the truth teller. It was brutal. Thank you for the clarity.

[@nicoleeppinger3562]

I am the truth teller too! They can't handle the truth though.

[@immazaldibar5407]

Me too, still fighting

[@athena3865]

Same.

[@misterx3188]

Same.

[@AlienChicken]

I grew up hearing "you used to be so cute, idk what happened" or "we found ya in the trash pile (burn pile) i r3alized when i was older it was a joke because my white mom had belizian dark skinned kids and then had to move back to her American home town. So they were joking I was burnt. So many narcs in my family and mom is the golden child, not a narc, but so traumatized she totally dissociates and she also chose to be with a physically abusive and angry narc throughout my childhood from age 7 and for my whole life after :(

[@seonaidoriada1013]

Boy, is this 💯% correct! I grew up with a narcissistic mother and this describes my hellious upbringing just exactly. Narcissists don’t have the capacity for love because it’s always only about themselves.

[@Wft-bu5zc]

My dad's "love" was ONLY about how anything good we've done reflects on HIM. He cares only for himself. He would even brag about what major we chose ("I convinced them!") how we did well in school because HE helped us and HE'S smart and we're his kids. It was always, always, always about him. Even the rare times he calls us for our birthdays he 99% talks about himself. "Happy Birthday! I've been so busy, I'm doing amazing stuff at work everyone loves me, blah blah blah."

[@seonaidoriada1013]

@@Wft-bu5zc SMH. Unbelievable how these people are.

[@ibnenkigalileo9256]

Brilliant video. It’s about my mother from A to Z. When I was 16/17 I visited a girlfriend of mine’s home and I met her mother and for the first time in my life I found out what a REAL loving parent felt like. Back then it was a mind blowing experience and also a very depressing realisation.

[@realjcoop182]

My mom literally sabotaged my green card and told me she was glad to do it. The worst part is I married a woman like her and didn't know it till it was too late. I escaped my marriage mostly unscathed. She sabotaged my green card too. Now I'm forty, moms passed and I'm divorced rebuilding my life. I have zero tolerance for any type of toxic or narcissistic behaviors

[@jenmayo777]

Good for you! I'm proud of you!

[@realjcoop182]

@@jenmayo777 I'm grateful for the kind words. Life isn't stable at the level I'd like but I'm working towards it. Your good energy lends momentum and transformations to help with the goal. Thank you.

[@Sometimesseven]

Holy shit bro my mother did the same thing Instead of helping me get my green card as a young kid She choose to pay 10k for her boyfriend green card He left her and not together anymore I left the house at 17 and I’m 27 haven’t talked to her in 10years 💕

[@imjustsam1745]

@@realjcoop182 the world is your's to do with what you will. It helps to remind ourselves after living for other people so long. You got brothers out here you'll never meet that love you and want you to be happy.

[@thegracetofollow4194]

Good

[@darrynreid4500]

When they tell you they love you, what they really mean is they have a very long list of detailed requirements for you to unconditionally comply with.

[@recoveringsoul755]

Yessss

[@chriscampbell6272]

I agree. I love you really means I love what you can do I for us.

[@chriscampbell6272]

And I "love you" when it suits us when it doesn't suit us then we don't care about you.

[@elizabethmadron1336]

My father was a vocational high school teacher. He came home every day and took a nap for two hours. Me and my golden child brother had to be quiet for 2 hours. Then dinner. Then he read the paper after dinner. If you needed help with homework forget it. It was soon time to go to bed. See how he made himself emotionally unavailable to us. I just had this conversation with his cousin's wife. Last night. She tried to make excuses and said he had a bad childhood. His parents were narcs. That is no excuse. He denied me tutoring when I was failing Algebra in the 7th grade which later cause me to fail Algebra in college. He physically abused me. Pulling 4 of my bottom teeth out with pliers at age 5.My teeth had long roots on them. He was a failed oral surgeon. He did not have a license to practice. He was a dental assistant and had actually dropped out of the program at the time. My mother allowed all of this craziness She was a narc to. I could have bled to death. I should have been taken to a dentist.

[@recoveringsoul755]

@@elizabethmadron1336 OMG!!! Baby teeth?? WTH?!? That's horrifying and nobody helped you!! That's traumatizing just to read I will never understand people who deliberately hurt a child. Those kinds of thoughts never cross my mind

[@patrickmcmillan6444]

Thank you for making this video! Your descriptions of how a narcissist parent uses her children and seems to be fueled by the tension and hatred she fosters between siblings. Unfortunately, but weirdly fortunately I knew at an extremely young age I was different because my mother allowed and encouraged my elder brother to bully me before I could even walk or talk. It got worse and worse as we got older. At 10 I begged the Children's Aid Society to get me out, but to no avail. It then became unbearable at 15 when I left home. I knew I broke the cycle when I became a dad, because the love I have for my 2 sons is the only true feeling of love I've ever had. Over the past 45 yrs, 30 of which I lived in a different country, I've tried several times to repair relationships with my family, yet not a single thing has changed. My emotional life had been a mess for most of my life until I knew I was going to be a dad. Ended up becoming an author of an emotional literacy book for kids and a parenting coach. There is hope for us black sheeps!😊

[@ylva571]

“Children are placed in the centre of adult issues. They become the therapist. They become the mediator…” this describes my childhood to terrible perfection. The wedding anniversary of my (both deceased) parents just passed. It is still a traumatic day. My narcissistic mother placed all her failed expectations of my father into me and my sister. I realise now how incredibly inappropriate it all was. Hugs to you all. Thank you Danish. I have just come across your channel. It’s very accurate… very healing.

[@ArchAngel435]

How did your mother place all her failed expectations of her husband on you and your sister? I am estranged from my borderline husband of 26 yrs and I hope that I haven't done the same to my children

[@margaretclark9016]

Absolutely true. My ex-mother-in-law only loves my ex-husband for what he can do for her. She loves to brag on him being a Doctor. She says “people can’t believe I raised a doctor.” I want to tell her she is wrong on that, she raised a son that became a cheating, abusive husband and father. Medical school made him a doctor.

[@carriecree1789]

I'm sure she would mention something to take credit for the medical school, like she paid for it. And blame your actions on pushing him to cheat, and provoking him to abuse, etc. They never have accountability when someone else is negatively impacted by their actions.

[@sandraderendy2134]

She raised a jerk who made it thru med school and continued to be a jerk.

[@Crackrocksteady]

Cheating is common in the medical field

[@heidi681]

That must have been horrible. Sending you wishes for lots of love and hugs in your life.❤

[@namitasubhash632]

​@@CrackrocksteadyNo it's not

[@snowstormonsat]

I'm in tears reading all these comments, mostly from people my age (older than 50) and how it impacted our lives. We grew up not knowing what was wrong with them and how it caused so much pain and destruction in our lives. I pray that each and every one of us can heal and spread love in this cruel world.

[@djafo14]

😢

[@marka.8535]

We just thought it was normal to be neglected, punished, beaten and abused. 9:58

[@dreamgaits]

The world is not cruel but some people are. Choose your own "family" through healthy friends and abandon those who abuse you, regardless of "blood" relations.

[@amybloom3665]

Wanted to say I'm 38. But I don't know anyone like me. Interesting

[@Preppy-pink98]

Amen..it's not a life sentence

[@poogissploogis]

My jaw dropped when you mentioned the toddler stage part, I've been searching everywhere for someone to touch on this! My mother was obsessed with me as a toddler, but as soon as I started developing some independence and my own sense of self, she very quickly shifted over to grooming me to give her grandchildren. As young as 8 years old she would tell me how excited she was to be next to me when I give birth, she'd try to pair me up with boys, and she would touch my stomach and breasts inappropriately when she would talk about me having a baby. For years I was that girl that was vehemently against having children to overcompensate for the pressure she put on me. She just made me feel so gross about it, and imagining her reaction to me announcing a pregnancy made me sick to my stomach. I still feel uncomfortable touching my own stomach in front of people because of her. My cousins who are all older than me have all been starting their families in the last few years and she immediately flew out to see their babies. The pictures she sent back of her holding them made me sick, you could just see it in her eyes that they're toys to her. She constantly sends me pictures of my cousins' babies, I can tell she's living vicariously through her brother who's getting to enjoy grandfatherhood. I don't want her anywhere near my future children, she does not deserve to be the beloved grandma that she wants to be and I will not give it to her. If anyone else has had a similar experience I would be delighted to hear it! I don't often hear of others with this specific experience.

[@AB6731]

Both of my parents have gotten nasty and demanding of me about when I'm going to give them grandchildren. I've never wanted kids, BUT they never wanted us kids around except when we made them look good. How are they entitled to tell me what to do with my body and life, especially after how they treated me growing up? I told them to go bother my sister. She's the one who said she wanted kids and got married.... but she is a nasty narcissist herself, and came to realize that she would have a hard time putting herself first if she had kids. Instead, she's basically "baited" a girl from a local trailer park with gifts and such, now to the point that she makes the kid call her "Mom". The kid's own mom had a history of some drug use and I think a felony, but even though she has allowed her kid to stay with my sister and her husband and such, that doesn't make her my sister's child. It's especially sickening when she brings the kid to our elderly parents house and the kid has to call our parents Grandma and Grandpa- it is nothing but manipulation because my sister wants EVERYTHING when our parents pass. The trailer park girl is just a pawn in her nasty game.... and she learned that kind of behavior from our parents...

[@poogissploogis]

@@AB6731 Oh man that's rough, your sister sounds like a complete nightmare! I totally relate to you though about your parents only wanting you around when it's convenient for them. My mother isn't a super mean nasty type of narcissist, but she very clearly only sees children as shiny toys to play with and she gets bored once they start displaying autonomy and personality. It makes me sick to my stomach to imagine letting her have that grandma fantasy when she's done so horribly as a mother. She doesn't deserve it.

[@TheRightQuestionsLeft]

I think it's common. 'The happiest years of my life were when you were little.' She's recently given up on her psychologist as she thought she could get me sectioned for refusing to do as I'm told at 43! She's now obsessed with trying to get my child removed from my care. Absolute monster.

[@lucillejerome5511]

Are you sure this wasn't an ethnic thing? Some Europeans hope for or expect large families, and that's the norm - aa woman to be married with family. Here, though: independence and growing out of our backgrounds while respecting it is the norm with or without marriage. Just trying to figure this out using culture as part of the background to the answer.

[@mayamartin7359]

I did not experience the severe pushiness around grandchildren from her (although I did from her father, my grandfather, starting at age 13) although I knew she wanted them. But, I was constantly compared to my 2yo self. She constantly bragged on my younger self to anyone who would listen. Worse, anytime I didn’t know something, or didn’t do it right, the constant refrain was ‘but you knew this when you were 2!’ I grew to be very resentful of my 2yo self. It seemed to me that I sure must have had my life together as a toddler 😂 far more than was realistic for a toddler to do or know.

[@aliasagentsecret360]

This video is extremely accurate and spot on. When I was a kid, I used to have this friend that was very intelligent. She noticed that my parents wouldn’t let me have any identity but I as a child, wouldn’t agree to see it for what it was. As time passed, being an adolescent I started developing my own sense of self and all hell went lose. They implanted the thought in my mind that I was being rebellious because of that one friend. I now understand with therapy that they seemed like healthy and loving parents just because I was agreeable. They were never that way, it just uncovered itself when I became a bit older

[@anacardinale5769]

It has taken me 66 years to realize how much I have been abused by my mother and my siblings, her golden children. Nobody sees what I have been through but as you say, I have to live in my own truth...I have to keep myself distant as much as possible..

[@bettyhibbert3340]

I'm 66 years old, my father is narcissistic .

[@anacardinale5769]

@@bettyhibbert3340 so sorry to hear that. The damage these parents cause lasts a lifetime, at least in my case.

[@lisawilliams5107]

I did the same thing my mom is narcissistic too.

[@MsMaryPatricia]

The golden child will never admit it because that would mean that they have to admit that they are not special and just treated better and it's unfair. They probably see the difference in treatment but justify it in that the scapegoat deserves it and they deserve to be treated better because of how amazing and wonderful they are. My brother was a golden child and thinks he's the best ever. I'm no contact and my life is much less painful.

[@anacardinale5769]

@@MsMaryPatricia I can't believe how many people are living with similar problems to mine. I have 2 brothers and 1 sister: all golden children who could do no wrong. I could do no right. My self esteem and reputation have been trashed by the self righteous mindset of these bullies who will never repent of their wickedness and will never respect me. I am beginning to pick up the broken pieces of my life and start creating a life without them. Unfortunately, I can't make a complete break without hurting other people I truly care about. But, less is more! Less involvement, minimal socialization, expect nothing, set myself FREE and live the best life I can without looking back!

[@cc1k435]

If your parent is a narcissist, you are like an accessory to be shown off. You might as well have been a new purse or pair of shoes. 🙄

[@francesbernard2445]

Yeah. Or instead like a new looking antique car with a life sized life looking doll in it.

[@dawnhoward1268]

I've had two narcissist parents too. I'm 62, just figuring things out the last couple of years. Married a covert. It's rough, struggling everyday.

[@SunnydazeAmore]

I wish i could hug every person who grew up w parents who made them feel unworthy of love. It’s so far from true. and I hope you can find the love within yourself so you can find your person and/or soulmate, whichever you believe in who will never make you doubt yourself or your purpose in this crazy narcissistic world. ❤❤ the evil parents clearly didn’t find it in themselves and so they take it out on their biggest blessings in life which isn’t fair. Be the one to break that cycle!!!

[@hendrikasunqrout571]

I truly thought I was alone in the world living with a Narcissistic mother! It turns out there are thousands and maybe millions of us. I am a 69 year old lady that was used and abused by this " Thing" until I was A shell of a human. Thank you for your insight.

[@oldcrone]

Yup. Mom was a monster. May she rot in hell!

[@snowstormonsat]

You are not alone and I feel your pain.

[@Vid7872]

Have you noticed in the comments it’s mostly about narc mothers?

[@jordan-s]

I remember as a child, in the early years of being a teenager, being uncomfortable with my father's affection, but without realizing why exactly I felt this way. I realized years later that his love was conditional, and that I was uncomfortable with it because it was fake. He doesn't love me; he loves to control me.

[@elizabethshannon24]

Yes, you were uncomfortable because he was a virtual stranger. I'll bet he never got close and played physical games with you - probably never read you a story. My wedding photo describes you and me... the photographer wanted a picture of my dad and me alone. We stood side by side and then he said "look at each other", and I turned but felt myself pull my body back, away from him. In the picture he is standing straight and I am bent, in a real effort to get away from him and be able to look at him in the eyes - so close! My love and thoughts are with you. Have a really happy life, you deserve it.❤

[@SusiQ1220]

I get it. I remember not understanding why I didn’t feel comfortable calling my mother “mom”. I never did because I now realize that she didn’t want to be one. You’re not alone.

[@carlwhitaker7953]

Yes yes yes. I am 52 years old and my son's asked me why out of the 3 family portraits hanging over the stairs the only one my dad is smiling in is the one I am not in. I am the oldest of 8 and only recently learned why I was outcasted from the family. I am definitely the family scapegoat and it extends to my children. So sad. But it is what it is.

[@PrisonPreacher]

@@carlwhitaker7953 WOW! I'm 58... same here!

[@simonandrews4355]

Narcissists don’t make ice cream in unconditional love flavours for their children do they?

[@BeingHuman100]

This is so true. I am an only child. Both my parents are narcissists. I was belittled and used as a scapegoat when a child. The marriage was a deeply unhappy one. I have had many years of therapy and can now accept this. Remember NONE of this is your fault even when they tell you it is. Narcs never take responsibility and never grow up. I went N/C a long time ago. I do love my parents and I forgive them and move on. I keep contact to Christmas and Birthday cards. I am happily married with no children.

[@rnews5750]

You describe my mother and family perfectly. My mother manipulated my father as you describe. He was not a narcissist. Not only is my mother abusive but physically violent as well. She used our eldest sister as you describe to control we other three siblings. For the protection of my family we cut all contact with her over twenty years ago. I have one sister who tells me she has never changed. Stay away from people who are narcissists. They will destroy you if you do not.

[@ArchAngel435]

You don't have to stay away from people with malignant narcissism. Learn to set strong boundaries and quit being a people pleaser like myself. Learn from Marty Glenn, he's the best

[@Vid7872]

Have you noticed most comments are about narc mothers? Doesn’t surprise me one bit. Now, I disbelieve almost everything a woman claims or accuses others of. My survival skill is guilty until proven innocent when it comes to women. It’s a shame but that’s the only way I could through it sanely.

[@CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

Having a "perfect little girl " was what she really loved

[@CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

I had 1 narcissistic parent and the other passed when I was 10 weeks. I'm now on the path of Bhakti Yoga, and I love you, unconditionally. ❤ We all deserved better.🙏

[@narcabusecoach]

It is never easy to be around a narcissistic parent. I am sorry for the loss of the other parent. Sending a lot of love and healing

[@CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

@@narcabusecoach and mine back to you.

[@സത്യഭാമകൃഷ്ണൻ108]

​@@CherrysJubileeJoyfullyHare Krishna 😊he will love you unconditionally .....❤

[@CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

@@സത്യഭാമകൃഷ്ണൻ108 Krishna blesses my heart every day. That is why I can love everyone unconditionally. My love goes out to you as well. 🙏💕

[@lisamariesmith3610]

They conveniently show affection and abuse in public depending upon their mood and who they’re performing for at the time.

[@capriquarius9861]

Yes this! 😢

[@Timenow1]

ESPECIALLY during the Holidays....😢 my BDay is on Christmas Eve but I have not Celebrated it nor Christmas (I miss Tamales) nor New Yrs and my fave.....not even Thanksgiving (I miss Cooking) I have Celebrated these Holidays for x6 yrs It's super lonely but Peaceful

[@lisamariesmith3610]

@@Timenow1 I’m originally from NY and I miss the food too.

[@bahaar2825]

Yes, especially infront of their relatives they don't mind being abusive towards their children.

[@laurabernard2094]

Absolutely!!

[@karlamartinez7238]

THANK YOU for helping us understand! My mother was the same with me & I never understood why, yet I DID subconsciously recognize that it MUST have all been just an "ACT" or a "fake facade" or a "fake script" that they expected us to play in front of others, because we ALWAYS got into trouble if we could NOT "pretend" along with them that our family was SO "happy," while innocent children were secretly being abused. I realized that they did NOT love the family, after they shunned me for addressing the hurtful, dysfunctional, destructive behavior, hoping that we could all work together to FIX it, so that we COULD be a GENUINELY happy family.

[@KimCarter-pd5lk]

Thank you sir. You have opened my eyes to the cause of my mother's inhumane treatment for my entire life. She is also very jealous. You have explained the lies, lack of affection, control issues, and really why i feel unattached & disassociated from her. The attention, the trophy, the use & misuse. In this short presentation of yours, you have summed up my entire life. Unfortunately, we live together. She is still trying to destroy my life. I am going to move out of here & leave her far behind. Thank you for opening my blind eyes! She has been a hideous parent.

[@devpzextra]

Hey girl.are you okay? Praying for you. ​@@Sasha11232

[@tommymack4372]

Im the scapegoat in my family and you described my mother to perfection. Ive given my family up for good. It was the only way to escape the abuse.

[@user-kg3tm7ue1s]

My aunt sneaked through after 2 years of me blocking my mother. She is all for my mum now as her own daughter just discarded her recently. My mother's family are cruel. I had my say with said aunt and now I'm healing all over again after being triggered! It's best to never give them the time of day ever

[@NothingMatterz]

I was also the scapegoat in my family, and after telling my mother to essentially go and F herself after 44 years of straight up abuse and then being ignored, unless she wanted money, I let the healing begin and I’ve never felt BETTER. I would be happy if I knew she was reading this. I hate her with a passion.

[@tommymack4372]

@@user-kg3tm7ue1s your mother's family sounds alot like my mother's family. Sorry u had to go through that it really is horrible. I'm glad u were able to go no contact with them.

[@user-kg3tm7ue1s]

@tommymack4372 Thank you Tommy. Yes, forgiveness is key, but it is best to stay away as it causes you to feel negative and angry and have to start all over again. Sometimes it's best for all involved - love them from a distance and pray their hearts soften 💕

[@cld1416]

same, always treated the blacksheep of the family despite excelling in academics and other stuff, rn im in the middle of academic slump and basically has no motivation to study, i hope things get better for all of us who suffer from narcissistic parents

[@djafo14]

This is absolutely correct. My mom only loved me in public. At home she didn't want me and wished she had an abortion with me cuz she told me. She humiliated me every day. The verbal and physical abuse was beyond horrific. The name calling was sometimes inconsolable. My sister and I would cover each other's bruses and welts from being beat just a few hours before school. My sperm donor only liked me if everything was ok. He was never there. He's a drunk! He only cares about himself and his money. They never loved me. I am not them. My kids are everything to me. God, never let me be anything less than the best mom I can be for my kids and grandkids. Amen, 🙏🏼

[@alexkit2057]

Love how you think ❤

[@peasantsarerevolting9343]

You were soo much stronger than her! I always heard the excuse "I had it worse when I was a kid"! Now that I'm older and confront them, all they do is turn into one big sorry excuse... Stay strong and God bless...

[@biffphuddle6581]

My mom used to tell others in public stupid things we kids did to embarrass us (every child makes mistakes, but she would laugh about it). Once old enough I had to scold her to stop doing it. She did, but what a pain in the ass until she stopped.

[@merrityndall5476]

Thank you. The full truth at last. I still can’t go to my small town due to the way she defamed me from birth and I am 81. Difficult to recover.

[@ashathomas3725]

Same here....my mother used me like a slave 😢

[@tshwarelohendrietha8356]

This sounds so much like my father. In public he will be all loving and comforting, but the minute we are in our private space, getting a hello from him is a blessing. I excel in school, I would show him my marks but he will always dispute them and say perhaps I cheated that's why I got higher marks, but unbeknownst to me when he's at work, with friends or family he always shows them the very same marks and tell them how proud he is of me but to me I'm always belittled and tortured with words.

[@remy5829]

exactly what my childhood was like. i know i'm not the only one who had to suffer like this. thank you for this video. i wish much love + healing to everyone who grew up with narcissistic parents

[@Princess_Paranormal]

My mother used to give me the silent treatment. And she’d say “I love you, but I don’t like you”. The feeling is now mutual!

[@cycleofficial4744]

Some people you can only love from a distance.

[@teresajohnsgard4489]

My mother would say the same thing...im 62 and still carry that hurt.

[@kengaroo5170]

I love you, but don't like what you do.

[@gloriousgloria1000]

that is harsh. ugh. you have to love them but sometimes family can be so hurtful

[@Princess_Paranormal]

@@kengaroo5170 I hadn’t done what she wanted because I’m not a mind reader. Thing is if you want your kids to love you and respect you, don’t scream at them constantly and then maybe they’ll start thinking “oh mum could use some help, I’ll do the dishes” But instead we were too scared to do anything because it was always wrong 😑

[@chesterfieldsl44]

My childhood felt like being held captive by my hostile mother.

[@avivabillington5514]

Sorry you went through this,me too!! 100% both of the people known as my parents were narcissist's.

[@nancysavard4322]

Totally. Daily physical and verbal abuse. I remember her making me watch the movie 'Mommie Dearest' and her saying "See, you don't have it that bad." Or the movie 'Sybil', and again her saying 'See? You aren't mistreated'. Later, when she'd call my name, I'd often respond with "Yes, mommie dearest?" We both knew what I meant.

[@Silvania1327]

I literally snuck out and ran away at 20 years old from my mother. Because I felt that way and was terrified of what she would do.

[@MissPomegranately_mahi]

Same. I always wished she was never even there, it would have been a lot better.

[@littleme3597]

@@nancysavard4322 How horrible. Gaslighting you. So sorry.

[@ludwigmalone5239]

Perfect description of the "family" I grew up in. ...

[@user-mv4mc5xm6h]

Hugs for you Danish! I'm so sorry to hear both of your parents were narcissists! 😢

[@claribelhernandez8114]

I’m 37 yrs old and now I understand why our life was so disfuntional. Both of my parents are narcissist 😢

[@optimisticgirl07]

OMG

[@klowen7778]

Yep, likewise, and I understand completely. Have you reached the point yet where you feel that you have no alternative but to distance yourself, and completely cut ties with both of 'em (presuming they're both still living)? Painful as it was, that was when I first began to feel 'free' and become my own person.

[@haleemaborbhuiya6006]

I understand

[@itecblogger]

Both of mine are as well. They enable each other in a sick way. But they are both narcissist. It really messed with my head. Thank GOD for the man's KZbin channel to help me understand my trauma.

[@goopybonez]

The ‘Golden Child’ vs the ‘Scapegoat’ child really hit me hard, my brother’s definitely more “cherished” by my narcissist father and he ended up becoming a narcissist himself, where I fell down the ‘people-pleaser’ route for many years.

[@bchristian85]

This one is complicated for me, because I was the golden child pre-adolescence and my younger sister with the scapegoat. The roles switched after I became a teenager.

[@leonab545]

Wow I know a people pleaser who married one narcissist after another, with the last of whom he had two sons. She is raising her oldest to be like herself.

[@leonab545]

@@TielMama777 he’s improving his situation. Finally. Had to diminish who he was for years in order to minimize the damage on the kids. It has been a hellish time attempting to raise kids with a narcissist. He now knows what she is, but before he used to make excuses for her, like even saying that her calling him names came from a place of love. He has grown a lot. I realize that I also fell for their tactics. They truly are master manipulators. So we have to forgive ourselves for giving them too many chances, appreciate the knowledge we possess now, go on and enjoy our days.

[@mikeexits]

​@@leonab545The way they become skilled (though often unconscious) manipulators was almost always (if not, always) their way of surviving in their own family unit growing up, to receive conditional "love" and not be neglected. Daniel Mackler talks about this better than I could here. It's a cycle and people like us are breaking them one at a time. Bless your souls.

[@wmelliott3802]

@goopybonez My Older Sister was the Golden child, I was the scapegoat, the one who was always used for everything.

[@marysingh8694]

You are right about everything you said. The difficult thing is they succeed to destroy the family and separate the children from one another which in most cases is irreparable.

[@devinbooth609]

I've only recently realized how many narcissist family members I have. 😂 so many things you said are 100% on point. Wow that brings a lot of clarity to me. Thanks for sharing.

[@antifleshnimbus4785]

My narcisstic mother started to be extremely violent since I started "growing up" at the age of 13/14. It only got worse and worse, progressively as I grew into the teen and early adulthood. She clearly hated the fact I exists and told me that very clearly many times, using eg words "I could abort you" or "Kill yourself" etc. It ended with me moving since I only had a chance and before that, she used to threat me with death literally (until I was afraid to sleep and eat or drink anything from the kitchen that she could access. I was only drinking tap water and eat what freshly brought home from the store, as she suggested would poison me and she was a doctor and had many medicines in home). I'm pretty sure, she never ever loved me. She may like some aspects of being mother and "owning" someone who was admiring and loving her unconditionally, until it lasted, but she also dropped me in grandparents house for years. She eventually took me home, when I was around 7. Then, the horror started. I remember developing insomnia, horrible stomach cramps that lasted for hours and other health issue that no doctor could diagnose, beside severe OCDs and depression. Then, eating disorders came, beside I turned from quite a social being into an introvert, extremely shy, insecure and scared person that passed through depression, EDs, addictions, severe panic attacks, huge problems with socializing, unable to stand for self and give people a healthy boundaries etc. We lost contact with each other for almost 8 years and I was getting better. I got a dream job, a nice apartment and some dignity, until she came back (due to her divorce with my stepfather that also didn't give a single s+it about me. It was all about her, because all the sudden, she needed help and support) and AGAIN turned my life into hell. For the 4 years she was "back", she achieved to make me loose almost everything, beside the panic attacks came stronger than ever, so it literally made normal life impossible for some time. She made me a WRECK. After she tried eventually to ruin me also financially, so I would stay homeless, I finally cut the contact again. I felt a HUGE relief. Nothing can be compared to that peace, when I don't have to deal with her anymore. I just wish it was sooner, but I also know I would have huge guilt if not the last drop of what she attempted on the end. I never felt so light since 4 years, I do after I cut her off. I wish to warn you all - NEVER let the narcisst come back a ruing your life again. Don't believe in their tears and promises - they DO NOT change.

[@keithstewart7514]

My 14 year long headache departed WITHIN ten minutes of demanding my mother not say she loves me. Four months plus & no mom or her headache with me either.

[@lysas781]

I’m so sorry you had such a rough childhood! Please stay no contact and never let her come back ever again!

[@PoojaBharti1718]

Ohh this is my story also 😔😔😔

[@debprobst330]

What a strong person you are just putting your experience into words is a testament to your strength....be well 💪

[@idontknowyouthatsmypurse]

Oh my heart hurts for you reading that. I am so sorry.💔

[@JoannA-sweetly]

Narcissist parents are lethal! It’s the grace of God that the child doesn’t become demon possessed, but walk out “normal”….. ME! 🎉

[@Smellslikenarcspirit]

And me , endured a whole family of ( them ) .

[@terasaknox7168]

But some end of being demonic just like them & it's usually the golden child

[@JoannA-sweetly]

My mom tried to give us children a “normal” life…. she didn’t know what she was up against! But God said …. this far and no more!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🙏🏾❤️

[@christinalw19]

Ditto. They couldn’t take my soul because God owns me. 👍🏼⚖️🙏🏼

[@seasun2846]

Indeed is a Grace of god to not be om a crazy Narc like them.💯Grace og God

[@Afterhoursangel55]

This makes so much sense now. When I was young my mom used to always say I was a lovely girl, I was a quiet child, I could spend hours coloring, I help my mom from the day she brought my sister home and helped care for my sister and I was only 19 months older then her. I never truly felt love from either parents. When I became a teenager things changed because I did not want to study what she felt i should study. Mom always said to me it is not that she did not love me, but she had no stories of wrong doing from me as a child, I was obedient, a cry baby at times, but always polite. I went to college and worked 2 jobs to get me through it as my parents could not afford college, I have 2 diplomas, one in science the other in nursing (I am now a retired nurse. I left home the age of 21, as I was making 80 $ per week and mom charged me 25 $ per week for what she called room and board, but I did laundry, dishes, every task in the house while my sister did not further her schooling beyound high school, she went to bars, smoked like my parents, got home drunk and did not work and had no tasks. I left because I felt I could do better on my own, which I was right, but my mom got so mad when i moved out, even when I decided to become a nurse, she would say you'll never be a nurse your a cry baby and cry when you see blood. Well this cry baby became a nurse and worked ICU, ER and all floors in hospital at some point in my career. But my mom accused me of not taking time off from work for holidays and that my career was ruining my family dynamic, surely I could be off holidays (she never understood why I had to work shifts and be on call and working holidays). I always saw myself as the black sheep of my family, I was not like them and they reminded me of this all the time. When I left home I realized I was much more then any of them tried to bring me down. I gained wt over time and mom ket saying "youwere such a pretty girl growing up and was never fat, as if being overweight made me ugly. I wish I would have known about narcissistic parents as both of them were. I was so afraid of my dad as mom would say wait till your dad comes home. But in retrospec she made us believe he was a monster, since age 12 she stated she would leave him and take me with her. My mom last year past away, she had stopped speaking to me for months (was not the first time either), then my sister calls me saying mom wants to talk to me as she is now dying and had less then 1 year to live, she wanted to be at peace with me for me not to go through what she did when her mom died and she had stoed talking to her. Well that same phone call she tried rehashing the past twice, i told her if she wanted eace we had to leave the past behind, 1 week later I was on the phone with her and knew something was off, so I called my sister who stated it was her pain medications, but 3 days later she had a stroke, and 2 days later another one which rendered her unconcious till she passed that same night. Because of Covid restrictions i had not seen any family members since Dec 2019, then I watched my mom gasp for air for 12 hrs straight, dad sent me home and she died 2 hrs later. I never felt peace but tried to give it to her, even on her dying bed I spoke to her in case she could hear me, told her what I knew she wanted to hear, but 20 hrs later while at home I broke down and asked why I was never good enough for her, why did I feel like i did not belong to this family, why she hated me so much to treat me badly, what did i do to her for her to treat me that way. Well this video now answers all my questions. I never felt loved from them because they did not love me except as a child I was a model child, good grades and some even called me teachers pet, so while I did things their way i was the good girl, once i chose my own path I was the one who distanced myself from them and purposely worked to not be with them, according to them. A few months later I made my peace with my mom in a dream and ever since then I feel so much better. My dad and I speak once a week (before she died we rarely spoke unless he picked up the phone, I was there for them when she died, dad, sister and niece, dad saw the real me I guess as he treats me much better now, my spouse states my mom poisonned his mind against me and now he sees who i truly am. I do feel a difference with my dad now, I feel respected and in his own way loved, which my spouse stated he felt my dad did love me but mom got in the way. I always felt like the black sheep of this family, still do when it comes to sister and niece. But I am at peace with myself. I retired in 2020 age 55 because of health issues, applied months before Covid came along or was even learned of. I ended my career while on sick leave the last 6 months. Life is easier now, sad to say that it took my mom's death for me to finally feel alive, but it is what it is. I always stated I would never bring a child in this world which would suffer more then I have, I have 18 diseases with no cure, some since birth, 5 are autoimmune and hereditary. I stuck true to myself, I was not going to have a child just for the sake of having one. I love children, but there was no way I was going to make a child suffer as I have. Now I have adult children through my spouse, who love me for who I am, the eldest is autistic with learning disabilities, his mental age is 5 yrs old, he is stuck in the body of a 33 yr old man, to me he is my eternal child I never had myself, bringing a smile on his face is all that matters to me, being retired he is home with me now while his dad works, he also loves me in his own way. I get more love from the 3 stepsons and my spouse then anyone ever showed me in my life, now I know what love is suppose to feel like, what a family does for each other. Too bad I had to wait till i was 50 yrs old to find this out, I am 58 now. Now knowing this narcisistic parents and siblings helps me understand and have peace knowing I can never be good enough for them, but I am good enough for myself, I did good in life 35 yrs in health care taking care of others, made a difference in many lives, I feel accomplished and loved and it is all that matters, I made something of my life, worked hard for it, sometimes had 3 jobs to get by, but was worth it. I am also a DV survivor and childhood abuse survivor. I am at peace now.

[@BG-sq7zf]

Good for you. I am pleased you have found love from your 3 stepson and husband. Your story was well worth reading. You are being blessed. I am sure you already know that by now 🕊🙏🏻💚

[@rozsheehy6146]

You're talking about MY mother! And it hurts so badly!! I was always the "black sheep" in our family of 6. Four kids. Thank goodness for my dad, who ALWAYS showed me unconditional love.

[@et-uo7mp]

I never realise my mum is a narcissistic. How i wish i had known all this earlier. Awareness in this topic is very important to young adults.

[@guardianpapajack8441]

23😂

[@yvettedurbangirlsa]

Yes I only found out when I was an adult. I no longer have any contact with her it's a blessing. Hugs to you 🤗

[@Justice_TRUTH_Martyr]

*CoWard Name & a Hater of God!!!*

[@aaronwalcott513]

Very. It destroys them, especially as the Munchausen Syndrome and self-sabotage set in.

[@avivabillington5514]

100% well said!! Me too

[@christelleny]

I once mentioned to my parents that PARENTAL love is (and should be) unconditional. They both answered at the same time: "Since when?" That explained EVERYTHING!

[@Agameda1]

Unconditional from YOU, to them they mean

[@anniep6248]

​@@Agameda1Don't forget you "OWE" them respect too 🙄

[@Agameda1]

@@anniep6248 oh dear, oh dear, don't forget you don't know me or my situation or how much respect I have for them - and myself.

[@LentilSoupGirl]

​@@anniep6248classic enabler.

[@anniep6248]

@@Agameda1 that was meant as sarcasm. Most narcs I've met feel they are owed undying love, respect, loyalty, etc. My narc mother used to scream at us at how we "owed" her respect while telling us we were lucky she was letting us live with her till we were 18. We were little when she started telling us the day we hit 18 we were out on the street. All 3 of her kids left home before we hit 18.

[@hygqueensav]

Prayers for all who have been victimized by these sick people.

[@MrsKMango]

My narcissistic mother’s favorite line when we did something she didn’t like was “I love you, but I don’t like you right now.”

[@flacabal]

Reading comments, wow, so many of us. I grew up thinking that I was alone in this planet. Sociopath father and cover narc mother. I ended up getting married to a cover narc (what a surprise). But never gave up, I have a decent happy life. I'm 56. And helping my kids to go through all this. My 19 year son is the one who showed me this videos. Thank you Danish!!

[@Lyrielonwind]

This issue is taboo; it feels dangerous to mention it outside certain channels. It feels clandestine and shameful. It would be easier to talk about witchcraft than talking about the witches in disguise we all know behind doors.

[@jlcmsw]

@flacabal you’re in a big family of children who have narcissistic parents. I have found support through the comments in these videos and it’s comforting that we are not alone and that we are worthy of love and a good life. I wish you all the very best.

[@janicestjohn8190]

My first husband who was a lovely man, the father of my child, died when he was 35 years old and my son was 15 months old. Within a few months a man who worked at the same company as my husband made a beeline for me. He couldn’t have been nicer at the start. Nothing was too much trouble. We later married. At first he was good with myself and son but as my son grew older that was when the control started. I left my husband 2 years ago. I feel so guilty and sad that I subjected my son to ex’s behaviour for so long , which has had a big impact on him. I just wish I knew what a narcissist was years ago. Having said that I had been so beaten down by ex I wouldn’t have had the confidence to leave at that time. There seems to be an awful lot of narcissists around. Why is that? 😥😥

[@Justice_TRUTH_Martyr]

*Hi Bot!!!!*

[@gloriarangott8803]

@@Justice_TRUTH_Martyr Huhhh WHAT?.....!!!? what ARE you talking about.....

[@Maiasatara]

You have literally described my childhood. How I wish the internet had existed when I was at an age where I could have realized the truth DECADES earlier. I might have had a chance to develop more self-esteem and made much better choices. I could have started healing at an age where it would have made a difference in my adult life. I remember when I realized the parents of friends loved their children in a way mine did not but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why. I never drank, skipped, did drugs. I never disobeyed in any way. In fact I excelled at everything I did; principal flute, majorette captain, honors society, etc. So if I was doing all that and still not worthy of love I must then just be INHERENTLY unworthy. As a person I didn’t deserve love. Ask me whether my first husband was basically my parents. I cry wishing I had a do-over. Do yourselves a favor. Go no contact as early as you possibly can. ❤

[@wandabanks6756]

It's sad but true. My aunts and uncles told me they didn't think my mother was going to let me grow up if you know what I mean. They're just never going to change. Constant recriminations never any hugs never told good job. To this day she's the same at 87 years. Everything's my fault. They are just not going to change

[@mikeexits]

This is why I'm so grateful we have people like Daniel Mackler to shine light on this stuff for a lot of people.

[@michellegonzalez7693]

My life, summed up. My mom has left a legacy of manipulations,lies,pain, favoritism etc. I realized I married my mom twice ,first with an overt narc and then a covert narc. I am kinda suspicious of men , don't want to be hurt again .

[@rhonda9636]

This explains my mother in law perfectly. Use her granddaughter to manipulate everyone in the family to get what she wants or needs. Pins sibling’s against each other for family drama which she loves. Mother in law definitely the puppet master. I see her other children with the same personality style as her. I also believe father in law is a narcissist just not as demented as the mother in law. So proud of my husband finally walking away from his mom breaking the trauma bond. No he is at peace finally at 60 years old. We are both very happy in life. No more DRAMA and LIES.

[@baussier134]

THE IDEALIZATION OF THE TODDLER STAGE. Never saw other video talk about this point. Congratulations, that's spot on!

[@DizzyWolf]

Not only do they not love you, they will convince you that they do, and you could grow up thinking those toxic behaviors equal love, and it will leave you as a permanently confused and damaged adult. Edit: Please do not leave advice about whether or not you can heal, it is entirely subjective and not up strangers on the internet, it's great if you've experienced your own form of healing, but please do not try to force your personal progress on to others, everyone is different, recovery is not a one-size-fits-all kind of outfit. If someone says "please drop it" then respect that. Edit #2: The persistently negative comments are a great example of toxic people. Even when politely asked to stop, they don't. Even when I put a notice asking for them to be respectful, they don't. A huge thank you to those who ARE mature and respectful, who don't feel the need to confront a stranger over the internet about their personal opinion. You are much appreciated.

[@supernova11711]

Yep. Then we go out and find toxic partners.

[@sabine3769]

I feel my granddaughter will be hurt by her narc father

[@gracegwozdz8185]

OMG, are we ever damaged goods! And we didn't even know about it till Danish explained.

[@herelieskittythomas3726]

There favorite go to is "I love you unconditionally", they don't know the meaning.

[@Gemmarose9012]

Not permanent. Healing is possible.❤

[@g.marion5888]

My parents not only want to erase my individuality, they want me in the ground for not being their puppet, it's disturbing how demonic these creatures are. Great video, Danish.

[@keh-dalia809]

Totally disturbing. And yeah, it's cuz they're full of demons. As a believer in Jesus, I began to realize it's totally demonic. And what's wild is they lie to themselves and others so much, they begin to believe their own lies, act like nothing happened, like they have no clue, and expect you to believe their bs too.

[@amybloom3665]

I am pretty sure my mom wants me to die before her

[@TheREALLibertyOrDeath]

Same

[@donsmoove3103]

Same here. They wish bad on you. Lol

[@tiffanysoto2636]

Same

[@luckthegambino5809]

My daughter is currently dealing with this from her narcissistic mother… She turns 7 years old tomorrow… Her mother’s rejection stands out to her even more because her older brother (18 years old) was never rejected by her mother. She was a great mom to him, but somehow she morphed into a completely different person about a year after my daughter was born. At age 4 my daughter asked me “why is mommy nice to my brother but not to me”…. She felt it… Children see and hear and understand more than most adults would believe.. This situation is by far the most difficult and most painful situation I’ve ever experienced in my entire life because it’s not happening to me, it’s happening to my baby girl. I can’t fix it, but I can and will do whatever it takes to help prevent her mother’s issues from affecting my daughter’s future as much as possible by being a level headed non-dysfunctional presence in my daughter’s life. As a parent, it is critical for me to do and say the right things, and be whatever my daughter needs me to be at any given moment to ensure that she doesn’t normalize her mother’s behavior or assume responsibility for it. I know she’s confused and I know she wants answers, but I can’t explain the unexplainable to her. I can’t help her to rationalize behaviors that are selfish and irrational. But what I can do and will always do is be there for her and make sure she knows she is loved. For the rest of my life I will dedicate my entire existence to her. My love, my time, my effort, my energy, and my undivided attention belong to her and will always be at her disposal whenever she wants or needs them. Overcompensating for the void her mother created will become a part of my daily routine. My sole purpose in life is making sure my daughter is safe and feels loved every day til the day I die. She is my reason. I she is my everything. She is my one and only daughter, and she will always be daddy’s favorite flower. Irene Rose. I will love her unconditionally for the rest of my life and I would go to war with any entity no matter the odds, and will die on my shield if need be, in order to protect her.. I love you Irene… ❤

[@cathryn352]

You just explained my “TOTAL “ Life… mother had me sterilized to protect her image etc…I feel nothing for her except responsibility in taking care of her because she gave birth to me although I can NOT remember her ever giving me a hug. She hugs all in family except ME… she is 91…Psalms 23 and 27🙏🏽😇🙏🏽

[@Vid7872]

You still owe her for diapers. Lifelong debt that you can never pay back but they don’t tell you that. And these women feel that if you truly loved them, you’d die first.

[@sheshotjfk8375]

Wow! This described my mother spot on. I am the only person in my family who understands my mother is a narcissist (I'm the scapegoat). They all are brainwashed and gaslight and think that I am the problem. When I finally realized and came to terms with the fact that my mother did not love me, and actually hated me lividly, it changed my life. Allowed me to let go of so much. It is a hard thing for a child to come to terms with, they will lie to themselves and find reasons to convince themselves that their parent loves them because it is such a heartbreaking thing for a child to know.

[@katyjahn1353]

I’m in the same boat. My mother has turned my siblings against me. And my father has been abused by her for so long it’s just normal to him. He doesn’t see it as abuse. I’m the only one who can see things clearly. It’s heartbreaking.

[@judywright4241]

You came to what it took a wonderful therapist to get me to. “If they were not related to you, are they people you would seek out to be friends with?” I was horrified ‘NO!’ She let me just sit with my answer. They were liars, telling me who I was and they had no idea, bringing up the past but changing it to elevate themselves. I couldn’t buy any gift that EVER pleased them but anything they did, acted like it was the kindest, most elegant thing ever. They were exhausting.

[@sheshotjfk8375]

@@katyjahn1353 It's hard when you're the only one that can see it. It's like they are brainwashed beyond approach. And when you try to get through to them they just act like you are crazy. The only thing that has helped me is distance. It took a long time for me to come to terms with the fact that they were never going to wake up. EVER. It's sad but you just have to eventually learn to let them go.

[@BowDownBitches]

Same here everyone now thinks I'm the problem. Some of her family members knows that she's a liar but they still somehow scold me

[@broncosbest6441]

Yep. I grasped and understood that my mother was a narcissist in my 20s and went no contact. So of course the narcissist makes sure that the rest of the family are brainwashed even though they know at heart she doesn’t love them. All relationship are for utility to them.

[@hawkes555maine]

I have never heard my mother described so perfectly. Thank you. Can’t say I feel better, but I know that it’s not my fault. I’m 70 now, bout time I find this out!

[@Dbb27]

69 and still dealing with the nonsense. You think you’re over it and then something triggers the past.

[@Kipper388]

Seventy two and just figuring it out. I wish someone would address birth order. I was the scapegoat, in the middle , between a sister three years above and three years younger. I was such a chump……….

[@tinalettieri]

@@Kipper388 My husband was the first born but his brother was the golden child. Husband died 3 weeks short of his 68th birthday.

[@mssannysanderson9203]

Same! My mother to a T!

[@lizhodges7899]

Yes, same here!

[@fatimamohammed5201]

Good video you left out how they mess with the siblings by switching there favouritism temporarily creating more conflict amongst the siblings so they always feel like the other was more loved

[@babyfaceyoungbrother]

Yup, my brother and I discussed this a lot throughout our childhood. Good thing we were smart enough at a young age to catch on quick.

[@loveisblind1990]

My narcissistic parent died, and I am left with my loving mum who cares more about her children than herself. She became a single parent in 1992 when I was 2 years old. She left our abusive and narcissistic father, and she is the most kind person I know. There is nothing quite like the love of a mother for her children. Because of my father, my mum, brother, and I all have different kinds of depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms. Every day in life is a chance to heal, and the love of my mother helps me to overcome so much ❤️ ♥️ 💖 💛 💙 💕

[@kinesis4868]

I have a narcissistic dad who after age 3 totally disconnected emotionally from me. He came home from work and the atmosphere in the house completely changed, you needed to make yourself as small as possible in order to survive. My mother is very Co-dependant, mostly towards my dad but also on me now I’m older. She will keep the peace with whoever provides her the most financial security. She definitely loves and has empathy for people and is very nurturing but this is stifled by trying to keep favour with my dad who discourages any of that behaviour and punishes her constantly for caring for others like her grandchildren . Now I’m older I consider my trauma bond with my dad to be truly resolved, I see fully who he is and he knows it and as a result we barely speak or acknowledge each other. His punishment is to disconnect, act like you don’t exist, give you the silent treatment, ignore my children - and that’s fine by me. He forgets I’ve lived my life not in his favour and have become accustomed to it. My kids don’t even bat an eyelid. My mum who still lives with my dad however is stuck right in the middle, but that is because she valued his financial security over her mental well-being and she kept being sucked back into the abusive cycle - now they’re quite old it would be unwise to leave despite their relationship being extremely disfunctional. All I can do is provide a safe space for my mum and almost be there for her like a parent. She can stay with me whenever she wants and has her own room and en-suite and she has a key and is welcome day or night. My dad hates that. My biggest win against my narc parent is being self sufficient and being a treat to his control by providing the same level of security for my mum should she ever need it. I know he doesn’t care about me one bit. It’s not even that he doesn’t care, he doesn’t know me, he doesn’t see me, I’m invisible, I’m a blind spot. I don’t even blame him, his biggest punishment is being himself. It must be painful living in his mind, being that insecure, being so fragile. I just wish my mum could be free of it as it’s exhausting for her but she has a deep trauma bond that I can’t force her to break, only she can do that if she was ever ready and willing and able. The way to defeat them is with unconditional love and I unconditionally love my mum and my children and he can’t take that away from us even though he tries daily. He’s a parasite trying to suck the joy and the love from everyone and everything and that’s how I see him whenever he (rarely) makes an appearance, like a gross blood sucking parasite that one day will lose all the blood supply he needs to keep him living and he will die like a shrivelled up worm gasping for other people misery to feed on and finding none. Nobody’s here. He’s alone and nobody wants him time, his money, his favour, his opinion - nothing. He is what he was always scared of being - insignificant and unimportant. And despite what people might think reading this, I don’t wish that upon him. I just knows it’s inevitable. You can’t put out that much putrid toxic energy into the world without it making you sick. For all those suffering internally from the souls crushing realisation your parent(s) never loved you and never will. Let it be their sickness, not yours. Love everyone, love yourself and love hard.

[@oftin_wong]

Use it as a model of how not to be In that way you can become a better person ..hi from Australia

[@LM-ql4zh]

The suffering has made you a better and more emotionally intelligent human being x

[@danielssister7086]

Your mother is lucky to have you. It’s so loving that you make space for her, but understand why she hasn’t left.

[@unlucky7s561]

Sounds to me like you still carry alot of trauma using KZbin as a therapy session. You are in denial. I bet you struggle with having functional relationships. Cant keep a man around.

[@Oraclestwin]

My dad passed away a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been having so much cognitive dissonance since the memorial. So many people got up and shared positive experiences with him, all of which where completely counter to mine. Thank you for writing this post ! It describes my life in large part - the disconnection at age 3, the treatment, mom playing peace keeper. Growing up my mom was the dominant one who was cold, controlling, and callus and I thought she was the narcissist. They both come from alcoholic families, so the ACOA knowledge has been helpful. This has clued me into think my Dad was a covert narc and my mom’s behavior was extreme co-dependence. He had a goddaughter born before me that he LOVES. Now I realize it could just be that she has always idolized him and doesn’t threaten him in any way and that feeds his narcissism. He has been threatened by me since I could read, openly hostile in person unless he needed me for something, but otherwise I don’t exist. It was devastating because he engages and treats his goddaughter like she is his own (so much that my mom and her dad think he is his). Thank you - this has helped me explore a new possibility that this may not be because I’m not good enough.

[@moreengover6033]

I was the only child of narcissistic parents. thank-you for this content.

[@heatherroberson1648]

I see you. I'm an only child as well and had a narcissistic mother and her narcissistic boyfriend. I couldn't wait to move out as soon as I graduated high school. I had no childhood.

[@moreengover6033]

@@heatherroberson1648 I started the countdown at 11 years old until my 18th birthday. I moved out that day. I hear you and I can totally relate.

[@danielkaiser8971]

Same. Home life was a living psychological hell yet I somehow knew that I needed to study my schoolwork expertly for the sole purpose of getting out and getting a job and never, ever having to depend on them ever again. Also, through all the constant intrusions and invasions of my privacy by my mother, when she saw me studying or reading the Bible, she would smile and leave me in peace. Sometimes I even did the same homework multiple times just to be left alone in my bedroom.

[@moreengover6033]

@@danielkaiser8971 yes I used the same tactic. I skipped grade 4 and had graduated college on my 18th birthday, that day I left, never to return.

[@TAP-xs4nd]

I just feel sad realized after 40 years married and two children with a narcissistic husband that we were never truly loved it’s a hard pill to swallow.

[@EllenBrighton]

You're so correct, sadly time does not heal the pain of having such a parent/parents. I won't bore you with what my mother and brother did. I take my childhood experiences as a lesson of karma. Which was of no use when I married a man who outdid both as a narcissistic husband. Am now just me and my rescue dog. Have never enjoyed the simple freedoms of life more. I wish you all well in the hope that others do not endure what I have. These videos are a god save for many

[@markvery65]

Wow! All my life I hated that I was the black sheep of my family, now after this video, not so much! I was the truth teller and they hated me for it! I would point out reality and they would say what you’re seeing, feeling and experiencing is not real! Well, I’m hanging in there and I’m on the path to recovery! 🙂

[@rameezh88]

Gaslighting is the default response to a truthteller's words. They make you feel like you're crazy for even THINKING differently, ie, more clearly. Everything is set up to maintain the lies that keep the narcissist either pacified or at the top of the food chain. The more I learn about this, the more I see how much toxicity there actually was in my family. Hang in there. It's a long road of recovery for us. Good luck!

[@cassandranoll5901]

I was the black sheep to. Continually abused, gaslit, belittled, silenced, used, driven, trophies, abandoned. Jesus is the answer and my strength, life. Understanding what happened in my life and being given these tools to help navigate is wonderful!

[@markvery65]

@@cassandranoll5901 I am so sorry to hear that. So much abuse. I am glad you are healing.

[@josiah5776]

Both of my parents were also narcissists. Father was grandiose, mother was covert. Everything you state is 100% accurate. My mother was so nasty and cruel over the course of 50+ years that I felt absolutely nothing when she passed away, except some relief that she was permanently gone. My father had passed away 25 years earlier before I put all the pieces together, so I grieved his passing back then ... but I don't miss him either. Good riddance to both of them. The only regret I have is that I never told them to their faces how much I hate and despise them.

[@beemonroe4330]

❤

[@rickwhite5206]

So true, but labels are only generally accurate. The Covert can exhibit periodic bursts of grandiosity when their covertism isn't being rewarded. So they reward themselves with outlandish purchases to show off how great they are. In the same way, a grandiose may stay quiet in the background waiting for the opportunity to show off, and then we are off to the races, until their ego is satisfied. This can last years. Then they may take a timeout from grandiosity if you wil,l to evaluate if their actions and res

[@misha2197]

Same.

[@josiah5776]

@@rickwhite5206 I saw all of what you describe as well. My parents were extremes, so they held to their patterns for the most part, but later in life I saw quite a few coverts who regularly crossed over into some grandiose behavior.

[@spdadventurer1754]

Both narc parents here also...i think my soul will never heal

[@austinnevels7447]

My father actually drew out “the family circle of trust” from the movie meet the parents. There’s no love in that when you can’t laugh at it and it’s not used as a joke. I was sitting with him 6 months beforehand when we watched to movie together In terms of discipline; he told me the reason I’m finding some success is because “he got a hold of me really young” he would scream and belt way to hard for a 5 year old- scared the crap out of me. My mother taught me that only animals show unconditional love

[@moroporo4785]

This resonates so much with me and my narc mother that it makes me cry… It’s so unfair for a sweet child to be unloved just for being… Thank you.

[@permiebird937]

I was about 11 when I read the Greek myth about Narcissus, and my teacher said and explained about Narcissus and how it was where the name of narcissism comes from, and what that was. I thought wow, that sounds exactly like my father. Most of my life I thought my mother was a huge enabler to my father, but I realized later, she was a covert narcissist. She even took time to put a letter in her will, that was to accuse me of all the evil things she had done to me over the years, telling me it was all my fault. I figured out I was the scape goat by the time I was 7. I'm adopted, they went out of their way to find a child to scape goat, I wish I had been adopted by decent human beings and not the monsters who harmed me regularly.

[@MariaHernandez-rc2eq]

Wow! and I always wanted someone to adopt me! When I was a child, my mother never allowed me to get close to her, I could never hug her. She said that this was pure hypocrisy and falsehood. She never gave me love or listened to me. She made fun of me with everyone, it seemed like an innocent joke, but it wasn't. She never said something nice or sweet about me, if she talked about me it was to make fun of me. When I was a teenager, she was no longer satisfied with despising me, then the real and terrible hatred began. Sometimes she would leave me without eating for 3 days, she would yell insults at me, she would tell me that she was ashamed of me... and even though I was a good student and I was decent, she always yelled at me how embarrassed she lived thanks to me. She is still alive and I take care of her, she is already 85 years old, and I have always felt the pain of so much verbal and sometimes physical abuse. Once with tears in my eyes I told her "Why didn't you give me up for adoption?" and the answer was that I am bad, ungrateful for everything she did for me. We were raised by monsters

[@permiebird937]

@@MariaHernandez-rc2eq You have my sympathy. That must be very difficult to care for someone so toxic.

[@thevindictive6145]

​@@MariaHernandez-rc2eqsounds very similar to mine but my dad always made sure my brother and I were fed. I believe it was because of him I turn out a non narcissist. He showed me some meaning of empathy and unconditional love. I miss him.

[@MariaHernandez-rc2eq]

@@thevindictive6145 At least we now know that we weren't the problem. My blessings to all those who were abused, who never received a hug of love... God in his infinite goodness abundantly reward all the victims of narcissistic mothers.

[@dreamscape405]

Both of my parents were narcissists too, and yeah...they didn't love me...at all. I'm an only child, and also the scapegoat. I've learned how to be alone, and be fine with it. Especially now days because it seems like the level of narcissism in people has taken over, and it seems like they're everywhere. It makes it hard to meet good friends.

[@nwangui]

I am here we can be friends. I'm not a narc

[@joanndeck4315]

I’ve had the same parental experience…both narcs, only child, scapegoat….and feel the same way …narcissism is rampant in society…hugs 🤗

[@karencoulter3275]

The hardest part is trusting people to even think about being friends. They really do a number on your emotions and I do not feel friendships are worth the risk. 😢

[@NCrdwlf]

I think that most kids of a double narcissist household just want to be alone . It took me a long time to break that . A lot of work .

[@joanndeck4315]

@@NCrdwlf how did you do it? Because yes I’m a recluse hermit although I crave friendship and companionship 😢😭…I think it wouldn’t “bother” me so much if the world wasn’t in such chaos….but because the world seems or is so scary right now, being so alone brings me even more anxiety….I am stuck in a mental prison

[@elizabethtowers3321]

Thank you. I didn't even get the fake affection as a toddler. I was the last child born and the golden child had already been chosen. Yes, the narcissist was so controlling that the golden child even took their old job to follow in the narcissists footsteps/also studied to be an RN etc. It has been very damaging to all us kids. Even though we are all over sixty and some closer to seventy years old, we feel and show the effects of our loveless childhoods.

[@youngbear2258]

Idealization of toddlerhood shook me. I did not even realize it. I have a mom who I think is NPD. Just figured it out a few weeks ago. I am 31 but she is treating me as if I am a preteen boy who needs to be controlled and regulated. My dad is not a narcissist, but he is an enabler, asking me to sacrifice for her.

[@willj7628]

Great video. I was the scapegoat child constantly blamed for everything a lot of which was nothing to do with me🙄 She is nearly 80 now & she’s ruined our family n the older she gets the worse she gets🙄

[@Rgungujfc]

🎉

[@nancysayad9960]

They are destructors of goodness and happiness

[@gaywizard2000]

Mine is 88 and I agree!

[@JamesNGames]

It's heartbreaking to think about the damaging effects that narcissistic parents can have on their children's emotional and mental well-being. This video serves as a reminder that we must prioritize the safety and healing of those who have experienced this kind of trauma, and work to create a world where children can grow up feeling loved, supported, and valued for who they are, rather than being used as tools to bolster their parents' egos.

[@amandafevrier2638]

Right

[@doradestroy]

If only we could acurately identify them and stop narcissists from reproducing.

[@franceshaggitt3104]

Yessss..I was always asked..are you working.....when she never worked her whole life as married into wealth and dad abused her..yet she never left him....then never disciplined my older sis who bullied me

[@nancysayad9960]

Well said ...need of the hour

[@isawallamaat711]

Um ya think? Where do you thing we should start?🙄

[@ivabrowning760]

This was the best explanation I've found this far. Thank you! Im sorry for what you endured as a child. You deserve love and admiration, and you are worthy. Godspeed. 🙏🏼

[@gherimilanian1603]

Thank you so much for your expertise. The Lord informed me of much of this information in your videos, years ago, only it was not packaged in the term of narcissism. It was more along the lines of demonization, which you also discussed in one of your other videos. I have been in a very unhealthy marriage for over three decades. I lost my youth and joy with this person. I believe the Lord used your videos on this subject matter to confirm my decision. May the Lord bless you for your passion towards mental health and emotional healing.

[@loritr]

I absolutely knew my mother didn't love me, and there was proof after she passed away, she hated my sister and I her journals were full of just how much she hated us. in a way. We both felt so vindicated in our feelings towards her because we knew all along, and you would have friends and family say. Oh, no, she does love you deep down. No, she did not.

[@nursemayra3897]

People don’t understand. I tried telling My aunts how my mom doesn’t love us (my siblings and I) and she tells me oh she says she loves you guys so much.. people who did not live the abuse will never fully understand

[@canadachandler7521]

I was raised with two narcissistic parents. I am now 48 and my life is considered to be of no value to my entire family including extended family. I have no right to a life of my own and am considered selfish to ever say `No` or set boundaries. The abuse of a narcissistic family will only end when they pass away.

[@BronzeDragon133]

"The abuse of a narcissistic family will only end when they pass away." Or when you set a boundary that includes no-contact, and please don't be afraid to do that. Let them go before they pass, and let them be dead to you. You'll mourn, you'll get over it (faster than you ever thought you could because, let's face it, these are not good people) and you'll find your life started at 48. Late, but not too late.

[@donnakelley1202]

I'm sorry that you were not treated with the love and compassion you deserved. I know this from my own experiences with my parents. It caused me a lifetime of pain and self doubt. I hope you find peace in your life. We have to give ourselves the love we needed and didn't get. We have to be the parent to ourselves we wished we had when we were kids.

[@lillianbarker4292]

I was the same. My advise is to be “selfish”. It will seem strange at first, but You’ll be surprised to find that nothing bad happens and in fact people will like you more. Of course what seems selfish to you is just normal to others. You have to learn to be your own loving parent to yourself ❤ Don’t wait. Life is short. My mom lived to be 99 and I was 71.

[@BronzeDragon133]

@@lillianbarker4292 OK, that's a horrible thought after another afternoon of abuse from my mother. Who now thinks a minor brain bleed--absorbed the afternoon it happened--excuses 50 years of awful behavior to me that's now ramped up to screaming when I can't assist fast enough. I've advised her as of today that neither of us are tolerating it any more and if she's going to yell, we're leaving. I left.

[@angelaboleyartist357]

Same. ... everything is what can we use you for

[@iblmym7301]

KZbin'u açtığım zaman karşıma narsizm ile ilgili yüzlerce video çıkıyor. Ama sadece sizin videolarınız diğerlerinden çok farklı. Her zaman kimsenin aklına gelmeyen konuları ele alıyorsunuz. Bunun için size minnettarım. ❤

[@user-gk4zs5se6z]

You are perfectly correct, yes this happens to his children, and now saying the children aren't his

[@tafadzwachirinda5511]

Same here, born and bred by narcissistic parents, I am the rebel in the family so you can imagine the amount of abuse I faced whilst growing up.

[@spaideman7850]

same here. my narc mom had influenced all my relatives and cousins and spread vicious rumours about me, trying to force me to crawl back to her and call her 'My Queen, i obey'. Now I'm a Despicable Villain in my relatives eyes. I have no intention to proof to these stupid relatives that she's the real villain because they are easily influenced by sob stories, especially with tears. Truth will prevail, but until when, nobody know. I'm ok to be the villain in the eye of stupid people, its cool.

[@buildertrash4102]

Same here. I’m still the ‘black sheep’ at 50 yrs old. It’s ridiculous.

[@tartanrocker5926]

@@buildertrash4102 yep...100% true....i simply don't take shit from anyone any more...

[@buildertrash4102]

@@tartanrocker5926 same here. If people don't like that then they can go kick f'n rocks.

[@daisylu1973]

​@@spaideman7850At least you're Free & now you can have healthy relationships with healthy people!!!!

[@fluffbabiesRcrazy]

I was a mirror projection for my mother. When I rebelled in highschool my favorite way to push my mother's buttons was to look ugly or plain. It drove her into all her narcissist rage. I didn't/couldn't stop chewing my nails until I went no contact in my 30s. So much better now.

[@donnaradburn2206]

thats ironic my NM would be happier with me looking plain or ugly.

[@wittesneeuw]

They never have balance. You must be a perfect show off to attract new supply or the opposite.....They don' t give you nice clothing and makeup.....So that YOU stay their supply. They don't have any balance or middleways in anything.

[@upsidedowngrief]

For a child to get to adulthood intact and happy seems almost impossible. Substance freely available. Parents that might be narcissists est est. I was blessed with good loving parents and I will fall over substances not knowing what it is. It doesn't mean life was perfect. Some people have everything but are poor in the things that really matters. It's sad because it impacts the childrens life for ever. As seen in a lot of the comments posted. ❤

[@user-jq9gs5wh3l]

That's my dad right there. Me being disabled was his biggest trophy. It gave him bragging rights when he actually treated me like shit. Only a few hated him bc they knew he was lying. In college, what angered me the most was that he demanded I give him credit for me graduating. That his support was the main reason I graduated when he never gave me a penny for my education. To this day he doesn't know where I live & it's better off that way. He can no longer use me as an excuse for him to be on a pedestal.

[@crazycatlady7143]

"Children become the therapists of their narcissistic parent ..." Yeah. That's so true. From the age of 12 till young adulthood, I set down with my mother, sometimes daily and for hours (!!!), trying to understand and to help her with her depressions ... This was one of the many non-physicals abuses I had to endure. Try to imagine a 14 year old girl, that desperatly tries to explain her mother in hour-long daily sessions, that she should not kill herself ... The other way around, when I wanted to talk about something, even something little and light hearted, I knew from early age, that I had to express myself in no more than 2 or 3 sentences, because the attention span of my mother was (and still is) not existent. Only logically, because it is something NOT about her, that it is not valid.

[@XiaoGuanYin104]

Absolutely!!! For some of us it begins much earlier. I remember working very hard to cheer my mother up when I was a toddler. I was suicidal by age four.

[@CatLady-ph8xv]

Aw man, same. I don't think people who haven't gone through this understand how much of a burden it is and how it turns you into someone who learns that their own struggles will never be as important as anyone else's. It makes it very difficult to ask for help.

[@Radiant.Disruption]

Exactly the same. EXACTLY.

[@surajrshetty]

Wow! You explained it so well!

[@HA-gr7mt]

@@XiaoGuanYin104im so sorry. i hope ur doing ok now.

[@zsuzsuspetals]

Excellent video. All of it is 100% true right down to erasing and suppressing any normal and healthy growth that a child needs. The child is there to serve them and their needs. I'm sorry for what you had to experience in your life. But thank you for using your knowledge to help others.

[@frederickcollins4534]

Szuszu is a fun character. The real genius of that movie!

[@ForFreedom0815]

I am 67 and was the golden child. WHAT AN EXPENSIVE ROLE! I am finally getting many of my gifts such as music, back again. But love in all its forms were successfully swept off of the plate by my 2 narcissistic parents in my childhood, except for friendships. Am working through all of this with the help of friends and God.

[@TheMaskedWun]

This is spot on! You covered the main points perfectly. Sorry that you lived through the same thing. It is a lifetime scar to have a parent like this.