I cannot express enough how important it is to live a life of growth, recovery, healing, self-reflection, accountability, vulnerability in front of your kids. Children learn by mimicking those around them. They copy behaviors to find what works for them and what doesn’t.
So in this situation, you already have one parent who is manipulative, coercive, controlling, passive aggressive, hyper sensitive, overly reactive, and taking no personal responsibility. Often in these homes, the non-narcissistic parent over-compensates. We try to control what our kids see and experience. We try to fix everything. We try to deny the reality that they are already living with the narcissistic parent in an effort to protect them from it. We try to be “perfect” for them.
What we are missing though is that our kids don’t need perfect, they need human!
Two Tools for Healing from Covert Narcissistic Abuse
Passive Aggressiveness and Gaslighting
I Lost Myself to a Covert Narcissist
How Does This Get Better?
Covert Narcissists See Their World Through a Filter of Anger
Two Things You Should Never Say to a Victim of Covert Narcissism
Guilt Manipulation: How a Covert Narcissist Uses Your Own Guilt Against You
What Really is a Covert Narcissist
Brinkmanship: The Crazy-Making Skills of a Covert Narcissist
A Grenade Inside a Tank
4 Hooks that Covert Narcissists Use to Rope You Back In Once Again
The Bone Dry Exhaustion of Life with a Covert Narcissist
Interview about covert narcissism
Just Hard to Relax - Living in a Courtroom with a Covert Narcissism
Q&A Session on Parenting with a Toxic Partner
Shouldn’t I just be grateful that it isn’t worse!?!
Clinging to the Breadcrumbs
Why do I Wonder if I am the Narcissist
No Reconciliation Ever with a Covert Narcissist
Why Can’t Covert Narcissists Give in Communication and What To Do About It
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