10 Strategies to Use When a Covert Narcissist Coaches Your Child to Reject You
Things I wish I had known
To anyone experiencing this, my heart goes out to you. This is incredibly common. Your support system and the rest of the world does not see it. And it is insanely severe psychological abuse for you and your children.
In this situation, the covert narcissist is typically someone in the family. People outside the family don’t have much influence and it’s relatively easy to limit contact.
When the covert narcissist is the other parent, a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, or sibling, the damage is far greater and your ability to limit it may be out of your control. Why? Because the court system and therapists become flying monkeys for the covert narcissist. The covert narcissist is so masterful, and the abuse is so subtle, it goes undetected.
For anyone who tells you it’s good that they’re only a covert narcissist, as if that’s not as bad as another subtype, we both know that’s a pile of crap. Covert narcissists are THE MOST dangerous subtype for psychological abuse because no one sees the abuse, including the victim!
