Raised by a Narcissistic Mother
A tale of growing up with a textbook narcissist for a mother and an abusive alcoholic for a father.
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7 min readFeb 5, 2021
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My mother was a narcissist. Everything was always about her, and I mean everything. It just took me 22 years to see it, because my father was an abusive, violent alcoholic. I was too busy hating him to see her constant manipulations and gaslighting.