This Is What Happens When You’re the Only Daughter of a Narcissistic Woman
Understanding the unique challenges that face the only daughters of mothers high in narcissistic traits.
Who knows the narcissistic mother best? Is it the partner who helps her bring life into this world? Is it the psychologist who diagnoses her? The researcher who studies her?
There is a saying that “no one knows the oppressor better than those they oppress,” and that’s true. When you are under the thumb of cruelty, you become hypervigilant. You learn everything about your oppressor in order to keep yourself safe from their worst rages and demands.
This applies to the narcissistic mother, who is best known by the one person she oppresses more than anyone else around her…her daughter.
Narcissistic women see their daughters across a great divide. It doesn’t matter how hard the daughter tries to breach this chasm, it always exists. That’s because the daughter of narcissistic women are threats. They are competition. They are resentment embodied and they spend their lives paying for the grave sin of their existence.
