Understanding the Role of Enablers in the Narcissistic Family
Some villains choose the passive path to pain.
The narcissistic family is not like any other family. If the toxic family is a chaotic experience, the narcissistic family is a death match. Members are destroyed unless they put up the walls and learn how to sacrifice themselves. It’s horrible. The narcissistic sits at the head, absorbing all power and establishing all limits while everyone else lives in thrall to their delusions.
Those who are lucky enough to escape spend their lives looking backward. They question themselves. Wondering what went wrong, they will also question how something so wicked could carry on — generation to generation.
Fingers are easy to point at the narcissist. But is the narcissist the only one at fault? No. Narcissistic families require many roles to work, and one of those key roles falls to the enabler. The ultimate facilitator of the narcissist’s worst behaviors, if we want to uncork the trauma our narcissistic family leaves behind, we must address the enablers who allow the abuses to continue.
Who is the enabler in your family?
Every narcissist at the center of a family is kept there not only of their own volition, but by the will and manipulation of the…
