Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing The Daughters Of Narcissistic Mothers - Plot & Excerpts
CHAPTER FOURWHERE IS DADDY?THE REST OF THE NARCISSISTIC NESTThe narcissistic family often resembles the proverbial shiny red apple with a worm inside. It looks great, until you bite into it and discover the worm. The rest of the apple may be just fine but you’ve lost your appetite.—Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman, The Narcissistic Family1The family with a narcissistic mother operates according to an unspoken set of rules. Children learn to live with those rules, but they never stop being confused and pained by them, for these rules block children’s emotional access to their parents. They are basically invisible—not heard, seen, and nurtured. Tragically, conversely, this set of rules allows the parents to have no boundaries with the children and to use and abuse them as they see fit. Sounds awful, doesn’t it?Where Is Daddy?“Daddy, why didn’t you protect me? Where were you when I needed you? Why did you always have to stick up for Mom? What about me?”These exclamations came from Marcy when we were doing an “empty chair”
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