A Story about An Apostolic Mother who is Emotionally Abusive and Narcissistic
My mother is the oldest girl out of nine children who was raised in a
single parent home by my grandmother. When my mother was six years old,
her father died in a car accident. I could only imagine the devastation
and impact that a child at the age of my mother at that time would have.
My grandfather's death trigger the narcissistic behavior that my mother
suffers with today. My mother emotions were involuntary disruptive
because the death of her father, which in turn caused her to later
become emotionally abusive towards her children. You see-emotional abuse
occurs when the mother tries to fill those needs of hers which normally
would have been already been filled during a healthy childhood and
adolescence.
Below are characteristics of emotional abusive mothers:
1.Making the child/teen feel responsible for the mother's feelings.
2.Threatening them in general.
3.Threatening them specifically with rejection or abandonment.
4.
Threatening them with vague, unstated consequences.
5.
Using force upon them.
Invalidating their feelings.
6.Laying undeserved guilt on them.
7.
Placing undeserved blame on them....
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