I have never been someone to do what’s trendy or popular. I do what I know is needed.
Most abuse conversations now, are about emotional abuse and psychological abuse.
People wrongly go as far as saying they are worse than physical abuse. Yet, physical abuse nearly always occurs with emotional/psychological abuse together. So the victim is enduring several forms of abuse at the same time.
I don’t minimize or invalidate physical abuse.
It is terribly dangerous. Continue reading
My husband comes from a very narcissistic and dysfunctional family. None of them have any insight into that, and they truly believe they are normal and do no wrong. That is far from the truth.
My husband is highly narcissistic, his sister is a drug addict, his parents are selfish to the core and none of them have any conscience, remorse or shame about anything they do to harm others.
This has all been confirmed in counselling.
Fortunately for me and my children, all of my husbands family live the other side of the world. So we only see them when they come for a holiday.
My in-laws are here now, for a 3 week holiday. Today, is the first day we see them.
Due to counselling and confirming my husbands issues, and the way I have been treated by him and his parents, I am no longer tolerating their dysfunction, or narcissism.
Now, I am confronting it. His parents will be told their son is personality disordered, his personality did not form in a healthy way in his childhood and teenage years. They will be told their son is selfish, a pathological liar, an adulterer, emotionally abusive and never learned to own his wrong behaviours and never learned to have remorse or a conscience. And that this has all been confirmed in counselling. And depending on the way the conversations goes, I will also tell them their daughter is a drug addict.
They won’t like this, but that is their issue to deal with. I am no longer placating toxic people and no longer enabling them. Continue reading
