Hey there!
I want to answer one of my most frequently asked questions:
Is it worth it for me to learn enlightened coparenting if I am coparenting with a narcissist?
Parents with pathological narcissism tend to engage in behavior that is damaging toward the other parent and children. It is not so much the loss of contact with the child that triggers them as their experience that that person should be available to them and is not. They experience the loss of what the child provided to them.
These are the characteristics I see in these situations.
See if you recognize any of these characteristics:
Treat child as an extension of themselves, not as a unique individual with their own needs and feelings different from the parents.
Fighting over issues big and small.
Overreaction and drama to imagined slights.
When threatened with the loss of control over their own children, they look to the child to have their own ego needs for love and approval met.
Self absorbed and unresponsive to their...
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