How Narcissistic Parents Behave: Check Your Relationship With Your Child
Narcissists can be not only spouses, partners or colleagues in the office, but also parents in relation to their children.
It is clear that the child raised by these people will face a whole range of difficulties in the future.
Narcissistic parents should reconsider their relationship with their child, otherwise they will have to spend their old age in front of the TV.
Signs of a Narcissistic Parent
Firstly, these parents consider all the needs, desires and requests of the child to be secondary.
They believe that children should obey them and do everything so that their parental self-esteem remains high.
Secondly, they refuse to take responsibility for making decisions.
They do not consider it necessary to ask children for forgiveness if they suddenly caused pain.
On the contrary, they can make children feel guilty for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Third, they devalue their children's emotions.
In a healthy environment, parents teach their child not only to cope with their emotions, but also to recognize and control them.
In families where narcissistic parents rule, a child has the right to emotions only if they correspond to the mood of the parents.
Children in such families are afraid to show their feelings and emotions, and in the future they try to please others, adapting to other people’s opinions and moods.
Such relationships are harmful not only because their consequences manifest themselves in adult life. The main thing is that such families lack love and respect.
