GET IT GIRL!

I mean GOOD FOR HER.

Thank you. I think that is my new mantra. Love that girl :) I don't think I've ever been so happy about an awards show. I just think she's awesome!

This was why I recently started trauma counseling that focused on relationships. I have OCD, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. I hide it well. I take my meds. I was actively in CBT for the past 5 years but I am inheriting 2 stepkids. Their mother is a huge fuck up. I worry that they need one female role model who has…

Stop it. Set boundaries. You do NOT have to accept it because you are the oldest, most settled, or any other bullshit. When he turns up, tell him firmly he cant't stay, you are sorry. Then stick to it.

*Ginormous virtual hugs*

I believe you.

For what it's worth, I believe you.

My mother was never physically abusive. Verbally and emotionally abusive was her thing. There are so many stories I could tell, but the one that really sticks out (and showcases her ability to bamboozle outsiders into believing her to be a saint) is my go-to story:

It wasn't because she wouldn't let her sons read a personal email. It's because they did read an email. Of course reading someone's personal correspondence is an invasion of privacy, but it sounds like something is seriously not right here, and that there must have been something seriously damning in its contents.

I have found that the only people I can really talk to about my cutting my dad out of my life are other people with very dysfunctional family members. Whether or not they have cut off contact doesn't matter- they totally understand that it's heart-wrenching and a decision made fore self-preservation.

Agree! My mom is definitely a "you and your sibling are my wooooorld!!!" type of parent and like to ask just how much we're going to take care of her in her old age. This is particularly stressful to me since my mother and I have very different personalities and while I love her, I cannot stand to be around her very…

This is who I pictured when I read the article.

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

I had a friend like this for several years. Cut her out of my life two years ago and it was the best decision I've ever made.

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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They disowned her because they're narcissistic pieces of shit. Naturally there is something definitely wrong with them because there's absolutely nothing wrong with her. Yeah, I can see why they're not on speaking terms.

she became a fugitive

As the child of a narcissist (my father- thankfully my mother raised me) I can guarantee that grown children do not cut off ties with their parents because the parent did too good a job at building the child's self-esteem or because the parent won't support the view that the child has of themselves. Not talking to a…

I've cut my father out of my life.