What are some common ways that a mothers narcissism can affect her daughters relationships?
Consequently, narcissistic parents oscillate between clingy emotional blackmail when they seek the child’s attention, adulation, and compliance (known as “narcissistic supply”) and steely devaluation and silent treatment when they wish to punish the child for refusing to toe the line. Such inconstancy and unpredictability render the child insecure and codependent. When in relationships as adults, these children feel that they have to “earn” each and every morsel of love; that they will be instantly and facilely abandoned if they “underperform”; that their primary role is to “take care” of their spouse, mate, partner, or friend; and that they are less important, less endowed, less skilled, and less deserving than their significant others. Q. What are the top concerns when daughters of narcissistic mothers start relationships? When their relationships move forward? When their relationships end? A. Children of narcissistic parents are ill-adapted; their personality is rigid and they are p
