Surely? My mum has visited me and my 7 week old baby and she keeps talking to the baby and saying hurtful things about me. Like 'You like me talking to you, dont you? Your mum doesn't speak to you as she cannot be bothered' or 'Your mum thinks she knows everything because she reads books, but we the oldies know a thing or two about raising kids' (lol) or 'You are my light and love and I only want to be with you, do not want to be with your mum or dad, they are boring' And other things said to me equally toxic and hurtful like ' You are not the only one who had a baby' when i complain that it ..read more

I was born with a large birthmark smack dab left center on my face from my left eyebrow, down my nose and under my eye, and another smaller one on the left side of my temple. It's a port wine birthmark. The color ranges from deep red, purple and black. Color depends on if I'm hot or cold. My built in mood ring lol. My mother from day one has been my biggest bully. She told me for 30 years that my dad took one look at me and ran out of the hospital room upset. She has now in the last couple years told me that it was actually her that couldn't bear to look at me, not dad. She would take me to m ..read more

I was blindsided by my sister and wanted to believe she wasn't like them but I was wrong. I excused her behavior because she was abused too but I couldn't take it anymore. How do you know if your sibling is just as bad and enough is enough? submitted by /u/dreamyfauna18 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

In October I went no contact with my family - I called my mum to tell her I needed space and that I was to be no contact. 2 weeks before Xmas mum txts me and says “I know you asked for space but I wanted to invite you to Christmas, we’d love to see you” - I ignored this. 2 days before Christmas my Grandma on my Dads side passed away. So there was some minimal communication surrounding this… as selfish as this makes me, it didn’t change the situation for me. My Dad has never said a nice word about my Grandma and always remarked on how burdensome she was, she lived til 102. At new years Mum txt ..read more

I will start: I can be very self-centered. It was also kind of to protect myself, because if I offered help to my ndad he would manipulate me. So I figured that if I just do me that I couldn't be manipulated. Which unfortunately resulted in me thinking that everyone that wants me to help them wanted to manipulate me. It made me very independent, but I'm now trying to work on myself to offer help and be more hospitable especially to people that offer me things too. submitted by /u/Frogswithbutts [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hi, I'm 29F and glad I just found this subreddit and can get out the craziness that has happened over the past few days. Sorry theres quite a few initials because my family is kind of big. Hope it can be followed. I never pegged my mum as a narcissist until my therapist said it to me. I researched it and everything made complete sense. My mum is the emotionally neglectful narcissist. I have 2 older sisters L & T but the eldest, L, is the golden child while T is the scapegoat and I'm just the forgotten one. Due to a myriad of reasons from physical to mental to sheer bad luck, I've been stu ..read more

And it sucked ass. I strongly feel like they are taking my parents side. Every time I stated my experiences, I was told that it is statement vs statement and we should instead focus on the future. Essentially my POV was denied. My parents deny the physical abuse and excuse other wrongdoings with the reasoning they are only human. My mom rambled about where her sweet kind boy from the past is and why I only remember the bad things under sobbing, making her seem like the victim. In short, I regret heavily even saying yes to talking with my parents anymore, especially with people who are suppose ..read more

I received some really great news last week that is going to be taking a massive financial burden of 37 years off of my shoulders and usher me into my senior years, debt free. This is such incredible news that is going to make my life as someone with chronic illness and disability much simpler, easier, and you know I can say it's been a long time coming. No one in my family really helped me at all when I was younger. Sure, I got a few crumbs from NMs table from time to time like christmas gifts as I lived in poverty for most of my adult life. But the "golden one" got houses bought for them ev ..read more

I (f23) have identify issues, I have possible diagnosis of autism and adhd and PCOS; I have PTSD and anxiety and depression. I have been abused since I was 4 years old and have been bullied since I was 8 to 22 years old from my family members, strangers and people at schools/sixth form/ university. I was raped twice, SA’d since I was 8 years old to 15 years old, bullied physically, mentally, emotionally since I was 8 years old, I lost my hearing at 9 years old and my eye sight in my right eye at 13 years old. I was nearly raped at 17 years old but never happened (it was planned by the student ..read more

I can't really explain it, but yeah. I tried putting myself into her mindset and gave justifications for her reactions, and treated her words of events as truth (even though I know they're not) and pretend like I'm ranting about nothing. I cry, get angry, even have to step back sometimes as I write in the diary, but then I read it back. When I do, it feels so stupid. It feels like a voice in my head no longer has power (or at least has less power). I read it back and realize how bogus it all sounds, and if anyone with a shred of common sense read it too they'd probably think it was dumb and t ..read more