Narcissists Use Subtle Verbal Abuse to Destroy You

Part II: Examples from my mother

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I was raised by a disconnected mother. I remember being a young girl who desperately loved her mother and wanted to please her. As I grew up and spent time at school and around other mothers I began to realize my mother couldn’t love me the way I saw my friends being loved by their moms. Every year of my childhood brought…