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Originally Posted by here today
To the OP -- if your mother can't face the pain from her own (likely) abusive background and therefore continues to be self-absorbed and act out, that's certainly sad for you and your relationship but how you handle it is up to you . . . not your mother. Also, she doesn't have to be a full-fledged narcissist to be self-absorbed with a sensitive, fragile, or brittle sense of self. Far too much witch-hunting for narcissists going on these days IMHO.
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I think the part I bolded here is right on point, I'm glad you posted that. People are so quick to call their abusive parentals/spouses/friends/and so on Narcissists, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, etc when in reality being an abusive person is not exclusive to any psychiatric/psychological disorder. Being abusive doesn't even mean that there's anything "wrong" with a person psychologically, sometimes people are just assholes plain and simple.