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do you live in a narcisstic home? article

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greenberet · 14/09/2017 19:26

pretty apt timing for me

pro.psychcentral.com/recovery-expert/2017/09/ten-rules-found-in-narcissistic-homes/

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TakeThatFuckingDressOffNow · 16/09/2017 06:34

I used to - thank God I don't anymore. Made me feel ill reading that, remembering everything.

I hope you get out of it soon!!!!

SummerflowerXx · 16/09/2017 06:57

Not any more, but I am in a contested divorce with the narcissist, these rules apply to his way through that too. The article is very enlightening. I keep expecting a rational response and I keep being surprised when I don't get one.

The list of how a household should be healthy are really helpful, because I have had to work at creating that household since we separated.

In terms of rigid rules, it took me two or three years to get rid of the internalised rules and I still caught myself yesterday defending something he would have disallowed. Forgetting it is my household and I can allow things I see fit.

It is scary. Yes, I hope you get out soonFlowers

lollipop7 · 16/09/2017 12:22

It's so true.

Once you're out and see it for what it is - an egomaniac's horror show - you wonder how you survived it and endured it for as long as you did.

My ex has created and enforced every single one of those rules and even though I have removed myself and the children he is still trying his level best to implement them now.

greenberet · 16/09/2017 15:25

I'm divorced from one recently but summer mine too - extremely acrimonious -

I'm now still battling with the aftermath of not getting a fair financial settlement due to his manipulation and the fallout impacting on the kids.

I still feel like I am being abused - and he left 3 years ago - I cannot yet start to recover

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KickAssAngel · 16/09/2017 15:37

I grew up with a lot of that. I used to also think that my home had to be like that because following the rules is the right thing to do. I constantly used to judge what we were doing by whether my parents would approve.

We now live thousands of miles away and I have finally (mainly) got rid of the internal voice telling me off all the time. I'm also working really hard on not letting myself become like this (the article says how these get passed down. I was in danger of replicating this because I thought it was my duty to act this way! It's so not how I actually feel, I realize).

When we go to visit family, it is really very obvious how different things are. We often do the same activities, ie go out for a walk, but we don't do it in the same stressful, we must stick to the rules, kind of way.

I'm also very keen on letting DD make her own decisions. She's 14, and I'm really trying to teach her that her own feelings and decisions are good & valid ones (most of the time).

SummerflowerXx · 16/09/2017 16:12

Yes, it is nearly five years since we separated, I expected matters to be resolved within 12-24 months, it is crazy.

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