Sally (fictitious name) finally had a compelling image to describe how her adult daughter treated her: Sally was “The Help.” With all its connotations and meanings, it was heart-breaking, but...
http://bulliesbegone.com/blog/2024/2/29/to-bullies-narcissists-toxic-adult-children-youre-the-help
Ruth (fictitious name) had been unable to set boundaries with her 33-year-old daughter for decades, but her daughter simply wouldn’t agree to Ruth’s boundaries. Then Ruth realized she had the...
Paula (fictitious name) realized she’d felt alone and lonely all her life. She’d been the designated scapegoat in her family. Her father had been verbally cruel and physically abusive all h...
Olive (fictitious name) thought she’d been a loving and devoted parent but her 38-year-old son told her differently. He was critical, sarcastic, mean, cruel and abusive. Any time he wanted some...
Nelly (fictitious name) thought she didn’t even know her 26-year-old son anymore; he was so different since he’d gotten married. In his senior year of college, he’d met a girl and within tw...
Mary (fictitious name) couldn’t believe her 33-year-old daughter’s lies and “false memories.” She accused Mary of abusing her when she was growing up, of being hyper-critical, of deprivin...
In a moment of clarity, Laura (fictitious name) saw her 29-year-old son smirk after she’d gotten angry and just before he was about to attack her for her outburst. She recognized how her son ha...
Kari (fictitious name) was successful when facing difficult, bullying, narcissistic people in her business life but couldn’t stand up to her selfish, entitled, abusive, toxic adult son. After...
Janis (fictitious name) worried constantly about her grandchildren. Her daughter had turned against her and was brainwashing the three grandchildren, aged 4-9, to hate Janis. Despite all Janis ha...
Iris (fictitious name) was tired of being verbally abused by her 40-year-old son and especially tired of feeling guilty. He was negative, critical and bullying. He claimed she’d ruined his life...
Hanna (ficticious name) finally let herself accept the truth of what her toxic, narcissistic 34-year-old son told her. He’d been living a terrible life of his own choosing in another town for...
In the previous post, ], I described Gena’s (fictitious name) life as scapegoat-fixer-enabler. She was bullied and abused by her toxic parents and narcissistic golden-child siblings. She grew u...
When Gena (fictitious name) accepted she’d been the Scapegoat in her supposedly loving family, she started on her path to freedom and to her own life, lived the way she wanted. Her narcissist...
Frannie (fictitious name) realized her husband and her toxic adult son were not on the Autism spectrum. The problem was not that they simply didn’t realize how much their behavior had hurt her....
Ellen (fictitious name) couldn’t understand why her daughter had become so selfish and entitled, angry and uncaring, mean and cruel. Ellen knew there were many toxic parents, but she wasn’t o...
http://bulliesbegone.com/blog/2023/1/22/bullies-narcissists-toxic-adult-children-why-so-many-now
Dora (fictitious name) realized her toxic, adult son was using the same methods to demean and control her that her husband had used since they were married. Her son was imitating his father. Th...
Cora (fictitious name) kept thinking that if her adult son only understood how much pain he was causing her, he’d stop bullying and abusing her. He was acting exactly the way she’d seen bulli...
Betty (fictitious name) kept trying to win her daughter’s love just like Betty had been told she had to do when she was growing up. Even when her daughter was a little girl, she’d had always ...
Alice (fictitious name) was stunned when her bullying, narcissistic, toxic, adult daughter proudly announced that she knew what Alice was thinking and feeling because she was an empath. Since her...
Wendy and Wanda (fictitious names) had the same problem but for different reasons. Both their 30-year-old sons had joined what I call “The Cult of Their Spouses.” They married toxic, abusive,...