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So, I saw my therapist the day after writing that (she had an opening, yay!) and learned some very helpful things. Bottom line: I am not screwed, because I am not obligated to do anything I don't want to do. When my mom is no longer able to solve his problems, that does not mean it somehow becomes m...

Juat found this article which I found to be helpful. Melissa, maybe you'd like it.

http://narcissismschild.com/2014/08/26/ ... c-parents/

Hi Melissa and everyone, Paula here. Melissa, I am glad you found this forum too, and that I came back to it after many months to see your post. It gives me a little relief to know that my post has helped at least one person. My situation has evolved. I ended up having three or four therapy sessions...

Thank you Beth. He has never been formally diagnosed. I accept your theory that he never really had NPD per se but rather had some NPD traits that were strongly developed. That's probably the case, since all the books I have read about NPD portray people who are worse than my dad. Hence my theory th...

Hi all, very happy to have found this forum. I'm 53 and my narcissist father is 95. I feel that NPD is a spectrum disorder, with worse cases and better cases. My dad is somewhere on the better side of the spectrum. But he is defintiely on it. Here's the thing. A few months ago, my dad started to rea...