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I am several years into healing from abuse from an NPD sister. I have gone to a therapist who helped me get through the worst - the guilt, the extreme paralysis - but I still don't feel like my life is all that it could be. Before I fell into my sisters clutches, I had many suitors and always though...

I want to respond to both issues raised in this thread: Gifts to NPDs and the myth of the loving mother. I sent gifts for one year after I went NC with my sister - against my better judgment. Christmas gifts were another issue on which I saw my sister's horrible treatment of me through the years - F...

I went "No Contact" with both my sister and my mother, off and on, for years. Finally, about 5 years ago I just couldn't take the manipulation, the lying, the blame, the unreasonable expectations that had resulted in a complete lack of my own life and cut off my sister....and soon, thereaf...

Grandmotherof 4 - I so hope you are doing well, 2 years out from this post! I just found this website and can so relate! My mother and sister are classic NPD - I didn't discover this until I was in my late thirties. My mother used by little brothers, 13 years younger than me, and my sister used my n...