My sister sent me this, and I think it’s brilliant. \u00a0It certainly describes my experience with Mother, and why it took me so long to recognize my positive gifts.<\/p>\n
When a malignant narcissist attempts to insult you, it\u2019s in reality a \u201ccompliment\u201d even though it wasn\u2019t intended that way from their end.\u00a0 <\/span>Because what they are really saying is \u201cYou threaten me.\u00a0 <\/span>Your light shines too brightly, that\u2019s why I have to dim it.\u00a0 <\/span>You have too much support in your corner, that\u2019s why I have to try to alienate and isolate you.\u00a0 <\/span>You are too visible in\u00a0 <\/span>your gifts and assets, that\u2019s why I have to shame you into hiding yourself. \u00a0 <\/span>Your inner and outer beauty are too apparent, that\u2019s why I have to make you doubt yourself.\u00a0 <\/span>Your intelligence, intuition and discernment are razor sharp, that\u2019s why I have to gaslight you into disbelieving it.\u00a0 <\/span>Your voice is too powerful, that\u2019s why I have to silence it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My sister sent me this, and I think it’s brilliant. \u00a0It certainly describes my experience with Mother, and why it took me so long to recognize my positive gifts. When a malignant narcissist attempts to insult you, it\u2019s in reality … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakdown","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}