Proof Narcissists Hate Their Children (My Lived Experience)
A narcissist completely flips the natural parent-child relationship on its head. Instead of showing up as an emotionally mature adult who provides safety and structure, the narcissist acts like an overgrown toddler with the authority of an absolute tyrant. They hand their emotional baggage over to their young son or daughter.
Suddenly, you aren’t allowed to be a child anymore. You are forced to become their personal therapist, their emotional sponge, and their caretaker.
Where is their empathy in all of this? You grow up learning how to read the atmospheric pressure in the house before you even step out of bed. You listen to the sound of their heavy footsteps down the hallway. You study the way they turn the doorknob, the tone of their breathing, and the sharpness of their silence, because you know that one wrong word or misplaced glance can unleash an emotional explosion across the entire household.
In a healthy household, a mother or father wakes up and asks, “What does my child need from me today?” But in a house ruled by a narcissist, the child wakes up every single morning with a knot in their stomach, asking, “What does this narcissist need from me today so that everything stays safe and nobody gets hurt?”
2. You’re Treated as an Extension
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