Narcissism in the family is extremely hard to live with and unfortunately as some families are genetically prone to this disorder it may not appear as a lone case.

You may hear people say that you need to learn to not let this person ‘get to you‘ and while that is true, it is nearly impossible to accomplish alone without help.

You see we do not grow a thicker skin to insults over time and what happens instead is that we start to believe the insults and they will start to ‘get to you’ more and more, and if anything your resistance over time will decrease.1

This is not an easy situation to deal with, but if you don’t learn how to stand up for yourself (while also building as much trust and attachment as you can with this family member), the problems will continue to get worse. If you think that this person’s behaviour is difficult now, where will you be in 5 or 10 years from now?

So whether you are facing this disorder with a mother or father, sister or brother or in a marriage partner or with your kids. I cannot urge you strongly enough to put a support network together and start getting help.

When I was facing this with Steve there was literally no one to turn to but slowly and after much heart ache and struggle I built myself a support team. I want to share the advice I learned from them with you, because eventually with a lot of help from these professionals our situation did improve tremendously to the point where we now live as a symbol of hope.