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Why Abuse Victims of Narcissistic Parents Do Not Recognise the Dysfunction
This is a Hidden Evil.
From the moment that children of narcissists are born we are conditioned to accept the dysfunction, cruelty, and violence.
Children born and influenced in these homes are forced to accept the greatest levels of human depravity such as alcoholism, substance abuse, emotional invalidation, physical and sexual violence and much more besides.
It will be like this every day and the torture will be unrelenting.
The narcissistic cycle of love, cruelty, neglect, discard is ongoing and never ending.
But how can dysfunction be recognised if they is nothing to compare it to? This is precisely what happens in the dysfunctional family or narcissistic household.
From the outside they just look like a family. People have birthdays, they celebrate Christmas, and they’ll even be bothered to come to the school play. However, lurking behind this façade lies something far darker.
Something that even the participants aren’t aware of. In these homes behind closed doors these children are only ever shown what love isn’t.
And this is normalised to the extent that the family members don’t know any different. Children are turned…
