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Woman Caught Crying Over Her Daughter Not Being a Cheerleader. Evidently, one woman's boyfriend slammed her for breaking down, as a former cheerleader, and crying because her daughter is not the popular homecoming queen and cheerleader that she once was in school. He tells her that she is disgusting and should be ashamed for behaving that way toward her daughter. He took to a Reddit post to explain the situation.

** This article is based on nonfiction by actual events that I have experienced firsthand; used with permission.**. My friend and her siblings spent years not getting along. I met her in grade school, and we would attend all of our school years together. Over the years, I observed how she and her siblings couldn’t seem to get along at all.

Father parentingDacasdo (Affiliate links benefit author if a puchase is made) Toxic relationships include relationships with toxic parents. Typically, they do not treat their children with respect as individuals. They won’t compromise, take responsibility for their behavior, or apologize. Often these parents have a mental disorder or a serious addiction. We all live with the consequences of poor parenting. However, if our childhoods were traumatic, we carry wounds from abusive or dysfunctional parenting. When they haven’t healed, toxic parents can re-injure us in ways that make growth and recovery difficult. When we grow up with dysfunctional parenting, we may not recognize it as such. It feels familiar and normal. We may be in denial and not realize that we’ve been abused emotionally, particularly if our material needs were met.

Son holding Valentine for motherVictoria Borodinova. All children of narcissists suffer. Sons of narcissistic mothers suffer damage to their autonomy, self-worth, and future relationships with women.

Our mother is our first love. She’s our introduction to life and to ourselves. She’s our lifeline to security. We initially learn about ourselves and our world through interactions with her. We naturally long for her physical and emotional sustenance, her touch, her smile, and her protection. Her empathetic reflection of our feelings, wants, and needs informs us who we are and that we have value. A narcissistic mother who cannot empathize damages her children’s healthy psychological development. Like Narcissus in the Greek myth, she sees only a reflection of herself. There is no boundary of separateness between her and her children, whom she cannot see as unique individuals worthy of love. Symptoms of narcissism that make up narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) vary in severity, but they inevitably compromise a narcissist’s ability to parent.