About Me

  • As most of you know, I have one daughter, with my ex-narcissistic husband. I have done an exorbitant amount of research and reading about narcissists and how they ‘raise’ and treat their children. I have also witnessed the negative behaviors and words towards my daughter. She is still young, but has been greatly impacted by

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  • Abuse

    Hey, everyone. Sorry its been a hot minute since I last wrote, but work has been crazy and we’ve been busy as a family. A lot has also happened recently on “the other side” that I’ll write about in later posts. I’ve been trying to decide what my next blog post would be about, until

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  • What is Trauma?

    According to the definition, trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It can also be some type of physical injury. I am certain that most people, young and old, have experienced some sort of trauma in their life. A death of a loved one, an accident, physical abuse, witnessing a natural disaster, witnessing war

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  • What is a Narcissist?

    What is a narcissist???

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  • The answer to this question… is simply no. Everything continued the same as it was before. Now that the divorce was final, it didn’t change a thing. Sly still constantly argued about what was “best” for Chloe, and how to make sure he told me how horrible of a mother I was. Then the bad

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  • Everything was an argument. I spent most of my days trying to explain things to him, and why he was wrong or hurtful. The hits from him just kept coming. Looking back on all of the messages, it does bring back a bit of the anxiety, anger and helplessness that I felt years ago. Narcissists

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  • The day has come, all of your stuff is packed in boxes, you have a basic written agreement about child sharing, you’ve spoken to your child about the separation and upcoming divorce, people are lined up to help you move, and you’re prepared to start off on your new life without the narcissist. That’s all

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  • The A-HA Moment

    I’m going to take a moment and write about that “a-ha” moment when you’re sitting there feeling like you’re losing your mind, and you realize you are in fact dealing with a narcissist. When you’re in a relationship with a narcissist, you often don’t realize it until it’s either too late, or you leave. Truth

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  • And moving on…

    I’m going to try and make this the last post on the basic story line… but that will all depend on distractions as it is Monday. The start of 2015 was the same as all of the years past. In the early months of that year we (by we, I mean I) started planning a

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  • New Year’s was nothing to write home about, but most holidays were ruined in one way or another. January 5, 2011 was a day that would change my life forever, because of the choices I made and because of the actions of one person. I am sure you can guess who that person is. The

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