Does every conversation with your co-parenting partner end in drama and threats?
Do you feel helpless to protect your children from the impact of an angry, arrogant parent?
Does your co-parent generate stress and disappointment that leaves your children hurt and confused?
The demands of parenting are hard even when we have the support of a loving co-parenting partner.
But when our child's other parent adds to the challenges of raising our children, day to day life can feel overwhelming.
Individuals with narcissism are incapable of empathizing with the needs and feelings of others. They often insist on having their wishes met, regardless of the cost to others--including their children.
The ongoing conflict generated between a parent and narcissistic co-parent creates insecurity, confusion, and pain for children. In addition, when a narcissistic co-parent routinely undermines your rules and routines, parental solidarity goes out the window.
Join Susan Stiffelman and Wendy Behary to learn more about Narcissistic Personality Disorder. You'll hear about what not to do when seeking the cooperation of a narcissistic co-parent. And you'll discover some of the ways you can reduce the harmful impact of a narcissistic parent on a child's confidence, security, and sense of self.
- A tendency to seek out partners who are emotionally unavailable, critical or withholding
- Hyper sensitive to the moods of those around them
- Never feeling good enough
- Gain self-worth exclusively from achievements
- Drawn toward drama-laden, roller-coaster relationships – especially with romantic partners
- A sense of being unworthy of love
- A sense of responsibility for the feelings, care and welfare of others
- Rushing to maintain harmony and to soothe others feelings
Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. As the author of “Disarming the Narcissist,” Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and an expert on the subject of narcissism, she lectures to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, and the subjects of narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people. Wendy’s private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists and the people in their lives.
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Susan Stiffelman is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, teacher and parent educator. She is the author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence (an Eckhart Tolle Edition.) Susan offers online events for parents around the world on topics like Raising Tweens and Teens, Parenting in the Digital Age, and Raising Siblings. She hosts a monthly Parenting Without Power Struggles membership group, a support group with Wendy Behary on Co-Parenting with a Narcissist, and the Parenting Without Power Struggles podcast.
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for Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
• Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
• Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
• Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
• Requiring constant admiration
• Having a sense of entitlement
• Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with one’s expectations
• Taking advantage of others to get what one wants
• Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
• Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner
