getting older.

I've mentioned on another post that I'm convinced my narcs don't believe I can have problems that are serious enough to take care of (ie they want me to ignore things) but also mild enough that I can …

IVF and my beautiful child and my sexually charged (not with me) wife. — I had no idea I was married to a narcissist. She is cold, calculated and beautiful. Great athlete too. Doesn’t light up a room by giving energy. She lights it up with a certain fear. Very successful. …

My ex girlfriend would like for us to get back together — I ‘25 M’ broke up with my girlfriend ‘22 F’ of a 3.5 yr relationship in early January of this year. I received a call that woke me up at 2am from her friend in January she had cheated on me with her f…

How do I support nieces and nephews of narc parents — My brother (narcissist) and his wife (enabler) have 3 kids. The family’s crisis cycle has been managed by grandparents for the past decade plus. These crises range from from marriage affairs to coveri…

Today I Accepted that my Father is a Coward — After years of living with my (F22) abusive, narcissistic father (M46), I have accepted that he is a coward. This mostly stems from our recent fight. Where he broke something in my car, did not tell m…

Do not go back to them — Let this be your sign not to go back. I’m telling you, it always ends the same. They will always find another reason to leave, another reason to block you, another reason to poke at an abandonment wou…

Give me perspective on how to make sense of this /: — My bf (25M) and I (27M) broke up today. We have been dating for 5 years and we have this deep connection that we both have not felt before. We have a strong emotional and physical connection and our…

I'm sorry you are having a hard time. Life in all it's beauty has its ups and downs in all things. Isn't it interesting that these things we hold in such high regard to make them sound great on paper …

I went on my ex’s instagram. I never do, he also doesn’t really post anything on social media, but today I was curious. I scrolled through an album posted a year ago and saw he photographed our dog …

The dudes and their fan base are getting older. Whether they can keep bringing the magic remains to be seen. G-dragon fizzled out even after starting the whole ass industry.

girl you were 20 when you started dating him, and he’s only getting older. You don’t think it’s suspicious that he’s interested in a 19 year old? you’re not seeing red flags when he tells you he’s “bo…

Two things that can make it better: living as a hermit, as you did, and getting older. That's the best thing about getting older, in my opinion.

We broke up because we had a lot of miscommunications, small problems lead to bigger problems in our relationship. We both had a lot of mental struggles as we were getting older. Yes we were both okay…

That attitude to ageing is new and it's weird. I'm 50 and when I was young, getting older was never seen that way. There was a fair bit of ageism against very elderly people, but other than that, the …

You’re an adult. You’re entitled to make decisions about your future that require zero input from your Nmom. Unless Nmom has some kind of financial leverage over you, she has nothing but your own gu…

You're not alone. There was a period in my life where years had passed since I had seen some of my closest friends, people I knew from college. (I'm doing much better: now it is merely a matter of mon…

Thank you for taking your time to reply. I think a problem for both of us is not accepting that we’re getting older. Our hormones are changing, we take longer to recover, more of our bodies hurt for n…

Man that hits real close to home for me. I’m in this wjth you man. I am certain the conversation will end in tears and seeing her cry is heartbreaking for me. I see her tomorrow and plan to have a con…

I can resonate with this 100%. You grow up thinking I can’t have bad parents if they provided everything for us. But I feel my parents are both emotionally unavailable - mainly my Mum, my Dad and me h…