Christmas card from my mother

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#1 Dec 13 - 5PM
Clover18
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Christmas card from my mother

My story and my message board posts have focused on my ex narcissistic husband. I don't think I have mentioned my psychopathic brother or my mother whom I suspect has NPD with narc traits.

My psycho brother did something truly evil several years ago (and is still trying to destroy me from afar). In the process he turned the rest of my family bar one against me.

Due to this, my mother (one of the psycho-brother's sidekicks) who herself has treated me appallingly on countless occasions, has not seen my children since my youngest child (now nearly 10) was a toddler.

This was her choice and eventually it suited me - I need people like that like I need a hole in the head. I still sent her flowers on her birthday and Mother's Day though (I'm not sure why). I never got a Thank You but to be honest, that was okay - it is her presence I can barely tolerate.

However, a few days ago, a fancy expensive Christmas card arrived. I recognised her handwriting on the envelope and thought, "Oh, that's nice, she's finally become human".

Inside the card however, she had written "To S****, L**** and K****, from Your mother and the Grandma they don't know"

WTF???

They don't know you, you manipulative old witch, because YOU CHOSE NOT TO KNOW THEM.

Go on, make me feel guilty for something that YOU CHOSE TO DO.

I despair

Dec 17 - 10PM
TexN (not verified)
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Clover

That is soo typical of a Narc! Make a beautiful thing ugly! Don't mean to be ugly, but I would rather pretend I didn't have a mother if she was going to act like that!
Dec 14 - 7PM
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Clover18

I have a wiccan friend - she says to burn them... that energetically cuts their energy from you... binning is good though... ;~} ~~~~~~~~~ The truth will set you free... but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem Visit My Abuse Website
Dec 14 - 7PM (Reply to #12)
Clover18
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ha

I might go delving into my rubbish bin and retrieve it then...I have got a lovely multi-fuel stove for use on these icy winter days... ...have considered voodoo dolls before now! http://knittingattheguillotine.blogspot.com/ http://stoptherollercoaster.blogspot.com/ http://byebyejekyllandhyde.blogspot.com/ http://libertyfromlies.blogspot.com/
Dec 14 - 7PM (Reply to #13)
Barbara (not verified)
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Clover18

another wiccan 'remedy': write your ex's full name & date of birth on a piece of paper - put it in a small paper or plastic cup - fill the cup with water - put it at the BACK of your freezer. this supposedly helps to FREEZE THEM OUT of your life. Same with his mother, siblings and any other psychos in your life. multi-fuel stove? Sounds like a plan!! LOL! ~~~~~~~~~ The truth will set you free... but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem Visit My Abuse Website
Dec 14 - 7PM (Reply to #14)
Clover18
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Hansel & Gretel

He came to see boys yesterday and as I yawned loudly in the background, he sat by the stove gazing into the flames, looking sad and rambling on about how cosy my house (previously the marital home) is, how like a fairy grotto it was with all the Christmas lights and how he missed family life that he "cherished" so much (excuse me whilst I puke). As I watched his Oscar-winning performance I just kept thinking about an old Hansel & Gretel book I had as a child that had a picture in it of Hansel & Gretel pushing the witch into the burning stove and slamming the door shut. Dear me. And I'm a practising Christian too. What a hypocrite that makes me. http://knittingattheguillotine.blogspot.com/ http://stoptherollercoaster.blogspot.com/ http://byebyejekyllandhyde.blogspot.com/ http://libertyfromlies.blogspot.com/
Dec 13 - 6PM
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I meant BPD with narc traits

I meant BPD with narc traits (my mother) A few weeks ago my ex narc husband said to me, "You have a lifelong problem with your mother. You have a lifelong problem with your brother. Then all the years we were together you had and still have a problem with me. That proves that YOU are the problem." Hey ho http://knittingattheguillotine.blogspot.com/ http://stoptherollercoaster.blogspot.com/ http://byebyejekyllandhyde.blogspot.com/ http://libertyfromlies.blogspot.com/
Dec 14 - 9PM (Reply to #10)
agnesmurphy17
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Whoa!

Even your ex-NH sounds like my soon-to-be ex-NH. This is why one should never tell a N anything personal. It always comes back in some cruel & twisted form. Really the mindf**k. Preying on one's vulnerabilities.
Dec 14 - 7AM (Reply to #9)
time_to_move_on
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hmmm...

she sounds fabulous. Why do people like that turn their problems with not building relationships onto other people? Hmmmm. And what your ex said.. yeah right. The problem is never "us" (as in you or me). My father was nuts (I think he was either a psychopath or a narc, along with his alcoholism), my mother was lovely in so many ways but a compulsive liar. From growing up in an alcoholic family with a dad that everyone else had to revolve around, and never knowing if my mother was telling me the truth...I just find my only problem is that having personality disordered people near me is something that doesn't make me run for the hills. Though I am starting to work on that. Good for you for not seeing the blood-suckers.
Dec 13 - 5PM
agnesmurphy17
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Whoa!

Sounds like something my N would do! A classic. Man. That's tough when it's your own mother doing that sort of stuff. So sorry.
Dec 13 - 6PM (Reply to #2)
James (not verified)
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But what about the children?

I seen this happen with one of my family members as well. Strange but if they can no longer manipulate you they will take the next possible road (and sometimes much easier depending on the child age) and try it with our children. Of course these same children do grow up and then see the different between how others treat them and then how they are treated by some who say “I love you”.. But love isn’t a word only for it is also actions and behavior! Well, supply is supply for them no matter who gets hurt.. Thanks for sharing Clover18 http://james-personalitydisorder.blogspot.com/
Dec 13 - 6PM (Reply to #3)
Barbara (not verified)
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Clover18

ACONS like us have serious problems with boundaries. is there any way you can put that card back in the envelope and return it to her "DELIVERY REFUSED"?? Any more from her... including gifts, etc... DO THE SAME - send it back UNOPENED. Most ACONS eventually have to go no-contact with the family. These are family members - they are related only by DNA and that's where it ends. here's a list for ACONS to talk to other ACONS - very helpful: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Adult-ChildrenOFNarcissits/ hugs ~~~~~~~~~ The truth will set you free... but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem Visit My Abuse Website
Dec 14 - 6PM (Reply to #7)
Clover18
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Binned it

Thanks for the link Barbara Can't return the card. I was so peeved I destroyed it.... http://knittingattheguillotine.blogspot.com/ http://stoptherollercoaster.blogspot.com/ http://byebyejekyllandhyde.blogspot.com/ http://libertyfromlies.blogspot.com/
Dec 14 - 11AM (Reply to #4)
nhtmf
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Hey Clover

My n mom did something similar many years ago. I was in the middle of a friendly divorce and the kids were 2 and 3 years old. It was my oldest daughter's birthday. I was dating a guy with the last name of Campbell. My mother sent to my STX's apartment a card (not even a birthday card) that had on the front of it CAMPBELL KIDS and wrote happy birthday in it. What a witch !!!!! Neither one of my parents have ever acknowled my children other than that. They are now 24 and 25 years old. My parents are wealthy and never so much as given a card for graduation of high school or college or another birthday. Nothing. They have 3 grandchildren and 2 are mine. The third grandchild gets it all. At least myself and my kids did not have to sell our souls though.
Dec 14 - 6PM (Reply to #5)
Clover18
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That is just appalling. Your

That is just appalling. Your children were better off not knowing them. All the wealth in the world does not make sh*te treatment like that any more bearable. My mother used to complain that my children from my first marriage (now adults) never visited her. My daughter told me that was because on the occasions they DID visit her, she would completely ignore them the whole time they were in her house. So they stopped going. My mother used to tell me that she - wished I had never been born - should have had me aborted - wouldn't care if she never saw me again (she has her wish!) http://knittingattheguillotine.blogspot.com/ http://stoptherollercoaster.blogspot.com/ http://byebyejekyllandhyde.blogspot.com/ http://libertyfromlies.blogspot.com/
Dec 18 - 5PM (Reply to #6)
nhtmf
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Know where you're coming

Know where you're coming from Clover. My n-mother separated my kids one of the few times they were at my parents house. They were 7 and 8 years old. The house is huge. She brought the oldest into a back bathroom and closed the door and shook my child all the while screaming in my daughter's face, your mother is nothing but a bitch. She proceeded to bring oldest to the den on the other side of the house and take the youngest and did the same thing. When my kids told me this I was so flabergasted. Then she threw their belongings on the back porch and told them to get out of her house. When confronted my mother denied all and my father just told us to go away. Gotta love it...these are the people who raised me. No wonder I'm a narc magnet.