{"id":37279,"date":"2023-08-21T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37279"},"modified":"2023-08-21T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:53:36","slug":"my-fathers-narcissistic-abuse-led-to-my-mothers-attempt-to-kill-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37279","title":{"rendered":"My father\u2019s narcissistic abuse led to my mother\u2019s attempt to kill him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The basic narrative of my childhood was firmly established one Sunday afternoon when I was 5 years old \u2014 when my mother tried to kill my father.<\/p>\n

My father spent the rest of my childhood teaching me that she was crazy. I now understand that my father\u2019s issues with Narcissistic Personality Disorder were at the root of the way he treated her and the way he treated us. I now know that he pushed her to a mental breakdown that day. I had no way to understand that at the time.<\/p>\n

My mother saw what he was \u2014 because his dominant personality crushed her \u2014 but she didn\u2019t have the diagnostic language to explain to anyone what he was. So nobody listened to her. Nobody believed her.<\/p>\n

This is the next in a series of videos dealing with issues that come up for me to think about as I write a book about my childhood experience of growing up with a narcissistic father. You can visit that YouTube channel<\/a> to subscribe to future videos. (Liking and subscribing help me quite a bit in helping others to see the videos.) Or can can watch this video below.<\/p>\n