{"id":37289,"date":"2023-08-24T22:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T03:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37289"},"modified":"2023-08-24T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T03:43:57","slug":"father-who-i-saw-as-mr-morality-turned-out-to-be-a-liar-and-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37289","title":{"rendered":"Father who I saw as Mr. Morality turned out to be a liar and a thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was in my late 20s, I started a newspaper company and my father agreed to be my financial backer. But after we had been operating for about a year, he suddenly told me there would be no more money.<\/p>\n

It turns out that all the money he had been giving me was stolen. He wasn\u2019t ready to admit this at the time, though. He didn\u2019t seem to care that it would destroy my company. He just suddenly told me there was no more money. That was my first hint that there was a big scandal brewing back in the town where I went to high school.<\/p>\n

Even after it started, he lied to my sisters and me and claimed nothing was going on. The man I had grown up seeing as Mr. Morality turned out to be a liar, a thief \u2014 and ultimately a narcissist who humiliated all of us.<\/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