So many of us survivors have the same mutual thought – we did not know we were being abused by a narcissist. That might sound odd to someone and may have questions asked like:
How can you say now that you were abused? You were happy and now you are just pissed off because you are no longer together!
There is so much more of the victims world that has been abused and a narcissist shows one face to the world and another at home. We as victims just write that bad behavior off with excuses… they are tired, they have so much on their mind… the list goes on.
Emotional abuse is very real and we need to bring awareness and educate ourselves and our children. Then we can work on the police and legal system.
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Hi, there. It is Tracy and tonight. I would like [to] talk to you about
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life on the surface
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westlife look like
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when you’re with a narcissist
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Life to the average person your friend your neighbor was up the other soccer moms
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Light on the surface being so wonderful with a narcissist because when they’re in public
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They are so God damn charming
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that they just wiegel our way into everyone’s heart and
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For me. I know that when I was in public with to ask my ex-husband
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He was the most doting loving husband you’ve ever seen he was actually
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Seemingly a good step father he would put his arm around my son
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Know them aboard this like they do it every day
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But it was a puppet. I didn’t know it then but I’m a surface I
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Saw what the people were seeing I wasn’t even seeing
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The reality of what was happening at home I?
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Didn’t see it slip away. It was so so when I was married for 10 years, but on the surface
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Just four comma justice of my childhood and I was just at my therapist me cuz you’re going to get the bonus of that
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um I
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Was talking about on the surface of my childhood?
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Boy, did it sound good?
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I
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told myself this over and over
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Please look
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What was really happy I?
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didn’t know that I
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Was being abused my whole Life I?
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Didn’t know that people
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that pretended
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when they were in public
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But they could pretend I knew that meant that they pretended like how could they pretend
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You needa are in us and then you show something or you see that and I mean different play
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He wasn’t like mad dog, Rooney, but when he went home
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She started to slowly Erode and the fun and the excitement
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started to be
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and everything was a
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bit sadder
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He would sit on the chair and watch TV all weekend long
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surround himself with like five different papers
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he was so busy you mean, I don’t know what apparently talking to other women on the end or not but
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Yeah, I didn’t see the surface. I did not see below it. So whatever he was putting out there for the public
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that’s before my shock and
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Now I’m realizing
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That’s what I saw because after what I was used to when I was younger
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You see we grew [up] in Connecticut and lived a very pretty utley aged life
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and
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On the surface it looked great
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but I look back at it now and
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I say
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Why?
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Didn’t we ever go on a family vacation?
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Why does I try to kill myself when I was younger?
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Why was I so unhappy that?
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I wanted to get away I
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Didn’t think of those things
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But now I’m really starting to open up this place
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gee Ryan Pandora’s box of my childhood and up my life, and I see now patterns of
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cognitive distortion of my life with Rosie
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We had good stops
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Here’s a nice house who lived on the water of the boat?
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Life was good
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but it
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Wasn’t to get off that surface
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My parents fought a lot my mother was a raging alcoholic
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She never wake [up] in the morning to let us off the group school. It was pouring rain. She didn’t care. She wouldn’t get up
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We never played games
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We never just sat at a table and played Monopoly I
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Think I’m gonna play monopoly with my son tomorrow by golly. When’s the last time I did that?
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Oh, wait. We’ve been doing kurt against humanity
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That’s a much better game and [Ne23] so it’s kind of funny that he knows more about things when I do
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Anyway, I want you to look at the surface of your life
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Did it look like great in [Grand] so we were fools we were conned
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But I only have two with the neat service to see what things met how
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That pattern that I formed as a young child
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But that was a good life because I had things I got to do cool stuff
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But I never went camping with my family
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never I think we went skiing when I was like eight, but
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We didn’t go on vacations. I’ve never been on a plane with any
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members of my family except for my child
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That’s weird, right
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And I can’t say that I can remember the last time we had thanksgiving dinner. I
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would say
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40 years ago
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40 years ago last time I had Christmas or thanksgiving with any [members] of my family, so of course
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I’m going to adopt the narcissus crazy fucking ass family of course. I’m going to adopt that I one of the family
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this is all command got a derby that’s
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All I got this is tracy please subscribe to my channel
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I am going to be making lots of YouTube and if you’re looking for some extra support
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I have a Facebook group, and it is called narcissist abuse support and
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You just put that into a Facebook group, and it is a closed group, and we’re growing or about 250 now
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it’s still smaller than most of the other groups but
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The people are amazing and they will help you and they will validate whatever you’re going through
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so
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Come join us. This is tracy. That’s all I got
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