Best If Used By…..

My friend Jan had the following line in one of her posts…..”thing with an expiration date.”  I didn’t really notice it the first time I read through.  When I re-read it over the weekend, it really struck me.  That is so very true.  My friendship with the N had an expiration date before the relationship [...]

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Gaslighting – Epilogue

 
To view the other articles in this series, click on the category of Narcissistic Personality Disorder on the right side of my blog.   Be sure to read Gaslighting:  The Narcissist’s Game.  As my friend Jan says, “It’s like coming in after the movie has started…” 
I had no idea that when I wrote “Gaslighting:  A Narcissist’s Game” [...]

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Gaslighting: The Narcissist’s Game

 
To see the other articles in my series, click on the category of Narcissistic Personality Disorder on the right side of my blog page.  For more articles on Gaslighting click on that link. Be sure to read Gaslighting:  Epilogue. 
Victims or “targets” of Narcissists are often nurturing, sensitive, forgiving human beings. It is precisely those character traits that make she/he [...]

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Where is that mute button???

     The other night my youngest son came bounding into my room while I was blogging.  “Hey Mom,” he said, “what’s Male Enhancement?  Dad wouldn’t tell me so I said I was going to ask you!”  There was an impish look to his face…like maybe 6th grade boys have been discussing this topic. 
     I remained [...]

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Adventures in Ironing

 
 
Around this time every year, the ironing board comes out.  I search through the linen closet for the spray starch and the iron, I got as a wedding gift MANY years ago.  (Yes, it is the kind that plugs in…..) 
Summer vacation is over, it’s time to go back to work.  All the office clothes come [...]

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Easy Weight Loss

 

  The N was not nearly as cute in his maddogs.   
     I was talking to a friend at work who I had not seen all summer.  She commented to me that it looked like I had lost weight.  I smiled and said, “Thanks, I’ve lost a little…”      
What I wanted to say was, “Yes!  I have lost weight…280+ [...]

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Small favors

      I could have also named this post “God’s graciousness.”   
Last week as I was filling out my youngest son’s emergency card for school.  I remembered a buried memory of The N.  (Narcissist for those not in the know.)
     Four years ago, I was filling out emergency forms for my children still in school.  The schools wanted name of [...]

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Mirror…Mirror…On the Wall…

                                                                                                                        
Read “Pink Spoons” & “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” for continuity. 
Read “Word Salad” &” Karma’s a *#^*@!” just because. 
When I first ‘Googled’ the phrase Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I thought it was going to refer to someone who was fond of checking themselves in the mirror…”Don’t I look great today!”  What I discovered, left me feeling as though I [...]

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Memories of 9/11

The anniversary of 9/11 is this coming Friday. 
The post that follows this was written one year ago; I had only been blogging for a month. 
Back then, I didn’t have Clustr Maps – I didn’t know where my readers were coming from.  I’m still amazed at the far flung places my blog reaches. 
When I pulled this [...]

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An occcasional lexicon…

 

“N-ternship”….
The length of time that you are deemed as worthy ”NS” by a narcissist.  Sadly for you, the duration of your stay may vary…..During this time span you pay with your sense of self, learn more than you ever dreamed possible about personality disorders, develop a strong desire for red wine and a stained index finger from holding [...]

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