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Narcicistic father. Is he too old for me to take a stand?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 546199" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>My parents don't have anywhere near what you describe for behaviors, but they weren't easy to grow up with or to have around either. But now that we live closer to where they are, there are some things I notice. And one is... the older they get, the less ABLE they are to "hold it together". Neither has Alzheimers. But both are "aging in their minds" - what we used to call common senility. And the less they are able to hold it together, the more they lash out.</p><p></p><p>Your dad might be trying to make it look like a deliberate decision to not hold back any more, but... maybe, in reality, he knows he doesn't have whatever control he used to have, and so to look like he still has control, he is calling it a deliberate decision?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 546199, member: 11791"] My parents don't have anywhere near what you describe for behaviors, but they weren't easy to grow up with or to have around either. But now that we live closer to where they are, there are some things I notice. And one is... the older they get, the less ABLE they are to "hold it together". Neither has Alzheimers. But both are "aging in their minds" - what we used to call common senility. And the less they are able to hold it together, the more they lash out. Your dad might be trying to make it look like a deliberate decision to not hold back any more, but... maybe, in reality, he knows he doesn't have whatever control he used to have, and so to look like he still has control, he is calling it a deliberate decision? [/QUOTE]
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