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Those of us with- narcissistic parents- do you attract narcissist friends?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 550626" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My father is a classic narcissistic, not a malignant one, but a narcissistic anyway. Any conversation in which he is not the center of the conversation bores him so much that his eyes glaze over. He has always been only about himself. I find just the opposite of you, however, Sig. I can't stand being around people like him and run for the hills if anyone displays any narcissism. If anyone I meet dominates the conversation with "I, I, I, me, myself, I did this, I did this" without listening to anything anybody else says, I'm so gone...</p><p></p><p>My father actually did not get what he wanted from the people in his life. My mother fought him and finally left him (no stroking of his ego at all and he never forgot it. She's dead a long time now, but he's still furious at her). None of his kids tried hard to please him or had particular respect for him...I think we all figured out that he was not very interested in us...that if we didn't do something that he could brag about, he had no interest in us at all. None of us were close to him and he's 88...we stay in touch...but he is always complaining that we don't do him proud. None of us pay too much attention to what he says. None of us really ever did. I was far more traumatized by my mother because she was calculated and mean, which I found far worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 550626, member: 1550"] My father is a classic narcissistic, not a malignant one, but a narcissistic anyway. Any conversation in which he is not the center of the conversation bores him so much that his eyes glaze over. He has always been only about himself. I find just the opposite of you, however, Sig. I can't stand being around people like him and run for the hills if anyone displays any narcissism. If anyone I meet dominates the conversation with "I, I, I, me, myself, I did this, I did this" without listening to anything anybody else says, I'm so gone... My father actually did not get what he wanted from the people in his life. My mother fought him and finally left him (no stroking of his ego at all and he never forgot it. She's dead a long time now, but he's still furious at her). None of his kids tried hard to please him or had particular respect for him...I think we all figured out that he was not very interested in us...that if we didn't do something that he could brag about, he had no interest in us at all. None of us were close to him and he's 88...we stay in touch...but he is always complaining that we don't do him proud. None of us pay too much attention to what he says. None of us really ever did. I was far more traumatized by my mother because she was calculated and mean, which I found far worse. [/QUOTE]
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