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[quote=Anonymous]I just received a crazy email from my narcissistic aunt. She makes my kids very uncomfortable so when she pulled my teenage daughter aside I interrupted her. She was enraged. At one point she started yelling at me and I just walked away. She started chasing me yelling how this was her family not mine. I was not going to make a scene at the event and start yelling back so I just kept evading her. DH and another aunt intervened telling her to stop it. She just glared at me the rest of the night.

She just sent me a long crazy email. She has recast every incident when we have politely declined her demands to get access to our kids as some sort of evil attack on her. It flows between delusion, grandiose statements about herself and attacks on me and how mentally ill I must be to not allow her to have the kids. Its filled with demands for immediate apologies to her and to recognize her importance, how she will not tolerate being denied, all caps and lots of exclamation points. It is a scary look into how her mind work.

She is a full blown narcissist.

My first reaction was to simply send a short email telling her that neither I nor my husband owe her an apology and that she is to leave us and our kids alone. I am tempted to tell her that she is a narcissist but I have read that for narcissists they don't care. They feed off negative and positive attention. By responding in any way, I am simply feeding her. If I don't respond will she simply escalate to another level because she isn't getting attention from us? I'm not sure what I need to do to get her to stop being obsessed with us. The rest of the family knows full well that she is crazy and its an extended joke with all the in laws. I don't think she has ever gone this far before but she has a deep obsession, particularly with my daughter. What do I do? [/quote]

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