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[quote=Anonymous]My dad has always been this way and it started getting much worse in his 60s. He's in his 70s now and he is like a small child in terms of his sense of the world. No understanding of the idea that people have lives or problems that are unconnected to him. He's a pretty classic narcissist though, and like I said, has always been this way. He's actually easier to handle now in many ways because he used to get very angry when everything didn't revolve around him, and also violent. Now he just gets confused and hurt. It's much easier to manage.

My mother has been enabling him for my whole life, but she grew a backbone recently. I'm happy for her, but less so for me and my siblings because this largely just means that we are now expected to cater to their divergent needs, instead of everyone just catering to my dad. It's pretty exhausting.

I very much wish they'd both had better parents and/or a lot of therapy in their 20s/30s. But now it's baked in and we just have to ride it out. Antidepressants have helped make them both a little easier.[/quote]

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