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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a parentified tween and teen caring for my younger brother with severe ADHD. I was a bad experience for us both. He resented me for telling him what he could or couldn’t do. I resented him for the stress it caused trying to keep him alive and for the distraction from my school work. We have no relationship today as adults although I am close with other siblings that I was not assigned to watch. I never asked my older child watch the younger one for more than a couple minutes like if I needed to carry several loads of shopping from the car into the house late at night.[/quote]

Narcissistic parents don’t care. What’s good for them is labeled “good”.[/quote]

My dad was narcissistic, but I think my mom was just trying to survive. She was working or seriously physically ill most of those years. Still it had really bad consequences for me at the time and for the lost sibling relationship all of these years. This set up is more harmful than people realize. Just because it has been done for centuries doesn’t mean it is healthy. We used to marry teen girls off to grown men as well. [/quote]

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