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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]op: The therapist says my mom enables my dad's narcissism, but there's no point criticizing him because if you stick a pin in his balloon ego, it deflates and you get rage.  She says to limit contact and try not to be reactive to things he says.[/quote]

This is my dad, and this has become my strategy. Every once in awhile I can't stand it, and I point something out, and then I always, always regret it. It just leads to anger, never to insight.

The last time I said something was when he started venting about how his 102-year-old mother (my grandmother) wouldn't take his advice about something having to do with her health, and how difficult she is, and how she argues about everything, and how she thinks she knows better than the doctors, and how much of a burden she is to care for. And I said, "sound like anyone you know?" And he just let loose with how when HE doesn't want to do something, it's actually the better idea because he really does know better than the doctors or anyone else. I mean, word-for-word the stuff he was mad at his mom about, but he couldn't see any correlation. That's narcissism for you. There's no way to create insight.[/quote]

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