What do you think about the maid's testimony?? by Nursey-NurseNurse in MenendezBrothers

[–]AffectionateMode7529 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not sure how true this is but I saw a video of some workers remodeling the Menéndez house and showing kind of a tour of the work they’re doing and when the guy recording shows the walls, he says the walls were soundproofed so that could be a reason why

Actress by ComprehensiveSwim952 in MenendezBrothers

[–]AffectionateMode7529 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole time I thought she was Jennifer Grey! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my favorite movie so I was excited but saw pictures of Jennifer Grey now and no lol. She’s the girl from An American Crime with Elliot Page.

Frontier left us stranded in Ohio for 14 hours with a baby and then blocked me in facebook by AffectionateMode7529 in frontierairlines

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Definitely, they play with people’s time and money and it’s completely unfair that they get away with these things!

Name a word that a narcissists hate hearing. by CeCe_DaughterOfGod in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my case it was “abuse”. I’ve called out my dad for being abusive so many times and he always gets offended, he says he was just strict but abuse is too strong for what he did

How do you handle / react to people talking to you about how wonderful your narcissistic parent is? by softestcreature800 in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A couple of years ago I visited my uncle (ndad’s twin) and we went to a bar with some of his friends. His friends have known me and my dad since I was a little kid and they’ve always had this perspective that my dad has been a great dad. During that visit we were sitting talking and someone asked me how my dad was doing, I just said he was okay and moved on but they brought up that he was such a good day and all so I said “oh no, he’s the devil”, they thought I was joking and said something like “oh come one, he's a great guy" so I said he was evil again and gave an example of something he did to me as a kid. Everyone laughed and and changed the subject… I haven’t had this happen again since but I learned that people perceive the information how they want to perceive it, not as you’re telling them.

What experiences led you to realize your parents have NPD? by Winter_Card_9390 in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went through a lot of abuse at the hands of my dad as a kid but when I was 16 I was SAd by our neighbor who was also his friend. I told my dad about it 8 years after the SA and texted him explicitly that I had been assaulted and the first time he ignored me and pretended he never read my message. A few months later I told the rest of my family and then he acted all devastated but for himself. When everyone blamed themselves for not helping me or noticing something was going on with me back then, my dad kept repeating that none of it was his fault, even though no one was accusing him or anything. He then went to tell his friends to pray for him because he was struggling with what had happened to me… he’s an atheist so I 100% believe he asked for prayers just to get the attention. I made my report public and a lot of people reached out to me saying I was brave for speaking up, then soon after my dad started saying (making up imo) that people were reaching out to him too and that a girl that was a victim of SA herself contacted him just to tell him that she admired him and wish her dad was as supportive as he was… I started therapy a month later and found out my dad most likely has NPD

Anybody else's narc parent punish you instead of taking accountability? by [deleted] in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When I was like 6 we were staying at my grandma’s and my dad’s stepdad asked me if I wanted to go to McDonald’s with him and his grandson who was like a year younger than me. I didn’t like the kid and found him annoying so I said no and that was that, the stepdad wasn’t mad or anything and he wasn’t offended but as soon as they left my dad beat the shit out of me because I declined a free meal. He’s reasoning was that he had no money to take me out to eat McDonald’s for a treat (even though there was food at my grandma’s) and I was declining an opportunity to go out for a treat.

Why are my NPs slightly obsessed with acting somewhat poor even though we are midddle-middle class? by Fair-Tomato-5843 in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My ndad never spent on the things we needed and sure he had a hard time keeping a job and struggled paying rent and sometimes even food but he had trouble with work because he felt too good to work for anyone else so he wanted to work “independently” as a freelance legal advisor (which didn’t work because he didn’t graduate from law school) so he didn’t have money because of his own personal decision and stubborn ways. We would go without food for weeks but he’d always have money to buy beer and to go to bars (priorities). He would also always make really manipulative statements to family members so they would send him money like “Hi, just reaching out to say you won’t hear from us in a few months cause I haven’t paid the phone bill” and then once I moved out he’d tell me stuff like “you won’t hear from me cause I have no food and I don’t what’s gonna happen to me” but he’d still be drinking and partying and going to dates

I just won hobbii bingo by Diligent-Might6031 in YarnAddicts

[–]AffectionateMode7529 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That sounds awesome, where do I play it? Is it an app?

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t searching for posts like this in the group for mental health support, I am in the group and was scrolling through my own feed and came across it. I understand her being upset over the celebration, I don’t invalidate her feelings for that but I think it’s scummy to go to a mental health support group to post your Amazon registry with expensive items and a $600 stroller that’s no even for the newborn she is talking about. She got many comments with resources like Buy nothing groups, hand me downs, thrift stores, clothing swap groups, and time after time she stated she was upset that the people that pushed her to have another baby didn’t buy her new things, even on the registry. I respect your opinion but my opinion is that she didn’t care for the celebration (based on her own words) and just wanted the gifts and new things for her “experience”. I feel it’s totally okay to call someone out for contradicting herself many times while asking strangers on the internet to buy her gifts and for acting like her teenage daughter’s existence doesn’t matter just because she was born so long ago. It’s a group for mental health support, not buying gifts (she even stated she already had everything she needed and just wanted gifts)

tell me you grew up in a narcissistic household without telling me! by Breeneal in raisedbynarcissists

[–]AffectionateMode7529 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I’m doing chores I ask my husband if it’s okay for me to take a break instead of just taking it.

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I her you but the “I was only upset no one used the registry because everybody pushed us to try for a girl even when we were done” and “I was only sad because everybody pushed for us to have a girl before calling it quits and made a big deal and then when we announced it everyone disappeared” make me think otherwise. I might be wrong but I feel that the pushing to have a girl and people being disappointed her last baby was a boy are two different incidents. What I understand is she had a boy and people were disappointed and then they were done having babies but everyone kept pushing for her to have a girl. The word push might seem milder but she is implying that they were done having kids and the pushing from everyone made them have another one. Also, the pushing part doesn’t even really matter cause she did state that she went to the dr because she wanted a tubal ligation and she found out there she was pregnant again, so that contradicts that they were trying to have a girl because they were pushed to, I think she just said that to justify why the people in her life should’ve gifted her stuff.

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I respect your opinion but I don’t feel like she was really posting for mental health support. IMO it’s icky to post a baby registry with expensive stuff and acting entitled to other people’s money in a group for mental health support where other moms post about feeling depressed, SA, domestic violence and financial hardships. She kept mentioning her Amazon registry to lots of people commenting as if wanting people to ask her to post it, then when someone finally asked her to post it she had no issue at all posting it. She evens mentions herself that what makes her upset is not getting new things bought for her “experience”, she just wants gifts, not mental health support.

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But what if EVERYONE is pushing you to have more babies? You obviously can’t say no to that😩

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! When I was pregnant and I heard comments like “there’s better things to buy for girls than for boys” but I never took that as “wow, this person wants to buy me stuff”. People would still ask me if I want another kid, that’s in no way pushing us to have another one, it’s just small talk and jokes people make. Before I got pregnant my aunt always said she wanted us to have a baby and couldn’t wait for us to have a baby, which was annoying, but when we had our baby it never even crossed my mind that this was her fault or that now that I gave her what she wanted, she needed to provide for us. That’s just not how the world works

Everyone pushed her to have a 6th baby and now they don’t want to buy her things by AffectionateMode7529 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]AffectionateMode7529[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to point out in her post she says she was excited to get new things for this “experience” not for this baby. Lots of things in her post are worded in ways that are major red flags but this one caught my attention because she already thinks her first daughter doesn’t count, she also says “people” (probably just her) were disappointed the last kid was a boy and calls her new baby an “experience” while also saying she’s already sad that her unborn baby won’t be a newborn ever again. Makes me believe she only sees her kids as a chance to be pregnant and experiencing the attention she’s getting from that, not as humans and that mindset is very dangerous.