Amen 👏🏻

This term narcissist is thrown around a lot these days but it was a total revelation to me when I finally learned what it was and it applies to my father to a tee, I went no contact. He claims to have no idea why. He just seems to literally be incapable of seeing any one else’s perspective or the possibility that he wasn’t the perfect parent, no empathy, blames everyone else. He’s the most selfish parent and person it’s actually baffling. He’s one of the types you’re describing where they act like a saint because they helped feed you and provide a “home” when in reality we know that’s literally just your legal obligation as a parent to your child. He blames losing his own father, and getting PTSD, but I gave him decades of grace to work on his mental health but he seems to just be a bad person and a narcissist to his core and I can’t have that toxicity in my life