Number 4: Sunken relationships.
The second and equally as common sign that your parents had NPD was the absolute carnage that was any relationship they had. As we mentioned already, narcissists can’t build healthy and long-lasting relationships. That often happens because people in their lives are used as just another tool that they can use to feel better about themselves and be at the center of attention. But that will likely lead to a broken relationship because they can’t do their job which is to care for others and their needs.
If many people come to mind when you think about your parent’s friends and relatives who are not on very good terms with them, that is a good sign that they are narcissists. And that is not the only sign. Even if they still manage to have something resembling a relationship with people, they might say horrible things about them to you or others. Your parents can’t take even the slightest criticism from anybody and they can get aggressive in those situations.
On top of that, manipulating people daily to further their goal of being the center of attention might’ve been commonplace. And if they were not jealous of your achievements, they might have been jealous of other people’s. That’s another sign that they were not the humblest of people.
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