I Am Reading This Over And Over.

Me and Jesus: Intrapsychically Conflicted

Never in all my decade and a half or so of living with them, did my mother and stepfather ever
not be firmly at home on Sunday night.
They have to work early.
They have to go to bed by 8.
So I am sure they are there.
Have heard my message.
Please let someone answer when I call again.
But maybe things have changed.
Wait. Something defintely has changed.
Me.

Dad: Self-Defeating Preoccupation?

I will call again after I read this over and over:

Being able to deal effectively and adaptively with narcissistic injury at the hands of another person, intentionally or unwittingly perpetrated, is a lifelong human challenge. Beginning in one's earliest months of life, the child is called on to deal with varying degrees of frustration at the hands of caretakers and needs to come to terms with anger and often rage. It is a task that must be dealt with from cradle to grave. How competently individuals meet that challenge may make a huge difference, both for them and for significant others in their lives. Narcissistic injuries may lead to painful and permanent cutoffs between family members and friends. The grievances that fester often do not subside and may for a lifetime obsessively and self-defeatingly occupy the aggrieved individual. One must throughout one's life deal with hurts, slights, or even traumas at the hands of others. At times these hurts are reality-based; at others they are exaggerated reactions. How effectively one manages such experiences makes a huge difference not only in one's relationships but in one's ability to work effectively and be creative, and”according to some (Enright 2001) even in one's physical well-being.

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