This is not healthy relationship behavior. Therapy should be considered in situations like this since therapists are trained to handle this type of behavior.
Some do. It depends on how she has the family roles set up and where she's getting her narcissistic supply from.
Yes. Narcissistic Mothers always do.
I don't think you can, and I understand that almost all NPD sufferers abandon therapy if they do accept it initially. It's too threatening to have their 'real' self exposed to someone, or rather that terrible fear that there isn't an acceptable real person there at all. From my experience of being the child of a narcissistic mother, I would go for the therapy yourself and let them carry on blaming you and anyone else handy for their problems!
The World Mission Society Church of God believes in God the Mother as an essential part of their faith.
Stay FAR FAR away from them both!
The best way to deal with a narcissistic mother-in-law is to "kill her with kindness." This method works on most people, by the way. Be as nice and polite as you can possibly be but don't engage her more than you absolutely have to. Remain calm and don't feed into her narcissism and neediness.
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Jing-mei's mother believes Jing-mei can do anything she sets her mind to
My mother suffered from (undiagnosed) Narcissistic Personality Disorder. During the last years of her life she showed signs of Dementia. My step-mother (my father knew how to pick his women!!) has been, for her entire life, a full blown narcissist with all the traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. She has recently (she is 78) been diagnosed with Vascular Dementia. I have no idea how to cope with it. It is soul destroying to have to deal with her.
You can help your spouse whose mother is ill and refusing help and therapy because helps the spouse what to expect and helps to know what to do at the moment.
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