Tag: people pleasing
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Everyone needs to feel important — but narcissistic families tie worth to performance. For ACONs, significance often meant being perfect, obedient, or useful. This creates lifelong perfectionism and shame. Healing means learning that you matter simply for existing — not for what you do. The third human need is significance — the desire to feel…
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TL;DR Parentification forces children to grow up too fast. In narcissistic families, children are often made responsible for meeting the parent’s needs — emotional, practical, or both. This role reversal is called parentification, and it leaves deep scars of guilt, anxiety, and lost childhood. Childhood is meant to be a time of growth, play, and…