Narcissist Parents Leave You Too Little and Too Much Space

Amber Fraley
6 min readAug 11, 2021
Image by John Hain from Pixabay

Growing up as a kid with my brother, we learned early to not have friends around too often. My friends had easy going, friendly parents who didn’t mind if the kids got their own snacks or watched whatever they wanted on television. I loved visiting my friends’ homes where it felt relaxed and at ease, which was totally different than our house. Our parents, by contrast, were moody, easily…

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Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.