Remember: Narcissists Don’t Think Like Most people
4 min readOct 1, 2021
This is the third year I haven’t called my mother to wish her a happy birthday. I’m not even going to send her a card. Why not? Because to do so might appear as an invitation to reopen the door to our relationship, and I don’t want that. I just recently stopped speaking with my controlling, abusive dad, too, and I have to say, the decision to cut off contact has been the correct one. I wish I’d done it…