Remember: Narcissists Don’t Think Like Most people

Amber Fraley
4 min readOct 1, 2021
Image by John Hain from Pixabay

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…

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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.