You choose. Do we have the glass half full playbook or the glass half empty? The silver lining playbook or the nimbus cloud? It helps to be born with the optimism gene and let life’s little terrors bounce off your… Continue Reading
Life After…Moving To Happy You Have Many Possible Futures – Which One Will You Choose? You may have been told for so long that everything was your fault, you can’t do anything right, you’re not smart, so that all of a sudden you don’t… Continue Reading
Word Salad and Stealth Transaction Fees Oh how clever the narcissist: learning the language of manipulation so that it appears normal. They will act relaxed, laid back, and even serene with you. But the tab… Continue Reading
Did Ashley Madison just enter your life? Maybe it did and you are shocked or perhaps finding your partner’s email there was only validating what you suspected. Either way it hurts like hell. Your trust is gone,… Continue Reading
Sometimes you have to be blunt with your friends to get the message across. I refer to GFE here which means, according to Urban Dictionary, Girl Friend Experience from a prostitute. (No, I won’t deconstruct… Continue Reading
When opposing counsel would call and vow to grind me into the ground until I was gone and the rent was unpaid and the kid had chest pains and his father said when I tried… Continue Reading
When someone thinks they know everything about you – and they get it all wrong it creates some cognitive dissonance. I read this and think, “Who is this? Who thinks like this?” A while ago… Continue Reading
I If we grew up with a parent who suffered from narcissistic personality disorder ( click here to read my article on this) it is likely to have taken a heavy toll on our emotional development. One of the most… Continue Reading
WHY I WRITE ABOUT NARCISSISM I was in a conference room with two attorneys and my former husband. On the chalkboard was this quote: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were… Continue Reading
Sometimes narcissism comes from institutionalized oppression. This is a story that happened to me long ago. I married young the first time around between my sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania, at age 18. We had 2… Continue Reading