How Patriarchy Became the Perfect Cover for Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Podcast · Apr 14, 2026 · 9m

You weren't imagining it. Your opinion carried less weight. Different rules applied to you. And the controlling person in your life did not have to invent a single justification for any of it, because the culture already built that system for them.This episode pulls apart something most abuse recovery conversations never touch: the way centuries of patriarchal programming became the invisible infrastructure powering the dysfunction you lived in. It was not just one person's bad behavior. It was one person who knew exactly how to exploit a cultural blueprint that had been normalizing women's…