Emotional Dumping

The Covert Narcissism Podcast · Dec 4, 2022 · 19m

I said to a friend once, “I am afraid to leave my boys at home alone with their father.”

She said, “That is quite alarming and not okay. Why do you say that?’”

I realized right then how incredibly difficult this is to explain. I was not afraid for their physical safety. He wasn’t going to hit them. He wasn’t going to throw things and scare them. Most of the time, he wasn’t even going to yell at them.

But he was going to emotionally dump on them. They were trapped victims to this horrible form of emotional abuse. Something I was even struggling to defend against. They stood no chance.

Venting…