Cara's Mom
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This situation with the Anthony family is so very sad. And I believe there is a history of mental illness and narcissistic behavior that has been present on Cindy's side of the family for possibly generations. My stepdaughter is being raised by someone with a personality similar to Cindy's, and it seems to be both a mental illness and a personality defect passed down from great-grandmother, to grandmother, to mother, to child. These types of women seem charming, sweet and kind at first, but when you get to know them you see that underneath it all is narcissism, fear and a great anger. They view their children as objects to control and to use to make themselves look like the perfect people they aspire to be.
My husband and I fear for my stepdaughter and pray each day that she will be able to survive being raised by such a woman. My husband refuses to fight for custody, but acknowledges that the situation is not good and that once the little girl hits her teens, things will likely explode. I fear this is what happened in the Anthony's case-- which was complicated by Casey's pregnancy. Caylee became the pawn between the two, with disastrous consequences. How very sad.
Wow, sounds like my husband's ex. My stepdtr is a diagnosed BPD, which, apparently her maternal grandfather had. She started to implode in her teens-the ex tried to preserve the "perfect" family facade. Instead of acknowledging the problem, giving my stepdtr consequences to her actions (stealing, physical violence toward family, lying), she ignored, explained away and kept my husband out of the loop-and telling my stepdtr her father didn't care. By her early 20's my stepdtr hit rock bottom-a pregnancy, planning a "wedding" to break the bank-totally manic and out of control-all the while out in AZ away from us all. We finally got her home-away from her violent "fiance", had a miscarriage and she got hospitalized for awhile. At 28-everyday is a struggle for her, her judgement is still off, but she tries and shes staying on her meds. I could've have seen our stepdtr and her mother becoming a CA and KC if the pregnancy had gone to term-hubby's ex LOVED and LIVED to control their kids. Thankfully, the kids are grown and out of the house and can see through their mom's act-unfortunately, they bear the scars, in varying degrees, of a "toxic" mother-like CA is.