How To Co Parent With A Covert Narcissist. Since co parenting is impossible with a narcissist, you’ll want to switch your model to parallel parenting. Parenting is arguably the hardest work one can do in life, even with a loving and compatible partner.
Parenting is arguably the hardest work one can do in life, even with a loving and compatible partner. It may seem like the narcissist is changing when they suggest therapy for your family, but they will only manipulate a therapist against you. A frequent question that is asked of me by many individuals who find themselves in this predicament, worn down and unsure of how to go about this in an effective manner for both themselves and also their child or children.
Without the attention they so crave, with any luck.
It is not a choice or. Counter parenting is when you are having to spend incredible amounts of energy undoing the damage done by the other parent. Focus on the needs of your children and show them how a loving parent behaves. (this might mean modifying your current parenting plan to make things.