Becoming a parent after having difficult and/or narcissistic parents #10:
When something breaks, spills, fails, or goes wrong, I still feel panic, my chest tightens, and I can feel survival mode setting in. I know I would have gotten in trouble one way or another for the same thing when I was a kid. But this time around as the parent, I know it really is just a spill, just an accident, and not a big deal.

















