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I Wish My Mom Fled: A Heart-Wrenching Survival Story
I admire her but I wish she did not stay with my dad.
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In 2022, my now husband surprised me with a book “It Ends With Us” — a story about domestic violence — by Colleen Hoover when he visited me in the Philippines for the first time. As I was reading the book, I kind of related my life to the story. My mom was Lily Bloom, and my dad was Ryle Kincaid.
My dad had a lot of insecurities inside of him that he projected on my mom and on other people. He is still doing the same thing now. As a kid, I think he was one of the coolest people I knew. I never realized that he had narcissistic qualities until I was in my 20s. Maybe he’s just not a narcissist. Maybe he has a disorder that ruins his family’s life.
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I looked up the signs of narcissistic personality disorder on the internet, and these were what I found:
