Two speakers argue that calling parents narcissistic has become an excuse to cut them off entirely, when boundaries could work instead. They say people use the label to avoid the hard work of managing difficult relationships rather than ending them.
What's out there in the world that you're seeing people speaking about or content or people saying, Ah, you should do this, but you actually shouldn't do that?
It's not so much that something should be ignored, but I do think there are a number of things that tend to get overrated. I'll give you one example, narcissism. There's a lot of statistics around kids cutting off their parents, and I think a lot of it is the narcissistic parents is kind of the justification for it, and it really makes me uncomfortable because You can have really terrible parents, but you can manage that relationship and manage your exposure to them in a way that you don't have to eliminate them from your life permanently.
You can create a boundary.
Exactly. I feel like people are just using narcissism as an excuse to not do the hard work of boundaries.
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