9 Signs You're In A TOXIC FAMILY SITUATION |Psychotherapy Crash Course
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- No one wants to separate from or abandon their family or roots.
Having to separate from your family is certainly separating from your "roots."
And for some people, they may carry guilt believing they have abandoned their family.
But what do you do when the very people you trust are the same people who demean, condescend, and traumatize you?
And what do you do when psychotherapy doesn't seem to be the right answer?
Some people walk away forever.
Others seek to learn about the unhealthy family dynamic (i.e., drama) and unresolved trauma (i.e., intergenerational trauma) that has caused everyone harm in the family.
Still other people may decide to walk away from years of trauma and drama knowing the family has little to no chance of being saved.
In this video, I discuss some concepts you may benefit from considering.
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DISCLAIMER: This video is not intended to encourage family estrangement or family separation. It is 1 video out of a series of videos on family estrangement and making healthier decisions when poor family communication and years of trauma/drama has negatively impacted them. This video is supportive of the individual who has decided to walk away or take a break from their family.
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DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:
0:00 intro
1:18 why it's so hard to walk away without feeling judged
3:01 what happens when you decide to walk away
3:50 be ready for the tug-a-war experience
4:30 not being aware of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can cause you harm
5:15 what you may experience after you walk away
5:36 the thought-feeling-behavior connection
6:45 triangulation and the drama triangle
8:02 VISUAL & EXAMPLE of the drama triangle
10:12 the complex family dynamic intensifies
11:12 conflict is often a re-enactment of trauma from the past
12:07 a family that functions in disequalibrium
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Sometimes walking away or putting up strict boundaries is the only way to overcome a negative and unhealthy family dynamic. For more on this topic, watch my recent live chat: studio.ua-cam.com/users/video8Wxaws7qShQ/edit
Listen to Tamara and don't fall for their ploys: Guilt, Blame, Shame and Obligation. If you need to get away from your family for your mental health, do it!
🤗thank you!!
Yes
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What’s weird is they act like they dnt realize they’re the problem lol
For sure because in their eyes we are the issue
True
You can tell some family members what a family member is doing to you. The toxic family member has been doing bad things to you for quite some time. Crossing boundaries and other things. When you do tell other family members about the behavior of that particular toxic family member towards you, it's like they don't really take your complaints seriously. As if you should continue receiving bad behavior from the toxic family member. It is insanity.
When you decide to not speak or be around the toxic family member, other family members may contact you to stay in contact with the toxic family member (in some way or form). It's like some people care more about the family image than what you are going through. Which is extremely horrible and toxic. If someone is treating you badly, you need to stay away from them. Don't let others shame you to continue to get abused.
Yes, I agree with Tamara. Family isn't everything.
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Absolute facts. You can make anyone your family and it does not have to be blood related.
BIG FAMILY 💖 trust me, it's possible for you to be the ONLY one to have to break away from a toxic family environment. Generational trauma is real. Be sure to work on yourself, like you are now 😊
Yes
Don't let them know where you live or where you work
I walked away from my parents and my sister ended up walking away from me because she didn’t agree with my decision. She also has bi polar disorder which is clearly caused by a dysfunctional childhood. She can’t even acknowledge her own trauma. Sad.
Hm...yes.
I got them all. Finally first time in 38 years I can sleep and breath and I didn't have an anxiety attack in a whole year. My nerve system gave up on me 2 years ago and that was the first time I realized I must find my freedom.
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I literally just walked away from my family and I don’t think they even know it yet! I’m graduating from college this year and my family doesn’t support me in any way possible. They never ask about classes or anything. I left my hometown (Nashville, Tennessee) and literally every single time they say they are coming to visit we will plan out a date and I would take it off and right before them coming they will make up a false excuse on why they can’t come. It’s been going on for years. I’m giving my graduation tickets to my mother in law and step father in law because they are so supportive and always show interest in my life and what I have going on. Never once had to beg them to come and spend time with me. Never once had to bed for love and support and they show interest in me. That genuine love. I’m to the point of a parent calls me I will watch the phone ring and not call back. Last time I seen my father he spoke to me and I walked right past him like he didn’t exist and he started crying. My mother is the narcissist and it’s always someone else’s fault not hers and I’m done. I’m done with the jealousy envy and hatred fake love whatever you want to call it but I’m gonna enjoy the rest of my life in peace and happiness and if someone disturbs that they are out too!
Whew! I totally relate. Good for you and congratulations 🥳
I feel for you .. I've experienced the same thing you have 🙏🏽💪🙏🏽💪🙏🏽
This is what happen to me. My family has been so toxic and ignorant. Im mixed race and I called my grandma out on the racism that runs in our family and she tried lying about it and I doesn’t remember all the racist things her and other family members have said over many many years. So my grandma went to my aunt and uncle crying victim. The started blowing up my phone. Text message after text message and call after call while I was at work and when I told them I was at work they demanded through text that family is family and that I needed to answer the phone. I’m a caregiver and I can’t just put my client aside to answer the phone. Anyway my aunt (by marriage) sent a text saying I was pathetic. A few weeks go by and my cousin their son who I haven’t heard from in many years calls me randomly and left a voice message saying how he loved and missed me and was hoping to catch up soon. I know they had him call so I’d feel guilty and fall back into the family. He hasn’t talked to me in years because of the horrible things they make up about me. I never called him back. It’s been over a year sense I have talked to any of them.
Ugh that how sounds so terrible. I hate dealing with racism in public I couldn’t imagine my own family viewing me as inferior bc of my race. My heart goes out to you darling. I’m NC with my family and have also had random family reaching out pretending to just be calling. I spoke to one but didn’t go into details about anything. The other one I ignored bc she was being so fake. It’s such a rollercoaster of emotions going thru these things. One min you’re invigorated bc you think y’all are going to resolve then it’s a let down when your realize no one cares about you and how you feel. They’re narcs and flying monkeys/enablers. It’s a song and dance until I hear you acknowledge your wrongdoings. Until then I’m protecting my peace.
@@mercedesharrison5550 they play with your mind. I think even though it’s hard to separate it’s better than continuing to have them mess with your head then years later we in a nursing home all messed up staring at the walls 😆. Sorry you are going through it also ♥️
Stay strong and always remember you are worthy. DNA does not define you as a person. Kuddo to yourself for self protection and enforcing boundaries.❤️💪👏
*hugs* I've been experiencing a smear campaign myself. I blocked everyone on my mother's side of the family because of it. They are enraged that I have the ability to walk away from their abuse. They think they can bully me. Problem is, I've lived away from them for 30+ years, and I have friends at work, I married a husband who had NORMAL parents, and my friends all have normal parents too, so I have a frame of reference to understand how ABNORMAL my relatives are. :( I am no-contact, and it has brought SO MUCH PEACE and I am now with people who love me and want to see me happy, not tear me down to make themselves feel good. Good people are the cure for a toxic family.
@@mvbigmagic4048that is wonderful you found that healthy livingspace for you. So good to hear, that that is possible. 🙂💝
And your husband never Made you feel shame because of not having a healthy family of origin? That's a good man.
I wish you well! 🍀
U have spoken nothing but the truth. Fam many times are the worst ppl in our lives. I've been so Blessed being away from my DNA relatives. They have been a thorn in my side for many decades.
All I can say is, when you’re finally FREE … STAY FREE … going back only gets worse!! Been there, done that … still healing.
Literally, they will NEVER change & it hurts but it’s truth !! SAVE YOURSELF! Give them over to God & be at PEACE.
When i left my toxic family my mother faked some mystery illness and went around telling people that I walked out on her because she is ill and i didn't want to take care of her.
She always manipulated me by faking illness the past.
This explains exactly what is going on with my family. I stopped some months ago to talk with my toxic parents. My mom always played the part of the victim...my aunt sent me a message saying that I should call my grandma because she (and all the other family members) are always asking about me. Funny how they started to "care" about me only when I moved to France, but for years they never sent me a message or visited me when I was living in Italy, nor since I'm here in France. I hate the fact that my aunt is trying to make me feel guilty saying: oh you know your grandma is getting really worse with her dementia. It's disgusting...I hate my relatives, especially because when I suffered from depression and my parents were treating me like shit, nobody asked me if I needed any help and they were all supporting my parents
I walked away from my mother 2 years ago. She went to every one i know explaining why its really all my fault. 😢 .. i never had a dad and loved her very much. I still love her. Problem is she never loved me or maybe just resented us.
This is my question tho. Im divorced and have been single for a few years. When i date someone new they always seem to want to connect me back with her... why? As if its not ok for us to NOT have a relationship. It makes me feel unsafe with them instantly. Am i overreacting??
I feel like people who are surrounded with people who love and support them will never understand growing up in a world where that doesnt exist.
Very good question. But you know, I would say, when a partner is not accepting our boundaties in that point, it doesn't work. He or she must be one your side. Other way it doesn't work.
Thank You so much Tamara ❤ I was so depressed all week thinking back on the negative words wrapped in so called " love" from my sibling this week. Thank You😁 I used to be a minister. I motivated myself by going to God in prayer. I had pure motives & enjoyed the ministry. My toxic mom & entitled sister harassed me and bullied me daily accusing me of having impure motives for the minstry. Later, I married. He was physically & verbally abusive. When he died, my mom & sis came back around me & continued the persecution. In all it was 40 yrs of this. I left the ministry out of deep depression. My sis became a ministry and used it as a weapon to condemn me to eternal damnation. Now she & the rest of the family misjudge & say the worst things about me. That's why it hurt so bad this week when I was happy again & journaling & making positive plans. Then I saw the accusatory scathing text from my sibling. He said he was saying these things ( weak, selfish, narcissist) from a place of love. He consulted with the rest of the family to come to this conclusion about me he says. He said he is afraid I'll be eternally destroyed. That zapped every bit of motivation out of me. They forget I motivate myself when I am alone. I become strong. They do not want that to happen. I REALLY needed today's video. They already told my sons I am "bad, but I used to be good"They are poisonous. They abused me when I was in the ministry. Now they abuse me because I am not in the ministry and I went no contact with them.
you're welcome! Thank you for watching. I'm sorry you have had to experience this. It's painful when family comes against you, even despite saying they are coming in "love." Criticism of any kind from family (the people you are supposed to love and trust) can be depressing and unmotivating. Praying for your peace.
Get away from ministry. My family has persecuted me from their religious perspective forever. Iam preparing myself to divorce them.
I'm walking Away........they just don't know it....
I understand 😔
My grandmother the matriarch who us supposed to hold the family together has destroyed it. Shes bitter, jealous, angry, manipulative and she hates unity it's so sad 😥
Sheesh the triangulation diagram exactly describes the situation I’m in. My mom is always the so called victim and I’m always the bad guy for trying to get away from my toxic family
This is so helpful for me because this is how it goes when you trying to distance yourself
Hi there I am going through this and have been for years. I even considered even changing my surname. I want my own identity away from them now that I'm older my piece of mind is so important
I am so much better off without them.
Wow so glad I found your channel! And this video really resonated with me due to a situation regarding triangulation that happened recently.... I'll get to that.
I started therapy in June due to my incredibly toxic inlaws and I *just* learned that my inlaws ostracize me, which is a silent form of bullying. My husband is the only boy of 6 children, so I have 5 sisters-in-law that bully me, or mobbing. I've been ostracized so badly by all 5 of them that this abuse has hurt me deeply. I was even told something very cruel by my husband's oldest sister, during the first year of our marriage, and while I was 7 months pregnant. She said,
"You will never be accepted into this family, and I speak for all of my sisters." Unquote.
She said that 34 years ago and those words still haunt & hurt me. After she said that I began noticing how my husband's other sisters were cold to me. Ignored me. Shunned me. Didn't want to talk to me. Treating me like I just don't matter, and they STILL treat me that way. I feel invisible around them because that's how they treat me. Collectively, too! Funny how they ALL treat me the same way, hmm. All these little hurts are like small cuts that have caused tremendous emotional internal bleeding. So I started pulling away from their family get gatherings, but my husband and kids would go without me, while I stayed behind by myself for an entire week. This went on for YEARS. Treatment I did not deserve because I've always been a good & faithful wife. I think they were all very jealous of me, especially my late mother-in-law.
So last summer they all went on another family vacation together this time with our adult son and his family, while I stayed home by myself. This caused a new low in my depression and I just wanted to die. I got really depressed. This new low alarmed me so I knew it was time to seriously consider therapy. But it took me nearly a year to finally get into therapy, last June.
My husband has fun with his family and gets along with them, but now he's finally seeing that when he spends time with them without me that this is hurting me deeply. And he's finally ready to make me a priority and to put some distance between he and his family. In fact he's prepared to say No to the next summer vacation they plan every single year. He's going to stay home with me and maybe we'll do something else together. A few days ago my husband even told me that he's willing to completely walk from his family since it hurts me so much. But I'm the one who feels guilty about that. Please tell me to let him protect me!
His mother just died age 98, about 5 months ago, so the only family members left are 4 sisters (one died two years ago). And these four sisters are incredibly possessive of my husband and they all feel very entitled to treat me like shit but still talk to my husband whenever they want to. But right now my husband isn't talking to any of them. They are all blocked on his phone. So one sister "triangulated" the situation by calling our son, someone she never calls, and asked him for him, involved him in this whole issue by hoping he could help getting her unblocked. We were so furious with her for involving him because our son actually stood up for his aunt and asked us to unblock her. But we don't want to unblock her because she is so entitled, controlling and toxic. We had to tell our son no. But the fact that she used our child to do her bidding is just so inappropriate that it blows our mind. My husband called and confronted her about this but she said she isn't sorry and instead blamed us for why she called our son. Classic narcissism.
They truly believe that they should still be able to treat me like sh*t and still have complete access to my husband. Sorry, doesn't work that way. That was the old Dru. Meet the new Dru!
We are trying to break free of his toxic family, but are having trouble doing this due to the pushback from his sisters and our two sons. I wish my husband's family were more healthy, but they are not. So unfortunate. So we need to get healthy and leave.
Hi There,
Thank you for your comment. And I'm glad you are on the channel. Welcome! I did see your question earlier about your comment being removed. It is here. I see it! If you added another comment and it was removed, that was likely because it was caught by the spam system on UA-cam. Sometimes if there are curse words, too many negative words, etc. listed, the comment will be removed. And sometimes I remove them as well but I certainly did not remove your comment!
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It is difficult trying to move away from or set healthy boundaries with toxic family. It's draining. It takes a lot of stregnth, faith, direction, self-respect, and determination to unravel yourself from these kinds of individuals.
@@TherapistTamaraHill Hi! Thank you for writing! Now I understand what happened with my comments ...
Yes, the whole experience of being ostracized by my in-laws all theses years; and now setting healthy boundaries with them has been difficult & completely draining. I'm working really hard setting healthy boundaries with these toxic people. And I no longer consider them family, they're just "people" to me now. I appreciate your advice, thank you :)
This is a great presentation of, what I call for myself, the domestic violence syndromes. That phrase is problematic because fingers start flying everywhere. It opens up a can of worms, like social credit, no contact orders, family secret emotional abuse, expensive lawyers, missed time at work, etc. The decision I had to make leaving the city and marriage and having a non disclosable location when the children were little was very hard. But I was no longer sexually and emotionally abused. He finally told one of his adult children, age 30 about some of the bad things he did that made me leave because he remarried a woman that made him tell the truth. The youngest recently threatened me with hacking and violence that I could charge him with easily but sooner or later his meth and alcohol abuse will force him into
treatment. I thought about paying for his counseling or having AA people come with me to have a calm intervention but he just got more violent. So the disease goes from one generation to the next in some cases. I am not God. I can’t fix it but I would like to be the hand of AA or AlAnon for him. But today it doesn’t look like it’s in my cards. Take a minute to smile at a stranger. That might mean the difference between suicidal thinking and asking for help. ❤🇺🇸
Love how she talks
😢 I'm in this situation right now , thank you for your insight 🙏 I appreciate 🙏
You are so welcome!! Very glad this was helpful to you.
You are doing the lords work. Selflessly giving this knowledge to those who at this moment in time can't afford therapy or who doesn't have a sound person to talk to like a friend. I just want to say thank you because I believe that your videos will help many people if they are fortunate to find them.
Thank you for existing. I had a therapist in the past told me that I was making up being bullied at school (I wish) and then I just stopped going because what's the point if your school and youth therapist thinks you are lying.
I don't think that I have ever gotten over that hurt and my trust for therapists have really died. My family isn't any better so like I said before I'm no contact for my mental health and wellbeing.
The gaslighting was so extreme in my family that I started keeping journals and writing questionable interactions with my family members and every time they would say "I never said that", "Your too sensitive", "If only you had the comprehension that I do", "Your just like your father". I then had a written record of everything and when they denied the truth that I witnessed I started waking up and trusting myself overtime.
I also moved abroad and it's funny strangers and neighbours treat me with respect and honour even if I struggle with that too to myself. Also, I never have the problem with gaslighting strange right?
I'm not sure if you have online appointments but I would trust you. Thank you for helping and healing people.
Such a great explanation. When I chose to stay away from my parents, I was surprised that the sister I was closest with turned against me. To this day she still tries to get me to "bond" with our unavailable parents because she wants a relationship with them. On my husband's side, we cut ties with his big brother and SIL, and my MIL tried to convince us to "sacrifice" for her, so we could be the fantasy family she didn't have growing up. (Shaking head) Rescuers surprise me, but they also show me their true colors--they're very selfish individuals who lack empathy.
Thank you.
It's so hard walking away because of the reality of having to do so in the first place. But then it gets even harder, so I have seen, when you consider how others in the family may be encouraged (intentionally or unintentionally) to stay away from you. It's truly a complicated mixture.
I play a role of a peace-maker, but partially - if I hear people screaming, I go there to calm down the situation. But can't reconcile everyone, because at times some family members won't discuss and would rather run away to their room and stop talking, and I learned just well that peace means you shouldn't touch them)
But reaching out to people to reunite them seems like too much control or something like this. Sometimes I do care, but can't make myself speak on intimate topics
This is a good point. Even though you are ready to make things better and calm down, that doesn't mean that others are too. That becomes draining at some point.
@@TherapistTamaraHill At what point do those of us that are ready to move on and reconcile simply give up on that family member? I know this is all extremely subjective but I would still appreciate a general idea of when to walk away and how to keep my boundaries up when I'm being weak.
A fiction or non-fiction example would be Amazing.
Thank yoi!
It's hard though, ya know? The inner child still has this magical thinking that things will work out and you'll have a happy family in the end despite reality.
What do you do with a child that does not want to listen and learn about preparing for adult life? What do you do with a child that was hell bent and decided when they graduated they were moving across the country, but still believes the parents kicked them out 3 years later? What do you do with a child that has requested, received and has been offered assistance with various mental health therapies for the past ten years, with little to no progress? What do you do with a child that after numerous calm family discussions/family therapy regarding their past experiences, coming to an understanding, but then never develops of of this? What do you do for a child that makes negative statements and claims about parents to a sibling, then conducts themselves completely different in front of parents? What do you do for a child that has been raised in the same household of a sibling that adores living at home/family life and this child was not treated any differently? What do you do with a child that never decides to introspect on decisions they have made whether it be not keeping employment, damaging/severing friendships, etc. and always blaming parents, friends, coworkers, etc.? This child is 22 years old. I hear what is being said, but sometimes the person calling the parents/family toxic is in fact the toxic person in the equation....knowing the whole story is crucial.
No Wonder it felt like my childhood was robbed from me 💀
I do NOT appreciate people referring to ME as their "RELATIVE." When in truth I am NOT related to them, and I haven't any idea WHO those people are. The question is...why are THEY so obsessed with ME? Because if they do NOT appreciate ME, and if they do NOT approve of ME. Then why can't they ALL just GO AWAY... forever ? This is the question, and there is NO other questions.
They need to STOP mentioning MY name. Period. And they need to GO AWAY and STAY AWAY from ME.
Tamara, You have been a blessing to me… thank you so much for helping me understand everything that happened. It happened exactly how you explained it.
I’ve been gone for 3.5 years now and have been at peace. My parents and siblings are on a completely different path then me and my family.
Matthew 7:13-14
🤗❤🙏Amen! Thank you and I'm so glad that you are finding healing in these videos. That's the goal every single video and I feel like I have accomplished the will of God when I read messages like yours. Psalm 147:3
I'm the second oldest I have four bothers our parents are disease I have always been there for my brothers and they never been there for me. It's crazy how I'm they only sister and I feel like a outcast. When need something they know me .I have been there for their kids but never was there for my son. I have realized that they used me and took my kindness for weaknesses betray me but me emotionally. I have decided to just walk away for my mental health and I know worth.
I went thru the same with my mom's sister her kids. They used and took advantage of me. My kids are graduating in May and I am already hearing a excuse from my aunt for why she cant go, but yet I came to both her kids graduation. She also guilted me to giving her kids things for free.
I am so happy I found your channel!! I decided to walk away from my family due to a ton of trauma I experienced as a kid. I always felt it was due to the fact I am their stepsister! We my brothers and I have always felt like the “red headed step children”, of our family. The unkind things they would say when my parents weren’t around, not to mention sexual trauma I endured!! Since we’re older it’s as if they want us to forget all this and come party and be a family when they never really liked us in the first place! I am soooo over it already!! I tried to talk to my sister about the sexual trauma… she flat out called me a liar! Did not even allow me to tell her my truth 😢 So I cut all ties and now they have turned friends that I have known for years against me! Even ex boyfriends I have dated they have befriended!! It’s so lonely here… but I know why I am being attacked!! Just for telling the truth and pointing out the dysfunctional relationships!
I just had to change my son number. He has an intellectual disability and they invited him to a party. Of course they would envy him to drink alcohol because that is what they do at these parties! But I feel they are trying to feed him alcohol to pump information about what I am up too!! Please send positive vibes and prayers this way as this has been difficult! My dad is now 91 and once he is gone I don’t even know if I will be able to attend his funeral! Just because I am exhausted and just really don’t want to see them!!
The less people you tell, the better.
Wow, Tamara, have you been watching my family this week?!?😅 Thank you, your video really dealt with some current drama going on in my family that's blowing my mind! This helps explain it a lot!
You are so welcome!😊
This is tough and there are no real answers at times to address this. Hang in there.
@@TherapistTamaraHill Thank you for your encouragement! That means so much! God bless you, dear one!
Thank you 🙏And, absolutely, you're welcome 😊 God's blessing upon you.
WHEN I LEVELED UP FAMILY AND JUST PEOPLE I FELT WERE A HELP WAS NOT A HELP AT ALL BUT I FEEL GREAT TO LEARN “ U CANT BRING EVERYONE WITH YOU “ MOST PEOPLE JUST LEFT I DIDNT ASK THEM TO LEAVE AND 2 DAYS AGO RAN INTO A MENTOR WHO DIDNT RECOGNIZE ME AND ACTUALLY AT 76 YEARS AGO WANTED TO FIGHT WHEN HE THOUGHT I WAS A STRANGER…. THAT WAS SAD!!!! WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT IT THE NEXT DAY❤…. WHEEEEW
I needed this!!
Oh Boy .. I needed this 👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent description.
Im so glad to see a women in color in the field. You are living my goal right now. Way to go 😁
Thank you!! And all the best to you if you are working toward this goal.
Very well said! Sounds like my toxic family!
Moved. New phone. New email. No contact.gone
I am so glad I am across your channel. Thank you for sharing truths. I am a new subscriber❤.
Welcome! Glad to have you! And thank you.
Liked, subbed and shared.
I will be watching every episode that has relevance in my VERY mentally dysfunctional family.
Welcome to the channel! And thank you. Join me live on Friday's as well after 5pm. I answer questions and discuss family dynamics.
Need to watch this!!
That's good to know!
Thank you so much for this! Very informative and lots of food for thought 🙏😍🙏
You are so welcome!😊 And thank you!
I feel so seen. Thank you thank you thank you. You get it.
🤗You're most welcome!!
I just discovered your videos & I LOVE THEM ❤
Thank you! And welcome to the channel. Glad this is helpful!
Hi Tamara, I am happy to meet you, I am grateful to find your channel on UA-cam, I need to talk with someone on the professional level. I find you very knowledgeable and caring.
Thanks so much!
Welcome! Glad to have you. Feel free to join me on Friday's after 6pm on my live chats. I discuss these topics and more. Coming up next Friday I will be delving back into this very topic.
They do you wrong and then be madder that you and try to turn others against me
Wow your explanation of triangulation is the best I’ve seen. Thank you! ❤
I come from a toxic and psychologically abusive relationship with my father who is a covert narcissist, I was homeless with him for a very long time, I escaped that and went to go be with extended family that found me on the internet, but what seemed like a gift from god just turned into something that completely hurt me, I was only with them for 3 months because of how difficult they were to live with, and how conditional their love and regard was towards me, it’s just bloody unfair to me how my brother got to have what they called a “privileged life” while I was stuck with my narcissistic father and had a really shitty upbringing that no kid should ever have to have gone through. Yet, people on the internet and even one of my friends invalidates me and tells me “why should they love you” and “oh it’s because they raised your brother and not you why do you think you deserve everything your brother always gotten.” …absolutely ridiculous
and basically if I wasn’t constantly meeting their rigid expectations then I couldn’t be with them, but they’re rich as hell and would tell me that they make a “shit ton of excess money” and they bought my brother his own condo in which he can live in completely for free…
Perfect Perfect Perfect!!
Great video
Thank you! Glad this was helpful.
YES, they hoover
It gets tougher as they age. Just this week my rescuer uncle whatsapped me saying he feels as though time is running out. His parkinson's is really bad, my other aunt and uncles are getting so old and wouldn't I rather get in touch with my psychopathic mother now rather than find I'm at her funeral with regrets...
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
But why do they want you back when they don't like you
Power, control, it feeds their vampiric appetite and warped mind.
Years ago I ran into my mother's sister and her husband at a bar. Apparently shortly after he assaulted her, I was enjoying my burger, I wasn't there when it happened. We weren't even close. They both blamed me for it by spreading the idea that I assaulted her over $10😅
My aunt was living just like my mother. Blaming me for anything and everything. Instead of believing the truth, just blame it on me.
My my. Your explanation of the triangulation was spot on. Experiencing that right now. But thank God, Jesus loves me, and the Holy Spirit leads and guides me into all truth! Life is good ❤ Btw-- to everyone on this site that know this toxic pain, please keep your heart warm and open by praying for those that have hurt you. You are NOT obligated to put yourself in an abusive space- care from afar.
The “victim” is the REAL persecutor that manipulates the “rescuer” and everyone around them. I have this dynamic with my mom and brother. My mom turns people against me who don’t know (because they live out of town) and my brother and her have a codependent relationship. So if I have any issue with their toxic behavior they ostracize me and team up against me. I’m just so tired.
Thank you 🙏🏾
You're welcome!
High-level one. Beastmode.
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Those earrings are lovely on you!
Thank you so much!
What if there are much loved children involved and the toxic parent never calls ot acts concerned that you have distance from,never calls and takes no responsibiliy and tries to flip the script and plays victim.
one in my family told a cop i went no contact. so i had to tell the cop that i thought he behaved badly and needed to say i'm sorry and mean it. and that he would never do that. as he thinks he have done nothing wrong. no fixing that relation for me
I can relate 100%😔🥺😭
My sister was the rescuer for my dad. Ny the time I got through talking. She also cut our dad off.
Hey Tamara, I'm (East Africa), thanks for your kind help,I have a problem with my toxic family, thanks to you, now I know what I'm dealing with,I live with my step Mother (with mental problems and now has stage4 lung cancer), she's a narc and all her children are the same!, her first born is a girl the rest are boys, I'm older than all but I left my boyfriend due to domestic violence and came back to work for my father on the farm,My step mom and her children(they're financially doing well),ganged up on me and put lies on me and my Dad fired me after working for a year without paying me,I have 2 boys to support, should I go to the police or should I try to talk to my Father (he's bipolar) first.Bless you.
I'm leaving the Narcissistic systems town.
They are MAD..
I don't care, they only care It's about my kids safety at Schools 🤯
It ok
Oh wow, I appreciate you making this video. It feels like the puzzle piece ive been missing for the past decade... I'm sending this video to my Mom and then hope she may watch some of it, but I would love for her to watch it all. Beggers cant be choosers though, right?
Yes, absolutely! You're welcome.
It's a tough topic and not easy to swallow for some.
@@TherapistTamaraHill Absolutely... But l have been facing this truth, and I am arguably the weakest in my family. I'm doing it for myself, but also to maybe juuuust maybeeee I will feel like we are a family... I have for sure been ostracized from my family over something that an older family member was basically guilty of by his negligence. That saddest part is I am back to 5 years clean after starting doing Heroin at 16 to self medicate my trauma. I got clean for myself just as much as my family and mom. I couldn't bear putting my family through a 3rd suicide attempt and week long coma. But I've been planning to leave this plain once my mom has left.
Oh really? That's so thoughtful of you, and also a resource that is in extremely low quantities/feasible for most people. I've already been doing therapy for 4 years and have been Diagnosed but there are still some questions I have but don't really want to ask my Therapist or Psychiatrist just yet.
I'll see you on Friday sometime after 5! Which time zone are you going live from?
Hello My name is T. I need to know how to walk away from a very very toxic Family The person both me every single day This has been going on Years.
Not all toxic people are bad. Some of them are simply nice but they compromise our happiness. Same with my parents and my older siblings. They are not abusing me physically but they don't know that they break in my boundary. My only fault is that I can't express what I really want. They give me cold shoulder if I say no even I'm on the right path. Some of my relatives are toxic too. My society as well.
I wanted to ask how to cope being emotionaly attached to one/few members, f.e. my mom, who is in this toxic family Surrounding- and to not have the emotional backup? It is extremly hard to say we break contact forever? What wozld you say
That’s a very good question and one I could relate to concerning my own mother. I desperately wanted to get away from my family but always had an attachment to my mom. So out of respect for her, I stayed. In hindsight, I wish I hadn’t. It exposed me to several more decades of abuse, gaslighting and scapegoating from the rest of the family and actually left me financially broke and emotionally broken after dedicating years to care for her. Ultimately, you are the only one who can answer your question as you are the one who will suffer or celebrate the consequences. My mom is gone now and I’ve since gone no contact with the rest of my family. I wish I had asked myself why I was so attached to my mother, because looking back I can see that it wasn’t a healthy attachment. Instead it was one born of a dysfunctional family system. Maybe if I had known then what I know now, I could’ve done it differently and spared myself a great deal of pain. Whatever you do, I hope it’s the best thing for you. Thanks for reading.
Triangulation is so true.
This is me.
I'm sorry 😞
I ratter go homeless than go back to them.
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