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A review by heathcliff
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
4.0
This book is particularly hard to read if you have also grown up with a narcissist mother/parent. I definitely can’t imagine the extent of physical abuse that Jeanette went through, but the emotional and psychological manipulation and control she wrote about was really difficult to read, having experienced (and continue to) experience similar things myself.
What she says about mothers being idolised and seen as faultless/blameless rings so true. And because of this, it makes it all the more difficult to articulate the pain caused by a narcissistic parent’s behaviour, and you even feel guilt and shame for even thinking any bad or critical thoughts in the first place. How dare you not love your parent unconditionally, how dare you when they have done so much for you.
“I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betray of her, so I stayed silent.”
What she says about mothers being idolised and seen as faultless/blameless rings so true. And because of this, it makes it all the more difficult to articulate the pain caused by a narcissistic parent’s behaviour, and you even feel guilt and shame for even thinking any bad or critical thoughts in the first place. How dare you not love your parent unconditionally, how dare you when they have done so much for you.
“I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betray of her, so I stayed silent.”