Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have a member of our community on today's episode. Her name is Rose.

And she reached out to me and wanted to talk about how narcissism affects children.

So we're specifically going to talk about her experience

with her narcissistic ex-husband

and how that has affected her kids.

Welcome, Rose.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here today. We're really

grateful that you would take the time to reach out. Before we start I want to give a

shout out to all of our listeners. We want to hear as many stories as we can so as you're

listening if you think you know I would want to go on the podcast and share my

story please contact me at an a and n e at btr at btr dot org I want you to come share so that other people can

hear your story and also hear your insights and things that you've learned

along the way so to start out Rose before you understood the situation

what was going on in your home and with your kids?

To start this story I probably should have never married him in the first place.

Unfortunately I met him when I was 18 so I really didn't know anything about

narcissistic people or boundaries or anything like that.

And so he broke up with me a lot of times

while we were dating.

And I'm not sure why I stayed with him.

I think I'm sort of a helping type personality so I guess I felt like I could fix him or change him so that he treated people with kindness and respect.

We dated for five years, then we were married for 18 before I left him.

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