Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today's episode is about how invalidating families shape adult relationships.

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So join our support group today at Narcissistapocalypse.com. And now we're going to talk

about how invalidating families shape adult relationships. And a lot of people grow up thinking that if

something is not obviously abusive, then it must be fine. My family isn't an abusive family. So I won't have any sort of trauma. It might be going

through someone's head. You know, there's food in our fridge. Our bills got paid. No one was

sitting around and screaming every day. Or my family looked relatively normal from the outside.

But in many families, invalidation is hard to see it is

not obvious like very overt abuse that might occur and this can be where family environments for a child

the emotional reality is not fully seen or understood respected respected, or room is not made for them.

Sometimes it's because it's a chaotic family.

Sometimes there's an illness in the family or mental health issues that are going on inside a family.

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