# Do you have a narcissistic mother or sibling? How has this affected you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-narcissistic-mother-or-sibling-how-has-this-affected-you/549619>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-narcissistic-mother-or-sibling-how-has-this-affected-you/549619 "2010-08-08T20:26:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anon2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Anon2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon2020)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-narcissistic-mother-or-sibling-how-has-this-affected-you/549619/1 "2010-08-08T20:26:32Z")

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I have a narcissistic mother, stepmother and stepsister. I am in therapy and AA. My life has been greatly affected by trying to please these people to no avail. How about you?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-narcissistic-mother-or-sibling-how-has-this-affected-you/549619/2 "2010-08-08T22:42:13Z")

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Since you have an essentially duplicate thread going in MPSIMS, I’m closing this one.

**samclem** Moderator, IMHO