When your Machiavellian adult daughter has a midlife crisis and scapegoats you

Parents! Vet your teenage daughter's boyfriends! Or, it will come back to bite you in the ass when she hits midlife and blames you for her life turning out different than she imagined it would! Your teenage daughter will lie to you and tell you her boyfriend is younger than he is right after she … Continue reading When your Machiavellian adult daughter has a midlife crisis and scapegoats you

Triggered, Attention-seeking, and Playing the Victim?

Everyone deals differently with grief and loss caused by death. One thing that is universal, though, is that a tragic death; i.e., death of a child or violent death, within a family tears most families apart in one way or another. My family—immediate, family of origin, and extended—has seen within it the cancer death of … Continue reading Triggered, Attention-seeking, and Playing the Victim?