Michele Cummings-Ashurst

Diagnosis: Narcissism

Why is does the word and the immense definition behind it seem so new? It has crept ever so slowly into society as a diagnosis, a subject for motivational plaques and the new & modernized label for a control freak. I found myself reading those inspirational quotes regarding persons who are in relationships with a narcissis, and by golly it’s as if these people knew me and boy did they know a lot about my husband! Suddenly I was angry because I had been left out of the loop! Why was I just learning about these most unfavorable traits? And that there was a label for these traits? I had spent 18 years in a relationship, 12 of them legally married, and I shared 2 children with a textbook narcissist!