If you fit this category, you need to hear this

When the child stops providing that (by growing up, having their own needs, or simply not being the fantasy the parent projected), the parent turns on them. The child becomes a disappointment rather than a mirror.

Hang the Clancy Clan ☠️🦄🧙🏾

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and it has a name in psychology: "narcissistic supply." A child can become a source of validation for a parent—someone who reflects back the parent's image of themselves as loving, important, or needed.

It would be interesting to publish a list of members of that club.

This was a really good episode.

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