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Fatherless Daughters & Toxic Men.
The Wounds I Carry as a Fatherless Daughter Sent Me Straight Into The Arms of a Narcissist.
Being a highly sensitive empath is not why I had so many toxic dysfunctional relationships with men. Over the past decade, much has been discussed about empaths and narcissists. This narrative has been regurgitated so regularly that many believe simply being an empath is why the narcissist was drawn to you.
What if it was actually your trauma that caused you to perpetually stay in toxic relationships with narcissists?
Narcissists exploit your vulnerabilities. They care about your weak spots and empathy is not a weakness it's a strength.
Empathy is not a trauma response that the narcissist can use to manipulate you, but your trauma is…
Can you guess what my giant gaping trauma is?
Fatherless Daughter Syndrome.
Like me, you may not have realized that being a fatherless daughter develops into an emotional syndrome. AKA, “daddy issues.”
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, is the one that observed how fatherless daughter syndrome starts. Freud believed that children go through 5 levels of psychosexual stages of development. While…
