by Julie Townsend | Sep 23, 2021 | Letters
In January 2007 Gordon and I were still going to counselling at Relate. It made no difference to him. He used the counsellor as someone to tell about how mad, crazy, deluded, metally ill and beyond hope I was. He told me that Carol the Relate Counsellor told him that...
by Julie Townsend | Sep 22, 2021 | Letters
The narcissist called me ‘mad’, ‘mad woman’, ‘crazy’, ‘mentally deranged’ and ‘beyond hope’, ‘up the pole’ etc. etc. out entire married life. He liked to say those things in front of the children...
by Julie Townsend | Sep 22, 2021 | Letters
By August 2005 I knew things were over. I was sick of the verbal abuse, ridicules. sniggering, gaslighting and all round sarcasm and negativity from the narcissist. The narcissism left twice and moved into rental property. Each time he moved back in because the...
by Julie Townsend | Sep 22, 2021 | Letters
The narcissist by his own omission did not want children. During one conversation he told me that I should thank him for being a sperm donor. The way he was with the children clearly showed that he did not want children and has no clue what being a parent means. The...
by Julie Townsend | Sep 21, 2021 | Letters
The narcissist moaned and complained about money since the day we met. This felt comfortable to me as I came from a poor background myself. When we first lived together we could not go out at the weekends as he told me ‘we can’t afford it.’ I...
by Julie Townsend | Sep 21, 2021 | Letters
This was written on 30th July 2006 when the verbal abuse got even worse. When I think of it now I feel angry! It was relentless. The sniggering, the eye rolling, the mimicking, the undermining, being called mad woman constantly. I don’t know how I survived it...