Wonderful way to explain the emotional roller coaster of co-dependency in a narrative Ryan Breen

My ex-wife is an alcoholic. That doesn’t mean she’s necessarily a narcissist. It just comes with many of the same behaviors.

When I finally began to understand her childhood, my childhood and the trauma that we both brought to our marriage, I couldn’t stay angry at her any more. And that was helpful.

I explain it below, in an article that isn’t curated or distributed by Medium Editors because it does not conform to the textbook pablum, self-indulgent personal stories of victimhood typical of Medium.

But it sure did help me to write it, and it turned out to be my most popular article ever.

Narcissists Are Made, Not Born