Best Phrases to Silence Narcissistic Parents and Protect Your Emotional Peace

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  • @jerrywise
    @jerrywise  13 дней назад +12

    Finally get your family OUT OF YOU & be the true self you were never allowed to be 👇
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  • @Chichimee
    @Chichimee 22 часа назад +63

    Spending my birthday by myself at home, this really was the perfect video on my feed. Thanks wise man 🙏🏻

    • @sammyjon3s
      @sammyjon3s 20 часов назад +7

      Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful, relaxing day! 😊

    • @sirhamalot8651
      @sirhamalot8651 19 часов назад +7

      Sometime being alone is the best gift! I spent Thanksgiving alone watching football, eating a beautiful rib-eye steak and green-bean casserole. It was better than any family gathering!

    • @Dee33636
      @Dee33636 18 часов назад +5

      Happy Birthday to YOU!!🎉❤💫🎂🎈My birthday’s 1 day before NYE & am from a very toxic family. Totally relate to spending your birthday alone. Better that way. Narcissists will try to wreck your birthday somehow so it can be about them.

    • @shellyelly77
      @shellyelly77 17 часов назад +3

      Happy Birthday hug from me, spending Christmas alone. 💌

    • @athena3865
      @athena3865 14 часов назад +2

      I have done it many times. Happy Birthday and wishing you many more.....

  • @janiebuck2938
    @janiebuck2938 23 часа назад +89

    I am 63, and until about 3yrs. ago, I wasn't sure what sort of disorder my Mom was suffering from. Her moods swing wildly, she feels sorry for herself when the sorrow should be about the other person she has hurt, she hears things, see things, smell things, that aren't there. I have finally figured out that as a child the trauma I felt was a result of my Mom's behavior. I still have problems with her. She is 90.

    • @t-knitting
      @t-knitting 19 часов назад +16

      To a T, I can relate to your story because mine is veeery similar. I'm 60, she is 88 and still expects and tries to control and manipulate me

    • @blanchesplace
      @blanchesplace 18 часов назад +4

      Mine too

    • @TM-dh8um
      @TM-dh8um 17 часов назад +11

      I can also relate. I'm 60 and my mother is 101. I came home from where I've been living abroad (now I know why!) for the last 25 years, for a short visit (a month at most) thinking I'd be taking care of mum while I am staying at her house. That was 2.5 years ago. I've been effectively trapped in the full-time role as her unpaid carer ever since, and every day (despite my having learned so much about self-differentiation from Jerry's content) she still tries to get me back under her control and re-enmesh me with the rest of the family. This need to control and manipulate emotionally, I now understand, was always part of her relationship with all of us. She really didn't like it when I started to get the better of her with language and actions, and I think she'll probably never give up trying. As long as you're obliged to be around each other, it will never end.

    • @AUSTRALIANAMADE
      @AUSTRALIANAMADE 14 часов назад +4

      You can live now with a clearer mind.

    • @athena3865
      @athena3865 14 часов назад +11

      Sounds like my late mother. She passed almost two years ago, the day after my birthday. Looking back, I realize she was very likely undiagnosed ASD who developed many PDs to cope; she had a traumatic childhood and had very odd behavior, though masked at will. She terrorized her daughters and my son. I am finally healing at 66, and Jerry's work has been the most helpful.

  • @mildredbangtree
    @mildredbangtree 23 часа назад +44

    "Be wise!", but not Jerry Wise, there is already a perfectly good one of those.

  • @KirstenLambert-nt8iy
    @KirstenLambert-nt8iy 19 часов назад +21

    I've noticed both of my parents, in my younger years, always focused on my mistakes, and kept bringing them up, trying the guilt and shaming tactics. Later, I got wise and didn't play the guilt trip. If Mom couldn't get her way, she'd try the shame and guilt game. If that didn't work, she'd use her flying monkeys. It would be anybody who would listen to her. Eventually, none of this worked.

  • @LouiseR-d6n
    @LouiseR-d6n 4 часа назад +3

    I am 53 and received the annual e-mail from enabling father, demanding me to placate emotionally immature mother. Thanks to Jerry’s advice, my e-mail reply I sent off a few days later, was plan C… a self-differentiate response.
    I used to reply plan A… over-react.
    Then I evolved into reply plan B… justify and explain.
    But sending plan C was mature, neutral, & empowering to me… simply matter of fact & a copied word for word statement of Jerry’s wise advice from a previous clip.
    It’s taken TOO MANY YEARS to grow & learn through this mess of enmeshment & guilt, but I’m doing it now, and I feel more like me than I ever have.
    🙏 Thank you for your channel 🙏

  • @Kunjesvari
    @Kunjesvari 15 часов назад +9

    This is golden.. i need to put this video on repeat and listen in my sleep. 😅

  • @CatalinaFOIA
    @CatalinaFOIA 23 часа назад +30

    Christmas can be a very difficult time for many. When I was a young kid I was so excited this time of year, some of that has faded however now I'm excited for our child. We parent way different than our parents did and that's a blessing for her. The cycle stopped with myself and my 3 siblings ❤

  • @stella4977
    @stella4977 20 часов назад +22

    Hello Jerry! I’ve been listening to your videos for a year now, and I finally decided to integrate your advice more into my life.
    Tonight I sat down at my desk and translated these phrases you offered into my native language, keeping their meaning the best I could.
    I feel proud of that, because now I will be able to use these responses in conversations in real life.
    Thank you for what you do here on RUclips!

  • @Sirrah9
    @Sirrah9 Час назад +1

    Jerry's gift to us is to equip us with self empowerment especially during the holiday season.

  • @sundown6748
    @sundown6748 17 часов назад +9

    Everybody needs this for this week

  • @bereal6590
    @bereal6590 Час назад +1

    I now hate xmas, makes me ill and im already sick got my visit done yesterday. I came away poorly, stressed and more ill and somewhat upset but way less than I'd normally feel. That's a win for me, coming away from their home not being an emotional hurt wreck. Still got the same gifts I've gotten for the last 5 years in succession though! Urrggh! Still im way valuer than normal, though it was a struggle before during and now after because the stress sets off my chronic sickness, realising and not expecting any understanding from them and least got me through it without loosing my mind. Thank you Jerry and have and lovely holiday ✌😊

  • @FullCircleStories
    @FullCircleStories 10 часов назад +4

    I wish I'd found resources like this 20 years ago, still living with them. That little nagging part of me that says "you could have salvaged the relationship" when there was nothing to salvage in the first place would have had so much more hope at the idea that I could detached from the enmeshment, stopped participating, and built a bridge from there. I will just have to keep this in my back pocket in the meantime. These phrases also seem really good in the workplace.

  • @brightbite
    @brightbite 21 час назад +13

    They either do one of two reactions when I have tried similar tactics: they keep talking about whatever it is, continuing to try to engage, or they start raging at you.

    • @humans_do_stuff
      @humans_do_stuff 18 часов назад +4

      Do not engage. You don't owe an explanation. If you enmesh with the drama, you lose. They don't want an explanation, the content doesn't matter, they just want a reaction from you.

    • @davinxi5926
      @davinxi5926 11 часов назад +2

      Sometimes, it becomes dangerous. Observe and document their actions if need be. It can save your life. If you need to take it to court

  • @mlynn2161
    @mlynn2161 22 часа назад +15

    This is one of your best, Jerry! I love when you give communication strategies and book recommendations!

  • @edwardgreacen1833
    @edwardgreacen1833 22 часа назад +9

    It's like building a puzzle. At first glance, the pieces are jumbled and don't tell a story. Using these phrases, we can help to build a picture of our differentiated self. Thanks, Jerry.

  • @sherylbeamer7189
    @sherylbeamer7189 Час назад +3

    Thank you Jerry for your truth telling wisdom and a very Merry Christmas🎄💕

  • @bassocantante51
    @bassocantante51 23 часа назад +17

    Happy Holidays sir. Bless you for all you impart 🙏

  • @Denise-y2c
    @Denise-y2c 19 часов назад +7

    Being repetitive, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FOR THIS NEW VIDEO & ALL of Your Videos !!!

  • @yvelaine
    @yvelaine 22 часа назад +22

    This So how it is with mother and I . She is 90 , i am 70 and it is still going on . 😏

    • @Denise-y2c
      @Denise-y2c 19 часов назад +6

      You are not alone.

    • @danielswanson9134
      @danielswanson9134 8 часов назад +3

      The best hour in all of my therapy was when my therapist explained what the final years of his parents lives were like. Humorously Dysfunctional. This insight has allowed me to watch my parents in their final years do the same thing without driving me nuts.

    • @bereal6590
      @bereal6590 Час назад +1

      Boy do I hear that. Mine are 80 and going strong, I'm their ill old child. They'll probably outlive me and a till be talking as if I'm a child not an old adult who is ill!

  • @TJtellsall
    @TJtellsall 21 час назад +6

    This is perfect for me today. These changes in dynamics apply for parents dealing with their undifferentiated children too! I'm going to use the "I feel differently" technique on mine. Thanks you Mr. Wise!

  • @carmenpentek-meyyappan6138
    @carmenpentek-meyyappan6138 22 часа назад +9

    This is coming in handy just before the holidays. Thank you, Jerry, and Merry Christmas! 🎄

  • @KirstenLambert-nt8iy
    @KirstenLambert-nt8iy 19 часов назад +9

    Thank you Jerry! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  • @yvonnemasters5078
    @yvonnemasters5078 19 часов назад +7

    Merry Christmas Jerry! ✝️🙏❤️🎄. You have given the gift of peace to many of us this holiday season by your gift of teaching, may God continue to bless you in the New Year!

  • @JinxTheWriter
    @JinxTheWriter 14 часов назад +7

    Just in time! Moms already told me shes canceling christmas to guilt trip me.

    • @JJ_FLA
      @JJ_FLA 11 часов назад +1

      I hope that is a gift and that you won't have to deal with her then.

  • @Blondine9ify
    @Blondine9ify 21 час назад +8

    They hang up the phone or say they can't hear you! Highly stressful with an older narcissist mother if you don't fall in the schedule.

    • @Bobafe77a
      @Bobafe77a 17 часов назад +1

      Yes, my mother did this for years. She would talk over the top of me when I phoned from overseas, repeating
      "Hello, Hello, Hello" and then hang up.
      After that , in my father's later years, when I called to speak with him, she would bang and smash the dishes in the sink loudly, which would invariably lead to us terminating the conversation.
      This is on top of many other behaviours which are mentioned by experts as common in narcissists. She also has wild mood swings, drinks a litre bottle of wine almost every evening and swears angrily when I'm around.
      For years, when we visited for dinner, she would leave the table straight after eating and bang about with the dishes while swearing quietly about my father, calling him an "effing c--t".
      I'm 55 ( male ) now, and my mother is still horrible presence to be around. She is always simmering, ill tempered and wildly trivial with her conversation. There is no personal engagement. Talking with her has always been like talking to a stranger.

  • @violet18
    @violet18 23 часа назад +14

    It's so difficult with these narcissists because they don't stop going at you. At work, a teacher asked me to move a folding table and set it up outside. I tried to carry it but I told her it was too heavy for me. After lunch, she asked me to set up a second table and idk why she would do that if she knew it was too heavy for me. She's so nasty to me.

    • @DrZuli
      @DrZuli 18 часов назад

      Keep a journal. Let the office know. And call your union. They might be able to find a better place for you, or at least make the teacher stop bothering you. If it gets worse, that's retaliation and $$

    • @violet18
      @violet18 12 часов назад

      @DrZuli Thanks for saying that because sometimes I'm not sure if it's something serious enough to report.

    • @JJ_FLA
      @JJ_FLA 11 часов назад +1

      Don't hesitate to tell her no or tell her she needs to help you. That's ridiculous don't let anyone mistreat you ever.

  • @leigh-anneobrien3299
    @leigh-anneobrien3299 18 часов назад +3

    Thank you, Jerry! Empowering, specific response examples are EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for, especially with the holiday season upon us. Most appreciated and Merry Christmas! 🎄

  • @drsarita-questioneverythin3194
    @drsarita-questioneverythin3194 21 час назад +3

    They didn’t mean anything -you shouldn’t feel hurt -how does anyone know what anyone meant ? These are so helpful -I see it differently and I’m ok with that !

  • @darinsmith2458
    @darinsmith2458 19 часов назад +3

    Always great stuff.. The slower the better..

  • @TuxTuxGo
    @TuxTuxGo 20 часов назад +3

    Super helpful. Thank you❤

  • @JaguArchery
    @JaguArchery 21 час назад +6

    No contact is the extreme and only true measure . Till I forget the sound of thine voice betwixt mine ears.

    • @WinnieWamzi
      @WinnieWamzi 12 часов назад

      I agree completely. In my culture, where parents are deified, it is literally impossible impossible to go no contact. I have been trying to find a culturally acceptable way to do it in a way that one does not go no contact, but die of shame and guilt

  • @rosemaryclark931
    @rosemaryclark931 22 часа назад +2

    Thank you so much! Have a merry Christmas.

  • @sirhamalot8651
    @sirhamalot8651 19 часов назад +4

    Don't let the insanity of a bad parent ruin your peace.
    They were horrible as a parent and now seek to lecture you on how to parent.
    They did so much wrong in raising their kids and now act the expert in telling you how to raise your kids.
    They divorced and have the gall to give you marriage advice. even calling you "stupid" for not taking it!
    Do what Jerry says. Be unemotional, keep your inner peace.
    Let them rage all they want and be miserable. That's THEIR choice. You have to choose for yourself rather than letting the narcissist choose for you.

  • @divineone66
    @divineone66 19 часов назад +1

    I suppose I could have been more autonomous, I like how you said you'll get better at this.❤

  • @tiffanyandtheshihtsu
    @tiffanyandtheshihtsu 20 часов назад +1

    This was so helpful, Thank you Jerry!

    • @jerrywise
      @jerrywise  20 часов назад +1

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @IzabelaWaniek-i1x
    @IzabelaWaniek-i1x 5 часов назад

    Thank you for brilliant observations and excellent advice Jerry. Merry Christmas everyone ❤😊

  • @karadevlin1512
    @karadevlin1512 17 часов назад

    Thank you, Jerry for another amazing video.

  • @janicebreaux4956
    @janicebreaux4956 20 часов назад +1

    Kryptonite repellant answers to kryptonite criticisms !!

  • @humans_do_stuff
    @humans_do_stuff 18 часов назад

    Thanks Jerry and Merry Christmas.

  • @AUSTRALIANAMADE
    @AUSTRALIANAMADE 15 часов назад

    Great timing before xmas lunch, where abuse is common. This year, they get a big picture of me for Xmas, big one to put on the mantle with the others, of other family member members. I noticed I was missing on all of them... A set of fridge magnets with the picture too, so it cannot be laid down.

  • @Eyesofthebeholder214
    @Eyesofthebeholder214 21 час назад

    Amen. Thanks and Happy Holidays

  • @MariaSantos-gm7ps
    @MariaSantos-gm7ps 21 час назад

    thanks Jerry wise❤”

  • @dagoelius
    @dagoelius 14 часов назад

    Enjoy your videos you have help me in so many ways. Do you think the narcissism in parents is learnt generational or societal or class demographic?

  • @naturelover1284
    @naturelover1284 22 часа назад +7

    Really why do we need to live to be 90 if we know everything when we're 20 or 30 and never learn we just repeat things what is going on

  • @jannajohnsen1796
    @jannajohnsen1796 7 часов назад

    My narcissistic mom uses frases like this when I want to discuss her unfair treatment of me («Let`s not talk about that», «I have made my decision»). So you mean it is okey to use tactics like that in a conversation? To me it sounds like manipulative ways to avoid commucation and any compomise!

  • @goodenoughgirl8102
    @goodenoughgirl8102 19 часов назад

    I think for me mostly it’s the left over residual stuff. Their slimy voices slithered into my head. God knows I’ve been dismantling that now for years but it feels like I’m going to still be doing that forever and a day on some level. At least it does get better along the way. Main issue really is very often having to remind myself to actually think of myself, care for myself, consider myself. So easy to just slide right into things like over concern for others, over conscientiousness, etc. Best phrase ever tho…It is what it is…I feel what I feel…they are what they are (not what things “should” be or what I would wish or want or hope for etc). Whatever and whoever is in front of me just IS WHAT IT IS.
    That was me tho. Just do it. Early on I def wasn’t “calm” about it. Lol. But it got easier to do and I got to where I cared less and less. (Around whatever with my “parents”). Narcs. Pshaw. It’s just their ego butt hurt. It won’t kill them to be told no or to go fly a kite.
    That’s exactly the concept tho for me. I DO want that simple life. Not that unhappy, stress ridden “secure” job (which did often involve the fam biz).

  • @cc1k435
    @cc1k435 Час назад

    Here for the last minute pep talk. 😂😮

  • @kolik94
    @kolik94 19 часов назад +1

    I am 30. Do you think I stand a chance to change my enmeshment ways?

    • @Denise-y2c
      @Denise-y2c 19 часов назад

      GO FOR IT , DO IT NOW !!!!
      YES, LISTEN TO JERRY
      JOIN HIS PROGRAMS IF U CAN CAN. GO , DO, NOW !!!!!!!

    • @valerieh84
      @valerieh84 18 часов назад +2

      I was approaching my fifties when I learnt what my mother was. Many people in the comments are way older. You are already lucid about your situation, go for it, now. Life is passing you by. It took me 4 or 5 years, but who’s counting when you have a chance at a healthy mental state? You will do it in slow, reflective steps. You are going to do it. Sending you much support. ❤

    • @humans_do_stuff
      @humans_do_stuff 18 часов назад +2

      I'm 35 and only begun engaging with the concept of "narcissism" at 31, when things didn't feel right. At first you feel like an idiot who came late into the party as it all seems so obvious once you read about it, but the fact is you couldn't possibly know, you've been conditioned, so don't blame yourself. It's a long way and hard work but you can do it.

    • @shihtzuluvrtwo6386
      @shihtzuluvrtwo6386 17 часов назад

      Yes you will. Took us a long time, enough was enough. So much more peaceful now.

    • @artandculture5262
      @artandculture5262 14 часов назад

      It affects every relationship, so say yes. Maybe it takes years, but say yes you can.

  • @len1045678
    @len1045678 19 часов назад

    That's my mother she will use it in the form of " The lord" because she is very biblical in her own way and put it on her since " The Lord" is using her, so whatever we accomplish is because of the " Lords" hands and grace is on her and it is pass on to us. It's complicated

  • @Slechy_Lesh
    @Slechy_Lesh 12 часов назад

    15:15

  • @t-knitting
    @t-knitting 19 часов назад

    This is previous

  • @susanamonteiro3000
    @susanamonteiro3000 21 час назад

    🙏✌️❤️⚘️

  • @robinfree107
    @robinfree107 20 часов назад

    💖🙏

  • @Laredo-c7g
    @Laredo-c7g 12 часов назад

    I'm definitely not a narcissist, but all of these responses urk the he'll out of me and seem extremely disingenuous. These sound like the responses I get when I call "customer service" ... just BS and apathy... no actual concern for me or the situation. I firmly believe in treating others the way you want to be treated, and I definitely hate being treated like an idiot, especially when going through something seemingly dire or emotional. And it's not that I expect people to match my energy or anything, I just expect whoever I'm talking to to give a $hit. I mean, I wouldn't bother talking with them if I didn't care about and value their perspectives or opinions or needed their help or something. I also already hear your BS responses in my head as I type this lol I guess I. Just hoping for better, more genuine solutions

    • @LouiseR-d6n
      @LouiseR-d6n 4 часа назад +1

      In my experience, these self-differentiating “responses” were vital for protecting my sanity. I was at the end of my tether. I am 53 and had tried EVERYTHING, every way, and more than once 😮‍💨 😞
      Maybe after enduring YEARS of guilt-inducing, controlling emails/calls/texts, you would be grateful to rely on these responses too, for real. And to finally live in the freedom of self-differentiation.

    • @Laredo-c7g
      @Laredo-c7g 3 часа назад

      @LouiseR-d6n but, at that age, why remain in contact at all? The toxic "relationship" I'm currently in is only because I'm homeless and this lady keeps leveraging money and material things. Pretty sure she smears my name behind my back so that other people don't want anything to do with me, and then she swoops in with money, food, etc... like she wants me solely dependent on her. I can't imagine I'd bother with anyone like this if I had any sort of financial security

  • @trustinsynchronicity
    @trustinsynchronicity 20 часов назад

    I like your content but I would like it even more if you'd just skip the introduction and get to the point?

    • @trustinsynchronicity
      @trustinsynchronicity 20 часов назад

      Please stop talking and just answer the question. Or i unsubscribe.

    • @Mason-vl6ri
      @Mason-vl6ri 19 часов назад +1

      @@trustinsynchronicity Is that a threat? Good luck finding another content creator that doesn't have an intro.

    • @trustinsynchronicity
      @trustinsynchronicity 19 часов назад +1

      @Mason-vl6ri I have Professor Sam Vaknin who gets me to the point faster 😊

    • @trustinsynchronicity
      @trustinsynchronicity 19 часов назад +1

      @Mason-vl6ri You want me here that bad? ❤️

    • @trustinsynchronicity
      @trustinsynchronicity 19 часов назад

      @Mason-vl6ri I do like Jerry Wise's flying monkeys video. It helped my mom and it was a really snappy quick watch.

  • @dynamic9560
    @dynamic9560 18 часов назад +2

    Every video you've ever put out has been helpful in one way or another to me 🩷 Thank you so much, Jerry!

    • @jerrywise
      @jerrywise  3 часа назад

      You are very welcome

  • @subhranshuganguly2246
    @subhranshuganguly2246 Час назад

    parents are never toxic.