Is the arm-waving thing her new 'thing' like Joey in Friends deciding he needs a new walk
As an aside I keep thinking of the comment last week when Catherine wore the shoes that Meghan apparently also wears (the same brand not the same shoes
Is the arm-waving thing her new 'thing' like Joey in Friends deciding he needs a new walk
Rather shows his age, doesn't it? Trying to recapture lost youth
Someone upthread had remarked that she thought herself so important that she could overshadow the coronation with pics of herself hiking. Yep, she does, and she also has a habit of thinking that she is way hotter and prettier than she actually is. Remember the footage of her getting the red dress fitted/her petulant attitude at the event with that dress? We know that was a monstrosity, and not like got crumpled on the way messy.
Bet she thought, wow, I've lost so much weight and had that surgery so have had a magical transformation, not that I needed it. But my fans must be missing me so let me give everyone a lovely surprise. Let me get 'papped', the plebs will die of jealousy and wonder. She is absolutely delusional.
We see that sort of thinking and behaviour amongst bridezillas all the time, and even people with birthdays - my day, my week, my year, my decade. Experienced it with my narc relatives - I said, so my will be done, my event so everyone has to drop everything for days to focus solely on me. In the middle of the most acrimonious fights, my narc uncle's grandchild was born. So they expected us to drop everything and proclaim the coming of the next best thing after his wife and DIL, and to be in absolute raptures and die to attend all the functions they were organising to welcome the child, who we had absolutely no clue was coming. And for whose premature birth (a huge lie) we had been blamed.
Delusional is too mild and polite a word actually.
Thank youdefinitely agree about stress. We've got some inherited chronic stuff like bronchitis. Should be mild and just inconvenient, but stress makes it into a whole other thing. Plus post-covid/long Covid. One thing leading to another. Not getting a stitch in time.
Tiny update: Doc just reviewed and said this is most likely Covid, given that my oxygen levels are dipping. Will continue to treat as the flu. I could have done without the diagnosis, frankly. The panic attacks are horrendous. Anyway, it's not gone, so everyone should still stay alert and practise safety measures.
Relatively peaceful in the house right now. I'm being more vocal about what I'm doing, mum's mostly sleeping, and I'm getting very irritated with dad for not practising safety measures properly - she loves it when we are in conflict. I'm trying to impose essential survival activities only mode to reduce work and stress, but it's very difficult to convince an Indian housewife when she's in the Indian housewife mode to adhere to that
About mum. It's complicated. She isn't that bad either. Some things she can't help, some things that I guess she learned and can't stop using as a survival tactic. All my grandparents were abusive to my parents - physically and emotionally. Narcs and enablers. Golden children, my parents were the scapegoats. They were groomed to basically fail - not allowed to stand up for themselves, bad habits encouraged, beaten down at every step. Her father and brother used our circumstances to exploit and control me and her financially and legally. She started breaking out of their hold only last year, but has a long way to go yet. A lot of her 'mean' or 'greedy' behaviours stem from trauma. Some are just the only dynamic she has experienced. That household is so horribly toxic. Same with her in-laws, though that side's style was thankfully quieter but more manipulative.
I can't cut any of them off until she does, and she won't. Can't cut her off because they'll use it to cause legal trouble for me. Made sure through grooming and disruption tactics that I don't have the resources or the necessary smartness to fight them. Plus she's a victim too and she's my mother. I do love her. And she's pretty cool at times. Also she's been sick all her life so that has played a huge role. Plus she hasn't had the advantage of growing up with the internet and having access to information about abuse. No one like Tattlers to point out narc behaviour that she could relate to. Plus of course anyone, especially a narc, would deny as wrong their own traits. I used to tell her but I'm the last person she would ever listen to.
I've developed unhealthy behaviours to survive myself, and God knows how many narcissistic traits I've inheritedso I hardly have a leg to stand on. I've just vowed to break the cycle, and seems like the universe agrees = no chance at getting a partner. Oh well. Better single and lonely than to bag myself a male Smegs. Can you imagine the horror?
The Mail are saying he didn't go to BP as there wasn't time.I see the Daily Mail has a story about Haznot nipping to the Palace on his way to the airport. Was there for a mere half an hour.
Guess he went to the post room to pick up his dwindling fan mail and the latest Studio catalogue for Smegs.
Among the many many many dreadful photos there are of him, that's one of the worst imo.
Mystery solved upthread by @Mollywobbles - he used Meghan's broomstick.The Mail are saying he didn't go to BP as there wasn't time.
His attitude to his inheritance is an infuriating. He thinks inherited money is his to keep, and someone else should pay for all his (unnecessary) expenses if he has no independent source of income. If papa won’t cough up, then the poor should put their hands in their pockets. Because he didn’t ask to be a Prince. Anyone else would expect to live off the inherited money if they had nothing else. Well, I didn’t ask to be a pleb and have to go to work to earn a living. I’m not sitting on millions. I don’t have a 16 bathroom monstrosity in Montecito. So fuck off hanger boy.Most people if inheriting significant money from a relative would put it towards secure housing especially if you don't already own property. He's an entitled arsehole. Use Diana's money you idiot. It's a shame how he's turned out as he seems to have one side of his personality quite jovial and easy going like the Harold before MM came along, back when most people quite liked him. The men in suits did a sterling job of hiding the prick side and his wrong choice of wife has inflamed the other bitter and nasty side unfortunately.
I’d love to see the individual family photos ie the Wales’ etc
Recollections may vary, I remember it like this:
Thanks for filling me in.Diana claimed those were Charles and Camilla’s pet names for each other…Fred and Gladys.
"I stick up for my wife, but how dare my Papa do the same".
THIS a thousand times !!!His attitude to his inheritance is an infuriating. He thinks inherited money is his to keep, and someone else should pay for all his (unnecessary) expenses if he has no independent source of income. If papa won’t cough up, then the poor should put their hands in their pockets. Because he didn’t ask to be a Prince. Anyone else would expect to live off the inherited money if they had nothing else. Well, I didn’t ask to be a pleb and have to go to work to earn a living. I’m not sitting on millions. I don’t have a 16 bathroom monstrosity in Montecito. So fuck off hanger boy.
We found out a couple of years ago when my uncle died that my grandparents had won quite a large sum (probably off the football pools) about 55 years ago. They had apparently given most of it to my uncle - their only son - and then left him the rest when they died. The three of them kept this secret all their lives!
We’d kind of put two and two together and guessed something had happened…when I was about five and we were living in Australia, we received a very excited phone call from my grandparents saying they were going to come out and visit us. This was very out of character for them. The pair of them were very tightfisted to the point that even phoning us was unusual and international calls were quite expensive back then. But then it went quiet, and it was never mentioned again. We think they got excited when they realised they’d won, but in the cold light of day their parsimonious natures kicked back in. They never particularly lived like they had money, but that was in character for them. My uncle was always the spoiled favourite, and never worked a day in his life…and yet somehow, he bought himself a nice flat, had a new car every couple of years etc, etc. We’re not talking millions here, but certainly enough for him to live comfortably on his whole life.
My mum and her sister are quite upset about this as you can imagine. They’ve now inherited his flat, and what’s left of the money, but mum’s 84 and quite frail, and as she says what’s she going to do with it now? The money could have made a big difference earlier in her life.
I’d love to see them too!Is there somewhere to view all the official photos/family photos from Coronation day?
I don't think I mind Bea, but I don't want Euge anywhere near Royal duties. They need to give Zara a title and rope her in when she gives up competing. Depending on when William takes over, he could be really short on numbers if his children are too young to take on Royal duties. And they should be allowed their own lives first anyway.I'm not sure I believe he went to BP after the ceremony.
Another thing, I'm also not sure of Bea and Eug. I'm not a fan. Especially of Eug and the suggestion that they maybe called to do royal duties is mystifying as I remember a few years ago there were comments that they were always on holidays, several a year in fact. Don't trust them. Jmo.
She would just have been invited to watch it like APB as mother of the heir.They forget that Diana wouldn't have been Queen as she and Charles were divorced. Just a small detail
The Tindalls would be a safe bet - popular, funny and down to earth.They're too lazy to take on full time royal duties. Remember their continual holidays when they were alleged to have jobs
Yes. I was concerned at first to see William looking elsewhere while speaking (first saw the moment in the recap). Then I realised that he was reading from the card. Felt a bit not-picture perfect, but then this wasn't an occasion where an "I take thee, Rachel" moment could have been tolerated
Thank you. My therapist told me the same thing, so I said maybe I fooled her. I see this is quite a common anxiety. So nice to hear this
Thank youbut don't worry. I can mostly handle her/the situation. It's just that rough times have gone on pretty long and we are all sick now so I'm exhausted and finding it difficult to deal with.
She's definitely got multiple narcs on her head, apart from other people with their own agendas - mostly entertainment - whispering in her ears. That's what she was conditioned to be like - listen and obey insofar it suits the narc abusers. So leaving her be isn't ideal. Not just for our sakes, but her own. Surrounded by hyenas basically.
Organisations here aren't much help. They're mostly just vehicles to earn the board members etc money. Some are genuine, but in this situation nothing much can be done unless she decides to make a change. She did try, which is why we are where we are. Some trouble is inevitable when you try to break out of narc control. Which is why I can sometimes understand the BRF's position.
One breakthrough and everything will start getting better. Mum will still be a narc and have those trauma habits, but I'll have more bandwidth to navigate them.
The nice thing is that she's been calm and affection every time she has woken up, so today might go bettermy infection peak is also over, now have the more difficult cough-y tired stage, but that too shall pass. I'll wash my hair today!!
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