I think she's narrowed her world down so much that the girls are her main if not only day-to-day victims now and she needs that audience to both adore her, to villainise and to victimise. Plus she's terrified of abandonment and rejection. She's like some monstrous beast who will keep the girls as her prey, to feed her narc ego on. Idk how true it is but there are a lot of rumours that certain "celebrity" mothers pimp their daughters out as "yacht girls." Sadly I can see Alice attempting to go down this route. I don't think she'll ever let those kids go. Even if Ella turns into a hellion on wheels, Alice will revel in the dramatics and play victim online about how the divorce and cruel, neglectful dad abandoning Ella ruined her sweet daughter.Something tells me that if she does get 100% physical custody she is going to lose interest in those kids right quick as they’ve served their purpose as chess pieces and have no further value to her other than feeding her narc ego.
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Unless and until the girls go completely no contact with her she will always try to hoover them back up, to get a rise out of them. How long has she been no contact with her father and stepmother, and she still periodically takes jabs at them? The girls aren't just her cash cows, they unwittingly feed her narc needs in so many ways and she's never going to willingly let them go.They're her narc supply always telling her how much they ADORE her. Maybe, after AFE's told them how alone she is blah blah blah. They're her money makers too - first for child support and then for jobs they might get. If we have learnt anything it's how possessive AFE is. She didn't even want to let go of a sham marriage ffs and used blackmail to try and stop it.
That said, her idea of parenting is no rules and everyone looking at devices all day so in that sense they won't get much from her. They serve her interests far more than she serves them.
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Longer than that imo
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Can we have a pre-arranged Bat signal so we all know where we're going and when? I don't want to get lost or lose anyone else in the exodus.As if tattlers wouldn't flee to another gossip site.
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I am afraid so.My baby sister's biggest worry was that after she is gone (sadly she died of cancer early this week -- at present, the words cannot really describe my hurt), her narc husband will use their kids for his supply and drain them like he drained her.
As for AFE, I do worry for the girls.
Having been there with such a mother and in a role of a scapegoat, I was driven suicidal in my teenage years (luckily my attempts failed).
I have close friends who went through similar hell in the hands of a narc mother, and both sisters, the golden child and the scapegoat have mental health issues, and a track record of several suicide attempts. They had it worse than we as their father was distant and physically violent man. Whereas we were blessed with and saved by a father who was kind, decent, nurturing, and gave us unconditional love.
I do not dare to say that AFE has done her worst already. I truly hope that before it happens the girls can be rescued by Ioan's love for them.
I am so sorry for the loss of your sister and I hope and pray for the best for your nieces and nephews. Having an aunt like you in their lives will be a wonderful help and comfort. I'm glad for you that you had your loving dad.
That's a good point. If Ella wanted to rant and rave all over SM about her dad and his bogan mistress, Alice would positively encourage it. The fact that Ella seemingly only joins in on Alice's idea's does make it look like she only does so because Alice makes her. Personally I think she's terrified of losing her mother's "love" and Alice knows that and deliberately uses it to threaten, coerce and force her into playing along. Not that she isn't angry with her dad, but really there is a whole lot more a vindictive teenage with 24 hr access to SM could be doing to hurt her father if she really wanted too.I still hold out hope for Ella, as she is not using SM to defame her Dad. I think back to Claudia Conway, who seemed like a very angry teen during the Trump era. She spilled all the dirt about her parents and was very vocal about it. She was 15 at the time, not far off Ella's age. She is definitely a very mixed up young lady.
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