The child of the narcissistic parent has been psychologically abandoned. He/she lives not in a home but a "house of desolation. 

I hear from children of narcissistic parents. They have been through painful and complex ordeals. They speak of the cold cruelties of the narcissistic mother and/or father. They were exploited and abused, treated like objects, servants to their narcissistic masters.

It is remarkable how these children who grew up in the houses of desolation coped and dealt with the cruel and ugly psychopathology of the narcissistic parent. 

Prominent British writer Rudyard Kipling was abandoned at the age of six along with his three year old sister Trix by their parents. Mother and father without the slightest announcement after leaving India on a trip to London eft their young children with strangers whom they contacted through a newspaper article. The caretaker was a cruel cold abusive woman and her disturbed son. For six long years they were left at the mercy of these pathological individuals. The parents returned unexpectedly with no explanation. Kipling suffered deeply from this abandonment and betrayal. He used his incredible creativity through writing to survive this horrendous extended traumatic experience of parental abandonment, particularly by his mother.

Are you the child of a narcissistic parent who grew up in a house of desolation. 

I give you tremendous credit for your authenticity, integrity, stamina, grit and creativity. 

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