Tony covers parenting, co-parenting, and parallel parenting with a narcissist. Tony refers to the article "Co-parenting with a narcissist: tips and strategies," from https://www.custodyxchange.com/topics/custody/special-circumstances/co-parenting-with-narcissist.php Plus, he shares a listener email that discusses the importance of working on yourself outside of the relationship with the narcissist in your life via a story about "The Boss" himself, Bruce Springstein. And finally, Tony shares experiences of what NOT parenting with the best interest of your kids in mind looks like, thanks to feedback from his private Facebook group for women in narcissistic relationships.

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[00:00:07] Hey, everybody, welcome to episode twenty six of Waking Up the Narcissism, I am your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and host of the Virtual Couch podcast. And as always, I am excited to be here, and I'm excited to talk today about the concept of parenting. Specifically, we're going to talk about co-parenting with a narcissist. I'm going to introduce you, maybe to a new term, which is the concept of parallel parenting with a narcissist. And we're going to talk about the differences between co-parenting, parallel parenting. And I'm going to read some examples of what not being on the same page from a parenting standpoint looks like from my private Facebook group. For women who are in relationships with the narcissist in their lives, whether it's a spouse, a former spouse, a parent, a sibling, a neighbor, you name it an employer. But if you are experiencing that narcissism in your life, the narcissism, the narcissistic tendencies, the emotional immaturity, then you need tools. So if you're listening to this podcast, then maybe you're waking up to your own narcissism or narcissistic traits or emotional immaturity, or waking up to the emotional immaturity or narcissism in your relationship. Either way, I'm glad you're here, and before I do that, I've got two things two things that I'm really excited about. I have someone who wrote me a pretty incredible email and it is very creative, and it just makes such a fantastic point about how difficult it can be.

[00:01:26] Even when you are waking up to narcissism and you're waking up to the narcissism, let's say that it's happening in a spouse, and a lot of times the feedback will be, Hey, you're typically talking about the male is the narcissist. And a couple of episodes I've given that data of why that's more of the norm. But I have a guy that wrote me and talked about his challenges in his narcissistic relationship with his wife. She is the one displaying the narcissistic traits, tendencies, the emotional immaturity. So this email comes to us somewhere in Scandinavia. It's entitled Game Day, he says.