You have hit the nail on the head in this article. As a child I went to school with a boy who was the golden child of his parents. They wanted children, but the wife could not get pregnant until she enter menopause. Thus when the husband and wife were in their 50's she got pregnant. She gave birth to a healthy boy, a big deal back then! He ran the home from birth. As an adult he married several times. His first wife was a friend of mine. She described their marriage. Definitely an abusive situation; he was definitely a narcissist. However, his parents were actually kind, lovely people. They were neighbors. Their son had it in him to be kind as well, but it never grew within him. He didn't know how.
You have hit the nail on the head in this article. As a child I went to school with a boy who was the golden child of his parents. They wanted children, but the wife could not get pregnant until she enter menopause. Thus when the husband and wife were in their 50's she got pregnant. She gave birth to a healthy boy, a big deal back then! He ran the home from birth. As an adult he married several times. His first wife was a friend of mine. She described their marriage. Definitely an abusive situation; he was definitely a narcissist. However, his parents were actually kind, lovely people. They were neighbors. Their son had it in him to be kind as well, but it never grew within him. He didn't know how.