She is such a narcissist and not a very loving person. I’m 22 and she treats me like a child, I’ve grown up to be such an insecure perfectionist because of her.

She acts like I can’t do anything for myself. I had a job interview for something that I really want and she tried “coaching me” on what to say and to memorize it so I nail the interview in the way SHE wants me to. If I get the job, it’ll be because of HER and tell me all about how I should be grateful that she helps me. But if I don’t get it, it’s because I didn’t do what SHE told me to say and did what I wanted to do.

Any time I have an achievement, it can never be because I did something right.  It makes me so anxious to think about her approval and her reactions because if I don’t get this job I already know the lecture that’s going to come with it.