Being My own Shark

Rather than my mother’s pilot fish. I have always challenged Eirwen, my narcissist ne plus ultra mother. And, as we often must when dealing with a narcissist, I have fought to be my own shark rather than that pilot fish mooching along at the shark’s gills. NB — we have Royal Marines Commando, Stacks, to thank for that analogy. Eirwen was an unreasonable, raging, physically violent mother. I read…