When Love Feels Familiar in All the Wrong Ways: 10 Signs You’re Repeating Childhood Pain in Your Relationship

And How to Break the Cycle with Boundaries That Heal

Growing up with a narcissistic father doesn’t just shape your childhood, it imprints patterns on your nervous system that often echo into adulthood, especially in how you give and receive love. You didn’t just survive that upbringing, you adapted. You learned to read the room before you entered it. You minimized your needs. You made yourself small in or…