• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My wife’s aunt is in the process of doing this at the moment. Seems to be systematically working her way through each branch of the family tree causing drama, slinging insults, trying to pit people against each other, and just generally being awful until people get fed up with her nonsense and disengage - at which point she’ll find some other branch to go all “woe is me/people are so mean/everyone is against me”, then rinse and repeat.

    Depression, alcoholism and narcissism are pretty powerful, and anyone trying to help gets themselves a first class ticket on the drama llama express

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      I’m probably related to your wife’s beloved aunt, too. So much power. So much destruction. And

      hurt people hurt people

      (people who are hurt can easily become people who hurt others)