Tricked: Surviving Life With a Narcissistic Mate

by Lana Jenkins

Overview

 

DON'T LET THEM HURT YOU JUST BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM

This book is about the different 'normals' in life. Normal for some people includes dysfunctional behavior that they are good at disguising. Normal for author Lana Jenkins was being kind, helping others, being a nice person. Lana was rather “low maintenance”—she adapted easily to others' ideas and didn't need to have her own way. That, she discovered, made her the perfect target for manipulating and controlling people—narcissists—who always have to be seen and heard, always have to be right, and who always have to have their own way.

The life Lana lived with a narcissist was devastating. It hurt her children and cost them so much.But they survived and did not remain victims. Instead, they renewed their thinking and worked to achieve the success in life that God wants for all of us. Lana shares her experiences in this book so you can learn from them. If you've been there, you know what she means. If you recognize some of these red flags, pay attention to them—they will save you from a lifetime of pain.

This is what she learned, and you can learn too:

- How to stop being manipulated and controlled—get your decision-making power back.

- How to not let your hurt feelings make you a victim—keep on going when it would be easier to quit.

- How to use the pain of your past to help design your future—don't waste what you learned, instead use it to make wiser decisions and better choices moving forward.

Know you have priceless value and God wants only good things for you. Don't be tricked into anything less than God's best.

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, AND START CHANGING THINGS TODAY!
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946114976
Publisher:	Lana S Jenkins
Publication date:	02/28/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Lana Jenkins is an author and speaker who helps people reinterpret their past, move beyond the pain of manipulation and control in relationships, and experience a new future of peace and happiness. Lana is now married to Rod and they enjoy the wonderful life God promised them. Together they have five children and five grandchildren, and life is good. They live in Saskatchewan, Canada You too can have the peaceful life God has in store for you too.

Table of Contents

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

PART I: JUST ANOTHER NORMAL FAMILY

1. How It All Began. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Our Normal Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3. I Don’t Want This - It is Abnormal. . . . . . . . . 11

4. Know Your Enemy - Don’t Be Fooled. . . . . . . . 18

PART II: THINGS I LEARNED

5. Pursuing God’s Normal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6. This Was Not Good, Not Normal. . . . . . . . . . . 29

7. Losing the Battle - Wrong Normal. . . . . . . . . 34

8. I Do, But What Do I Do?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU ARE NOT!. . . . 48

PART III: WHAT I LEARNED THE HARD WAY

9. The Real Enemy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

10. Another Move. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

11. Heading Home—On the Right Track. . . . . . . . 66

12. Home at Last and Starting Over One More Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 PART IV: IS THIS FINALLY THE END?

13. We Start Over Again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

14. Yes We Really Can Build a Better Home. . . . 84

15. So How Do We Get Our Normals?. . . . . . . . . 89

16. We Must Teach the Next Generation What Success Is . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

APPENDICES PARTING WORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

THINGS TO CONTEMPLATE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

RED FLAGS—the uneasy feeling you get when.... . . 114