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  • Life In A Narcissist Family -Part 1 The Fight To Survive  by Renu-55
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    A young bride enters a family that appears complete from the outside, but beneath the surface lies a world shaped by control, silence, manipulation, and unspoken expectations. "Life In A Narcissist Family" Part 1: Fight For Survival is Tina's deeply layered journey through marriage, emotional neglect, the loss of her own voice, and the quiet battles fought behind closed doors. Through Tina's story, every moment unfolds not as an isolated incident, but as part of a larger pattern-subtle, persistent, and most of the invisible to those outside the family. This is not just a story of suffering, but of awareness, resilience, and the slow reclaiming of self.
  • Life In A Narcissist Family Part- 2 Growing Wings  by Renu-55
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    In Part 1, Tina fights to secure her daughter's right to grow up with both her parents. Though her dream of building a corporate career remains unfulfilled, she earns the right to work and eventually creates a meaningful identity as a teacher in one of the city's reputed schools. Through teaching, Tina develops a deeper understanding of children, their emotions, and the unseen struggles that shape them. Along the way, she discovers a purpose that gives a new direction and meaning to her own life. Determined to give her daughters the strength, confidence, and independence she herself had once fought for, Tina fills their home with curiosity, learning, and possibilities. She pours her love and energy into their upbringing, ensuring that they grow up with the opportunities and emotional security she had longed for. Her efforts bear fruit as her daughters blossom into confident, accomplished young women. Having found success in her first innings, Tina steps into the second chapter of her life. She begins to rediscover the woman she had lost while fulfilling her responsibilities. She makes her mental and physical well-being a priority and starts rebuilding herself from within. She returns to the gym, reconnects with music - her first love - begins writing stories and poetry, and travels abroad to spend precious time with her daughters. As she fills the emptiness within with love, family, creativity, and meaningful pursuits, Tina slowly understands that happiness does not depend on having a perfect partner or a perfect life. She learns that seeking emotional nourishment from a dry well only leads to repeated disappointment. Through acceptance, self-discovery, and resilience, Tina discovers that even an imperfect life can be lived with grace, purpose, and joy. This is a story of motherhood, transformation, healing, and the quiet strength of a woman who, after years of carrying others, finally learns to spread her own wings.
  • 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡: 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 by kyrawrtz
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    𝐀 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓱× 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓪 (≧◡≦)(❥‿❥) Book Name Own by me do not copy🙏
  • Unlearning home : breaking the patterns i once called love by SwarnaSaravanan
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    Some homes are loud. Some homes are full. Some homes are both-and still leave you feeling invisible. If you've ever felt unseen in your own family, this story will stay with you. Unlearning Home is not a story about broken walls, but about the quiet cracks no one talks about. Growing up in a house filled with people, expectations, and unspoken rules, she learns early how to stay silent, how to wait, how to take up less space. But what happens when you begin to question everything you were taught to accept? Unlearning Home is a raw, introspective memoir about growing up in a family where love existed-but so did control, silence, and invisible hierarchies. This is a story about family, power, and love- and the slow, painful process of unlearning what once felt like home. This isn't about running away from home. It's about realizing what "home" really was.
  • Raised by Shadows by SadTrickster
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    A vampire named Szandor Aranyos only wished for solitude. Instead, he finds himself with a crying human child. Alongside him: an elderly druid with psychedelic herbs, a lynx with its own motives, and a child determined to explore every abyss of parental attachment issues. This is a story about reluctant care, dysfunctional family dynamics, existential weariness, and the sting of emotional neglect.
  • You Seemed Fine to Me by Stella18101995
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    Eli Arden's emotional priority score is too low to matter. In a city where an AI decides who deserves help, he's been labeled stable-too quiet to save, too functional to worry about. When Noah Vale is assigned as his temporary companion, Eli learns what warmth feels like. But the system interprets improvement as no longer needing support. And by the time Eli realizes he's drowning, his requests for help are already being ignored. Because he seemed fine. Because the system worked exactly as intended. A story about being dismissed so quietly you forget you ever mattered. 🩸 Angst | 💔 Hurt No Comfort | 🤖 Dystopian ⚠️ CW: Emotional neglect, passive SI, systemic abandonment
  • Attachment Isn't Love by author_lunaa
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    "𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡. 𝙇𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢." 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨- 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘐 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘥.
  • "Before She Becomes Memory" [Completed] by veyl_arcyn
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    "Her love was never your birthright. It was her choice. Honor it-before she becomes memory." A collection of raw truths, quiet heartbreaks, and the silent strength of women the world forgets to see. "Before She Becomes Memory" is a reminder to cherish her now, not after regret arrives. __Bushra.💌 ⚠️DO NOT REPOST!
  • Loving You Scares Me  by Chetana_Panda
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    Nina Dawson has spent years learning how to stay quiet, how to hide the parts of herself that hurt too much to explain. Love was never supposed to find her... not like this, not so suddenly, not so intensely. Ethan Carson wasn't supposed to fall either. Not after everything he's seen, not after promising himself he'd never become the man he grew up fearing. But one night, under city lights and unspoken truths, he does. And now, they stand at the edge of something neither of them knows how to hold... Him, afraid of losing her... and her, afraid of being seen at all. Because sometimes, the scariest thing isn't falling in love- it's believing you deserve it.
  • I keep myself by DhipikaSeopursat
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    I Keep Myself is a journey back to the self. Told through poetic reflection and grounded truth, this book explores how women learn endurance instead of safety, accommodation instead of intimacy, and availability instead of love. It examines the cost of staying too long, the language we use to excuse harm, and the courage it takes to choose oneself when leaving feels cruel. This book does not offer easy answers. It offers clarity. I Keep Myself is for those unlearning self-abandonment, reclaiming their boundaries, and discovering that love does not require suffering to be real. It is a reminder that keeping yourself is not selfish - it is survival, and it is sacred.
  • Still Married Already Alone by CikaWrites
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    She stayed. Not because it was easy, but because leaving once felt harder than surviving every day. She was still his wife, still sharing the same house, still praying for the same man- yet slowly becoming invisible. Still Married, Already Alone is a quiet story about loyalty, emotional neglect, and the moment a woman chooses herself without hatred, without drama, without losing her softness. This is not a story about divorce. It's a story about a woman who stopped disappearing just to keep love alive.
  • I Never Thought That I'd Love the Color Yellow So Much (But Then I Met You) by VegetarianCarnivore
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    Shinsou isn't into the same things as the other boys. He isn't into sports, he doesn't like the type of music they listen to, and he doesn't like girls. There's a new idol that all the boys are obsessing over, so naturally, Shinsou doesn't participate in everyone thirsting over, so naturally he doesn't do the same. That is, until he finds out she is actually a he. Secretly a boy! female idol Denki Kaminari x emo, sleep deprived Hitoshi Shinsou. (Cross posted on ao3)
  • acknowledging me by grapeejellyfishe
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    「 to acknowledge means to accept. 」 ─── Han Aesong, now known as Samira Ruen shin, was an ordinary senior student barely surviving the life she had. Though the life she experienced was hard, it was full of memories with the people she loves. it wasn't long until she was murdered, ending her life as Han Aesong. Now awakened as 14 y/o Samira, the twin sister of Elizabeth Ruen Shin- the protagonist of a webnovel she once read,〔 Elizabeth's Sanctuary 〕who tragically died at the hands of their stepmother, she tried to accept her new life but she couldn't do so. "I don't want this life anymore.." Sobbed the young woman, wiping the tears that she tried to suppress.
  • The Dragon And His Pathfinder (MxM) by AmandaPanda293
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    Growing up, Cassius Merlot has always been shunned out as the outcast of his tribe. Being born with feathered wings has never been seen as a good omen in the eyes of the Red Dragon Colony. So much so, even his parents don't do much to hide their distaste from him as well. When he meets Isaiah Phoenix, the tormented son of the enemy tribe's Cheif, it was the breath of fresh air he desperately needed. As if bonding with the blue dragon shifter was the answer to his prayers all along. With Isaiah's father brutally mistreating him and Cassius' parents fonding over his older sister more so than him, their loveless lives drew them closer. Despite violating their colony's one strict rule of engaging with one another. When the Red colony is suddenly attacked by the Blue colony, it was as if Cassius is partaking in a nightmare he can not wake up from. Barely escaping with their lives, Isaiah and Cassius then find themselves lost deep within the woods after falling into and being drifted off by a flowing river. The boys must now co-depend on each other for survival and work together to find their way home. If there's even still a home to return to that is. Then a strange voice pays Cassius its company in his dreams. Telling him that the potential dangers of the unknown aren't the true threat he should be weary of, but of the very shifter traveling alongside him. Soon, dark secrets about the person he thought he knew begin to slowly unravel. Eventually leaving Cassius to question whether Isaiah has always been the warm-hearted man he thought he could trust or something greatly sinister hiding behind a charming face all along? .............................. (Tags will update as story progresses) Trigger warnings: Suicidal ideation, depictions of sexual assault, animal death, child death, disturbing/unsettling imagery
  • Comfort Looks Like Love by A_Gracee
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    Weeks before her wedding, Paris Sinclair begins receiving anonymous notes left on her windshield after work-each one exposing painful truths about her relationship. As the messages force her to question the difference between comfort and real emotional love, Paris must decide if marrying her high school sweetheart is truly what she wants... or simply what feels familiar.
  • Escape  by aartificious_
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    Everyone is this room wanted an escape, but they couldn't. Who doesn't want freedom? And who has the right to stop you from being free? Yet there are unsaid boundaries, emotions on surface and too much in mind that you can't leave. There's restrain, and no escape Yet they dream of running away. Too a reality that doesn't even exist And maybe, it can never exist. [ A dysfunctional family drama ]
  • She Who Was Meant to Bring Joy by wittygirl31
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    Beatrice is a five-chapter reflective monologue tracing the quiet devastation of a childhood shaped by control, silence, and emotional neglect. Born into hope and named for happiness, Beatrice grows up navigating parental conflict, rigid expectations, and the slow erosion of selfhood. What begins as a story of family migration and sacrifice becomes an intimate study of endurance, of a girl who learns to disappear in order to survive. As the narrative moves through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, it resists the language of redemption. There is no singular villain, no dramatic escape, and no neat reconciliation. Instead, the story dwells in the aftermath: dependency that lingers, anger that coexists with gratitude, and a present shaped by wounds that have not yet healed. Beatrice is not a story about overcoming trauma, but about living honestly within it.
  • Cry for Me, Pavel by nprescott
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    17yo Elizaveta Mirova is a ballerina of extraordinary talent, moving through the 90's Moscow like a ghost: silent, precise, untouchable. Her body brutally trained, her mind drifting further and further. Who made her this way, who will save her? Cry for Me, Pavel is a haunting, lyrical exploration of artistry and obsession, of endurance and unspoken longing. Inspired loosely by Whiplash, Billy Elliot and Black Swan
  • Tyla by samyazurzolo
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    Book 14: Since she was small, the girl learned to "read the room" before she could even read books. She became an expert at monitoring her mother's moods to avoid being the target of her mother's frustration. While other kids were being cared for, she was the one making her own cereal and tucking herself into bed, effectively becoming the "parent" in the house while she was still a child.This book talks about a girl with Mommy Issues.
  • Dear diary... by juvinem
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    Have you ever dated a guy who cheated on you? Have you ever felt emotionally neglected by your parents? Rebecca is a typical 17-year old girl, with trust issues, who can only rely on her diary.