3. Isolating You.
Another way that narcissists utilize coercive control is by isolating you from your family and friends. They do not want you to have a support system, and so they usually will start isolating you from your loved ones pretty early on. Alienating parents isolate the child or the children from the other parent while they abuse and terrorize the child into submission.
This may come in the form of physically moving somewhere far away, it may come in the form of bad-mouthing, your family and your friends, and making you lose faith in them. Or, it may come in the form of rage and anger anytime they come around you, making you want to avoid them because you know when they are around what’s in store for you when they leave. But isolating you from friends and family is another excellent example, of course, of control.
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And as I mentioned, this is also one of the tactics parental alienators use to brainwash a child against a targeted parent. They isolate the child, block any communication from the targeted parent, and start actively forcing these lies and this re-written history onto the child until the child has no alternative than to accept the lies as truth.
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