You would think that W would realize that the girls are avoiding her, but apparently she doesn’t. She does notice that they’re never home, or that when they are home, they stay in the other end of the house, but she never makes the connection that they’re avoiding her. She complains about them never being home. She complains about them being so lazy and spending all of their time “piled up in bed.” But she never seems to make the connection about avoiding her. The girls tell me that they just try to stay away from her. They tell me that she cares more about the dogs than she does about them. But they don’t tell her and she doesn’t seem able to see it for herself.
As far as working goes, I’m assuming that she doesn’t work because she doesn’t want to. We’re far from rich, but she’s never had to work. She’s done a lot of volunteer stuff though. Right now she’s spending two days a week working at a low cost spay/neuter and vaccination clinic. She stays busy.
From all that I’ve seen and read, there’s no treatment for NPD. Intense and prolonged inpatient treatment is the only thing that any kind of success and even that is very limited. It’s just something I’m going to have to work with.
