The daughters of narcissistic mothers grow up under a threatening female shadow. The main characteristics of this kind of upbringing are control and a lack of empathy. The mother is trying to create an exact copy of herself in her daughter. But that also means that she’s projecting her own ego and all her insecurities onto her. This upbringing is characterized by self-denial, dependence, and suffering.
Will I ever be good enough for my mother? This is one of the most common questions in the minds of daughters with narcissistic mothers.
But what a lot of them end up assuming is that their mothers had absolutely no maternal instincts. Experts at erasing identities and squashing any attempts at independence, narcissistic mothers are one of the most complex, harmful types of people out there.
A movie about this: Mommie Dearest
https://exploringyourmind.com/daughters-narcissistic-mothers/
https://www.daughtersofnarcissisticmothers.com/