This book talks about the writer's relationship with her covert narcissist child's father. She talks about how difficult and draining it is to be in a relationship with a narcissist, someone that lacks empathy. Someone that never lets you express how you feel and if you do they give you the silent treatment or get mad at you and start screaming and calling you names. She talks about how hypocritical narcissist are, and how they do things they would not be okay with their partners doing. She talks about the constant criticism, manipulation, verbal, mental and emotional abuse you will go through when you are in a relationship with a narcissist. She also talks about why she stayed so long and how she emotionally detached herself from the toxic relationship and gained her sanity back.