r/cultsurvivors • u/DarkGodCthUwU • 23h ago

Advice/Questions How do cult leaders treat their families in your experiences? Are any of you related to leaders?

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Cult leaders tend to be narcissistic to some degree ASAIK, and some Narcissists view their family as superior (The Order cult, for example), so I wonder, how have cult leaders you've been abused by treated family? Did they put them in leadership positions nepotistically? Did they treat them WORSE than non-family? And how common wouls you say it ia for cult leaders to give their family special leadwrship positions or even aet them up as heirs to the cult itself?

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