Pastors/pastor’s wives personalities/disorders
I’ve been looking at threads about growing up religious from the perspective of pastors’ kids and have come across a common theme. Many spent their childhoods moving from church to church, whether, from inner-church controversy or the pastors “religious calling” to relocate. I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how their father, the pastor, had narcissistic tendencies. I’ve also seen many say things about the pastor’s wife suffering from severe depression, BPD, or something similar. This resonates with me, as I was a pastor’s kid all of my childhood and saw these characteristics in both of my parents. I also spent most of my childhood moving from state to state across the Bible Belt because of religious and personal differences with my dad and the church we were currently at. I’m wondering if this really is as common of a theme as it would seem from the threads I’ve looked at so far. And if so, why? Is it these type of people who are attracted to each other, and then this lifestyle? Or does the psychological toll of this situation create these kinds of issues?