My mother’s friends would say the same but my mother is a narcissist and the older she gets the more the mask slips. Privately, she was verbally and physically abusive towards me. She is beginning to alienate her friends now.
She has almost completely discarded me now in favor of my eldest daughter who is kindhearted and doesn’t challenge her. I say almost because she is very ill and needs my help right now. Previously, she would go years without speaking to me.