Like many of you, I don’t enjoy graduation ceremonies and only go because it’s the right thing to do to honor the person. But I do enjoy some of the other festivities surrounding graduations. We had a blast at some of those for both of my kids’ graduations.
Also, I clicked on your post because the words “secret narcissism” cracked me up. Those of us dealing with family members with actual narcissistic personality disorder know there’s no secret about it!