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Before you can make things better, you have to stop making them worse... Have you considered that being critical, judgmental, or invalidating toward the other parent, no matter what she or he just did will only make matters worse? Someone has to be do something. This means finding the motivation to stop making things worse, learning how to interrupt your own negative responses, body language, facial expressions, voice tone, and learning how to inhibit your urges to do things that you later realize are contributing to the tensions.
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« on: July 15, 2016, 08:39:36 AM »

Hi! I'm new to this community. My husbands ex is the BPD, but she is poisoning my step kids to the point where they destroy property almost every time they come over. Anyone else dealing with this?
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2016, 10:33:16 AM »

How old are the kids ?
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2016, 11:25:16 AM »

The problem with dealing directly with DH's ex is that she almost surely doesn't see DH (your Dear Husband) as having any authority despite being the other parent.  So any changes he wants to make to get improvement will surely be resisted.

Has he tried to get them into counseling?  Obviously, she will object but if he gets court to agree, then the court, as the Real Authority, can order counseling. If he gets that the the next problem is to make sure the kids see an experienced counselor and not one who can be gullible and influenced by an emotionally convincing/overwhelming parent with BPD.

Until then, it's possible the school's counselor may have a little bit of an effect.

Seeing this is your first post, please browse around, there are skills, ideas and strategies described here that would be very help for both of you.
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