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Title: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hiloguy on May 05, 2013, 02:02:58 PM
Just wondering if any of you had your ex say something (one liner) that just blew your mind.

These are two examples from my ex:

1. "You don't know what its like to be in love with two guys at the same time"

2. "It hurts me to hurt you"


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Want2know on May 06, 2013, 08:44:29 AM
Yes, there were a number of things my ex said that blew my mind.  After a while, I almost expected them.

1. "You don't know what its like to be in love with two guys at the same time"

2. "It hurts me to hurt you"

Just curious... .  how did you respond to these statements?  :)id they anger you at the time, and do they still bother you when you think of comments like these that she said?



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: VeryFree on May 06, 2013, 09:00:32 AM
The worst, before going off to take a swim:

"I hope you drown".

In my ten years with this woman I had some terrible moments. I've been both verbally and physcially abused, but this one has hurt me the most. Even more than her false accusations of DV, although those stand firmly on a second place.

My reaction to the deathwish: I didn't react. I went away, did go for a swim, did not have a good time and later on I told her I was very upset by her words.

Her reaction: "you have said things to me too"... .     


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: GaGrl on May 06, 2013, 09:02:03 AM
This was rather a strung-out sentence, but on the topic of her constant infidelities, my DH heard from his then-wife (the uNPD/BPD we call The Dark Princess)... .  

"I know it's wrong, and I know it hurts you, but it's what I want to do, so I'm going to do it."



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: VeryFree on May 06, 2013, 09:11:30 AM
On number three:

"Why don't you move out and go live with one of your friends? Oh no, you don't have any friends anymore. (laughter)"

And why was that? Yes: because we couldn't have anyone over to our house and I couldn't go away without her making a big fuss.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Bananas on May 06, 2013, 09:30:20 AM
here's mine, it's actually a two liner:

"everything is always on my terms.  thats what works for me and if people dont want to be on my terms i dont have a problem with distancing them."

red-flag


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: lhd981 on May 06, 2013, 11:28:12 AM
"Just like your friends said, I'm going to eat your brains... . like soup" (A brief acknowledgement to how crazy she was making my feel)

"It's not like we're in a real relationship. We're more like friends." (Very nonchalantly and almost sweet sounding; this after being lovey-dovey to each other all the time, holding hands, kissing, saying "I love you" and engaging in lots of passionate, romantic lovemaking)

"If you get a new cat, I'll strangle it while you sleep." (When I wouldn't adopt her old cat)

"Oh, that's just my ex texting me. I haven't slept with him in a while but we made out a couple of times since them. I'm going to tell him that I'm seeing somebody now because I don't want to lead him on." (maybe not so sinister sounding, but it really hit a nerve with me for some reason)


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: hellokitty4 on May 06, 2013, 11:56:19 AM
Here are just a couple:

When I asked her if she wanted me to go away, her response was:

"No, no, no I don't want you to go away because I'm going to miss you. I would rather be mad at you and know that you will be there."

"You were ignoring me so I'm going to do the same."

"I want to see you but I don't want to see you."

"I don't want you to go." Said in tears [sobbing actually] before I left on a cruise with my family and also said when I was to attend a district meeting with other instructors. She would have been one of them if she didn't resign.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: GreenMango on May 06, 2013, 12:07:07 PM
About a year ago when I came to this site I was part if a thread like this.  I wrote a few choice comments.

At the heart of it was a person will tell you-and I didn't listen.

they will tell you

... .  earlier than when they told you they met a new "friend" that they are leaving or were never really available to us.  I believe if we had really "listened" they told us from the beginning in the things they do and say.  These little messages that told me who he was, thought, believed, or did should have told me who he was from the beginning.  Whether it was the contradictory communication or my choosing to ignore the caution signs didn't change the fact that he had always told me... .  

Looking back he told me in alot of ways... .  as I reflect and laugh a little, some of them were... .  

when he told me he wanted to be a pirate and have a baby in the same sentence... .  lol  really is that even possible?  33 years old my friends.

when he told me he thought he would be a really bad boyfriend when we were just friends.

when he told me I act like his mom... .  his mother is an abadoning alcoholic, alas I am not.  But I have a sneaking suspicion that staying with him might have made me one  :).

when he told me I get more attention than he does... .  I didn't realize there was a competition going on and thought dinner was fun.  

Anyways, I look back now and think they have always told us... .  but maybe I need to listen when someone tells me exactly who they are and leave if I don't like it.  

-GM

Staying through crazy comments, minimizing them and rationalizing it was me.  All me... .  it took a long time to not be angry with myself for not listening to my gut.

And ask myself why I stayed?


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: mrclear on May 06, 2013, 12:22:09 PM
This is good thread to see the amount of abuse we tolerated... .  

Here's a couple of mine:

After my first opening-night as a director (I am in the theater-business): "You're the big man now. Everybody loves you. You're selfish and work in a disgusting, superficial business! You don't need me anymore. I'm leaving you.' (She was a performer herself, but didn't make it... .  )

'You're a pathetic, selfish, old alcoholic.' (I am 48 and she was drunk at the time!)

'When you're away I want you, but when you're here, I don't.' (That's a classic... .  )

We have to remember that we allowed this to happen to us... .  

mrclear


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Changed4safety on May 06, 2013, 12:25:04 PM
Oh gawd... .  too many... .  here are some favorites:

1. "You are my significant other, therefore, you are the enemy."

2. (We had an open relationship and he got engaged, even though he moved from living with HER to be with ME, and said I was the great love of his life.  I asked him repeatedly if he was swapping her out for me, she lived 1,000 miles away and I was spending $2K a month on all his needs.  He said "There is no heirarchy in my heart" and that it was largely for legal/insurance reasons.  When they broke up and were considering getting back together, I was stricken.  He saw how hurt I was:)  ":)on't you dare look at me like that.   You knew what this was, what we are.  We're dear friends who love each other."  

3. "I cut myself--the first time I've done that since I broke up with the ex.  That's how upset I am about how you're making me feel."  (This after I broke down when I learned he had been cheating on me and lying to me.)

4.  (He choked me on three separate occasions.)  "Remembering that is giving me flashbacks and PTSD."  

There's more, but you get the idea.  

 


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Bananas on May 06, 2013, 12:27:47 PM
About a year ago when I came to this site I was part if a thread like this.  I wrote a few choice comments.

At the heart of it was a person will tell you-and I didn't listen.

Staying through crazy comments, minimizing them and rationalizing it was me.  All me... .  it took a long time to not be angry with myself for not listening to my gut.

And ask myself why I stayed?

EXACTLY!  I did a little exercise for myself.  I wrote down all the red flags, and there was a lot!  Seeing them on paper and reading them back was an eye openeing experience for me.  Why did I stay so long?  Why did I go back? What the heck was I thinking? 


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Billa on May 06, 2013, 12:29:24 PM
a lot... .  among them:

"you've made another mistake", said while I was giving him the Christmas gifts I had bought to him (on the 20th January, because, after the death of his mother, some days before Christmas, he didn't let me to go and stay with him for a month -as we were living in different towns, two hours by car).


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: clairedair on May 06, 2013, 12:33:02 PM
At the heart of it was a person will tell you-and I didn't listen.

... .  

Staying through crazy comments, minimizing them and rationalizing it was me.  All me... .  it took a long time to not be angry with myself for not listening to my gut.

And ask myself why I stayed?

I feel that since our last break-up at the end of last year, the floodgates have opened and I am reliving all sorts of words and actions that were abusive.  I am more angry with him than I have been (or rather, the anger has lingered whereas before I always started to feel bad about being angry and very quickly excused his behaviours).  However, I am also angry with myself for CHOOSING to live with hurt and chaos and ashamed of this.  I minimised the crazy things and horrible words - "he's ill" "can't help it" "I am stronger so it's up to me to stick with this" etc.  I enabled him and in doing so did not model healthy behaviours to our children.  

He told me "I don't think I'll ever settle" and I still stayed and he left a couple of months later (now he is getting married 6 months after first date so I'm guessing he's now sure he'll settle!)

We got back together after our divorce early last year (my bad).  When he started withdrawing again, I told him "I feel like you're not here with me".  His reply "I'm not here - we're divorced"  (we were together in bed at the time).

I've gone over and over the things that were said but this time I am also really questioning myself.  Now the things I said and did are blowing my mind!



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Dire Wolf on May 06, 2013, 12:48:28 PM
While we were together: "The reason I have to hit you and throw things at you is because you make me so mad! It is all your fault."

While we were negotiating money during divorce process: "Yes, that is correct... .  I do believe that my 401K should be left in my name and his 401K be split 50/50. My money should be mine and his money is ours to split."

Most recently via email, almost 7 years post split: "You should step up and be a man. I don't care what we agreed upon... .  you should be paying for all of college for the kids."

And the classic post divorce email that pops up now and again: "I know you don't care what I say, but you should, so I am telling you!"

We should write a book!



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Rocknut on May 06, 2013, 01:04:45 PM
My ex with BPD was a "wake n bake" marijuana addict. He consistently blamed me for it. One day I snapped and said, "you're a coward! Want to blame somebody for your drug use? LOOK IN THE MIRROR! Blame yourself!"

he then looked at me and said "when I look in the mirror I see you."... .  shazam


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: cska on May 06, 2013, 01:18:14 PM
My BPD gf told me:

"The only reason why I was ever with you was b/c of my issues. I don't know why you feel so important nowadays."

Yea, that stung me


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: haliewa1 on May 06, 2013, 01:24:03 PM
My exBPDgf said, "this isn't working, I can't do the two of us anymore.  Don't call or talk to me".  She then proceeded to kick me out of her place in the middle of the night.  I went to a local hotel and finally had to turn off my phone at 2:00am because she was calling me every five minutes.  I woke up at up at 800am, turned the phone on and found the voicemail full with her pleas to return.  I caught a flight out of town that afternoon!


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Mark2430 on May 06, 2013, 01:26:35 PM
"You make me treat you this way". "What I feel is real, I wish you felt the same way" , "lets just get through the night and go our own ways" my response: "ok" her response "so you are ready to give up on what we have" lol... .  "you made me say all those horrible things to you when you changed your plans and didnt come see me" of course I changed my plans because she dumped me three days earlier and then cussed me out and in the middle of being cussed out I told her I wasn't coming to see her lol... .  "now looking back I don't think I was ever in love with you, I think it was the challenge" still not sure what that means lol... .  


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: spaceace on May 06, 2013, 01:44:28 PM
Man, I have a few... . but the biggest mind blower was one night talking to her about  her 3 boys while we were separated.

She actually said, I wish I had another penis in their lives!

I had no way to respond to that... .  it took me 3 days before I told her, your children have me, but the only reason I am not there for them is because you won't allow me to be there... . Then I said, I don't know what that comment meant, but it does not sit well with me... . I never heard a woman, a mother, actually say about a male figure in her kids life as, wishing she had another penis in their lives... .

Totally mind blowing a woman would reference a man this way.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: egribkb on May 06, 2013, 01:55:11 PM
Paraphrasing, but it was basically this coming out of my stbxBPDw ... .  

"You aren't someone I'd choose to have another child with but we need to have another kid so our daughter won't be alone when she grows up."

This after a long discussion on how I felt we shouldn't be bringing another child into the massive rage filled dysfunction of our relationship and that any child needs an environment that is safe, stable, and where the parents actually love each other. She also completely ignored how she barely speaks to her own siblings as an adult, lol.



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: slimmiller on May 06, 2013, 01:57:51 PM
We should write a book!

I said that to mine once half kiddingly (shes in college yet again at 33 to be a counselor... .  lmao... .  seriously)  Her without skipping a beat said, "And we could share the profits" 

Say wha... .  



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hopeliveshere on May 06, 2013, 02:06:56 PM
BPDh asked "What's wrong with you ?


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: TheDude on May 06, 2013, 02:29:28 PM
Without any intention of being critical here, I do have to wonder - is there any particularly healthy benefit to subjects like this? What I mean is, ex-bashing seems to me more in the direction of ruminating as opposed to detaching. I do, however, understand it (and have done plenty of it myself), but I'm also to the point of indifference enough that rear-view minutia serves less and less purpose in moving forward.

I was half expecting to find a reply citing "I do" as the one-liner.  :)

Carry on.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hurt llama on May 06, 2013, 02:47:25 PM
"I went with him to prove to myself that I loved you"


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hurt llama on May 06, 2013, 02:50:55 PM
Upon learning of an ex lover's death in a small plane crash and that his body was eaten by sharks exclaimed, "He's shark bait".

No. Not making this up.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Want2know on May 06, 2013, 02:51:26 PM
Without any intention of being critical here, I do have to wonder - is there any particularly healthy benefit to subjects like this? What I mean is, ex-bashing seems to me more in the direction of ruminating as opposed to detaching.

I agree there is the potential for it to be more of a venting thread than a real productive one.  

There can be some benefit to those who need assurance that they made the right decision to detach from their pwBPD.  By writing out and reading what seem to be ridiculous comments, it may help a bit with the detachment process in some way.

Plus, we all know not to participate in ex-bashing, right?   A little venting is ok, as long as it's not demonstrating excessive anger or other potential guideline issues.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: chuckstrong on May 06, 2013, 02:51:53 PM
My favorite I heard more than once:

"You are so so close to perfect but not perfect enough for me."

My friends all said run for the hills when hey heard that one!... .  that was almost a year ago. Ugh.

Chuck

PS another favorite: " You treated me like a princess no one will ever treat me as good as you did"



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: AllyCat7 on May 06, 2013, 02:58:16 PM
This is a fun topic lol. Some BPDs, especially the waifs, communicate so infrequently that the reactive one-liners are all we have to figure them out.

One in particular that told me a lot about him was when he saw this other guy around town that I'm just friends with and who he was threatened by. On the phone, he said he bumped into him the previous night and then said "He isn't even that good-looking!" That told me all I needed to know about how he viewed himself. He was super hot, but always acted so humble about it that I figured he didn't know how hot he was. But when he said that, I realized he knew just how hot he was and not only thought it would let him get away with all sorts of nonsense with girls, but he actually did get away with lots of nonsense and he knew very well how powerful his looks were as a tool. He didn't seem so innocent to me after that. I retorted to that statement that looks aren't all that matters. Meanwhile, I think the guy in question is adorable with a great personality to match. We're still just friends but he's someone I would consider later on once I'm ready for a r'ship again.

Oh my exBPD also used to say this one thing every time he would pseudo break up with me and claim we were just friends (he usually said it when he was afraid I would leave him). He'd go ":)on't get me wrong. I'm attracted to you. But we're just friends." It wasn't the second part that bothered me b/c I eventually realized he pulled the friends line when he was afraid of abandonment. So I honestly stopped taking it seriously lol. But the first part always got me. I think I'm pretty attractive and don't need ego stroking like that. But when he would say that, it got me wondering "Is he trying to convince me or himself?" I'd consider myself around an 8 out of 10 (not to sound superficial), but I guess he's trying to marry a 9 or 10... .  because I honestly think he was saying that to convince himself lol (and some of the girls he was talking to on the side were 10s). Whatever. I'm so over his looks at this point. It was never what attracted me to him in the first place, but, ironically, it added to his crazy-making ways that have turned me off majorly. I didn't realize how superficial he was until I thought further about these one-liners.

Anyway, good question :)


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: asher2 on May 06, 2013, 03:01:36 PM
2 odd lines for me... .  

When she was talking non-stop about a guy in her past she was friends with, I finally asked if she ever had sex with him. Her response, "Yeah we had sex. We were such good friends we had to." Huh?

Another odd line was after she told me that she had an affair in her past with a married man. I was blown away by this and quite upset. I asked her how she could do something like that and her response was something along the lines of "I'm not sure why I should feel bad, he was the one who was married." Yeah, that's a red flag... .  


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hurt llama on May 06, 2013, 03:03:26 PM
Without any intention of being critical here, I do have to wonder - is there any particularly healthy benefit to subjects like this? What I mean is, ex-bashing seems to me more in the direction of ruminating as opposed to detaching. I do, however, understand it (and have done plenty of it myself), but I'm also to the point of indifference enough that rear-view minutia serves less and less purpose in moving forward.

At first I thought the same thing but it is very helpful to almost reaffirm the literally insanity that we have been exposed to. My ex delivered the two 'one liners' that I posted above in silky smooth calm cool tones. Almost zero emotion and so completely detached.

I needed to not only remind myself of the mental illness I was exposed to but in hearing other oddly similar stories.

This thread isn't for me about 'bashing'. It's about understanding it wasn't just me and what it sounds like to read other members reactions.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Numbers on May 06, 2013, 03:15:47 PM
There are many I could write for purpose of ex-bashing, but these I am trying to detach from.

Instead:

In full distress, choking in tears: "I cannot be without you. I do not know why it is so and it's killing me."

That one tore my heart out.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: delgato on May 06, 2013, 03:16:35 PM
Without any intention of being critical here, I do have to wonder - is there any particularly healthy benefit to subjects like this? What I mean is, ex-bashing seems to me more in the direction of ruminating as opposed to detaching. I do, however, understand it (and have done plenty of it myself), but I'm also to the point of indifference enough that rear-view minutia serves less and less purpose in moving forward.

Agreed, mostly.

Though perhaps it's also a way of recognizing some red flags, should we happen to run into something similar in future dating endeavors?


The thread's 2nd post by Want2know, asking the question does it still bother you, is a good one.

Personally, there a still a few things said by exBPD that are bothersome to me, as she knew how to push buttons. However, there are also many others that just make me laugh at the absurdity of them -- especially knowing what I know these days about BPD.

It does get easier over time (albeit not in a straight line).


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: GreenMango on May 06, 2013, 03:19:12 PM
It's good to ask ourselves why we stayed in light of these things.

Some of them written would normally be considered relationship killers.

It was a profound lesson for me on boundaries and expectations.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hurt llama on May 06, 2013, 03:26:13 PM
I'd be curious of some of these (insane and that's not judging) comments were delivered in similar 'tone' to my exBPD fiancee/gf?

As I posted, she had a very calm clear voice that rarely was 'intense' in tone which made her CrazyGram(tm) one liners to just sound so 'normal'. That added to making it even harder to interpret what she was saying or why.

Took awhile to realize they didn't need to be 're interpreted' as the messages were as clear as they were delivered.

Chilling.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: GreenMango on May 06, 2013, 03:34:25 PM
When someone lacks congruency between their words and actions - like tone vs content or I love you but I treat you like crap -  that's the moment to reassess things.

Seriously reassess things.  If you didn't or couldn't get an acceptable explanation at best you are dealing with an emotionally immature person not ready for a mature relationship ... .  At worst, well read around at some of the real deal dysfunctional dynamics that can unroll with a person who has BPD.

It's a good lesson on how do things differently next time, what mistakes not to make twice, etc.



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: delgato on May 06, 2013, 03:40:42 PM
It's good to ask ourselves why we stayed in light of these things.

Some of them written would normally be considered relationship killers.

It was a profound lesson for me on boundaries and expectations.

I think part of it might be that we're so "thrown off" by such comments/statements, that we're not really sure how to process. I know this happened to me a number of times.

Perhaps try to justify thru our rose-colored glasses? Give people the benefit of the doubt? Try to understand from their point-of-view why somebody would say that?


To be fair to ourselves, I think pwBPD can certainly have a way with words, and at least on the surface can "explain away" certain things, attempting to make it look as if we misinterpreted or something.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Wooddragon on May 06, 2013, 04:42:29 PM
Very early in the relationship showing me the scar down the middle of his chest where he had broken ribs "a woman once told me that that's where they cut out my heart"

"All my life women have been imposing themselves on me"

"I know what you're thinking - you think I want to [have sex with] other women"

"It's not true that past behaviour indicates likely future behaviour - they proved on mythbusters that you can teach an old dog new tricks!"

As a mental health initiative here they had an "are you ok day" where you check in with friends. A friend of him texted him " are you ok" & he had a paranoid meltdown about why she would be asking that. I had visions of all the paranoics & psychos around the place getting triggered by these texts out of the blue. Mental health initiative fail! lol


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Mark2430 on May 06, 2013, 05:04:06 PM
Ahhh I almost forgot the best one... .  Friday Night "you are the best boyfriend I have ever had you are so thoughtful and sweet".   Saturday " I went out to lunch with my ex-husband and we went to look at wedding rings".  LMAO!


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Hurt llama on May 06, 2013, 05:19:17 PM
When someone lacks congruency between their words and actions - like tone vs content or I love you but I treat you like crap -  that's the moment to reassess things.

Seriously reassess things.  If you didn't or couldn't get an acceptable explanation at best you are dealing with an emotionally immature person not ready for a mature relationship ... .  At worst, well read around at some of the real deal dysfunctional dynamics that can unroll with a person who has BPD.

It's a good lesson on how do things differently next time, what mistakes not to make twice, etc.

Perfectly stated. This will never happen to me again. I don't say that being cocky. I just am zoned in and knew it was bizarre at the time. I got sucked in deep for the usual complex and yet simple dynamics.

Forewarned is forearmed.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: BorderlineMagnet on May 06, 2013, 05:44:23 PM
One from each ex pwBPDgf. The rager: "You know I'm your only friend, right?" and my response was "Funny, I'm going out to a movie with friends tonight. Guess you're not."

The cheater: After me finding out about her secret new BF on Facebook: "Why can't you just be happy for me?" Me: "Because you cheated and lied to me, that's why."


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: MontyD on May 06, 2013, 06:16:57 PM
Here is a couple of one liners I got dished out to me.

These when she was pushing me away:  

"If I were you I'd just walk away".  

"I can't be with you any more"

"I don't love you anymore".

And this one, in the middle of heated foreplay: "I can't do this any more, you'll have to go".  

These when she was pulling me back:

"I miss u so much. I realise now the pain involved in not being with u isnt worth it. Can i see u?"

"I love you and miss you so much it hurts"

"I love you so much, I'm not giving up on us"

I've heard all the above so many times, you start to wonder if they mean it.

Monty



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: cska on May 06, 2013, 06:22:19 PM
I've heard all the above so many times, you start to wonder if they mean it.

I think they do mean it, but the have no consistency. So they can "change their minds" in minutes. But I do think that they mean it when they say it... .


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Wooddragon on May 06, 2013, 07:14:24 PM
As a mental health initiative here they had an "are you ok day" where you check in with friends. A friend of him texted him " are you ok" & he had a paranoid meltdown about why she would be asking that. I had visions of all the paranoics & psychos around the place getting triggered by these texts out of the blue. Mental health initiative fail! lol

Hahahahahahaha! So funny! Unless you are around when it happens I guess, but lol!

It was actually funny in real time & the fact that he couldn't see the joke made it more so. I think I must have been in the early stages of detachment by then!


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: cal644 on May 06, 2013, 07:45:43 PM
Umm here's a few.

You know I would sell my body for you (she denies she said this)

I don't even feel love for the girls at times (denied again)

My biggest regret is you married me becuase I am just a shell of a person (can't deny - saved text)

I wish I could just melt in the ground and disappear

All of our good friends that I should reach out to are in a fog and I can't reach out to them

I never lied to you once (lamo - lie after lie after lie) until she would get caught - and then she would still lie.

I am a shell of a person


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Blessed0329 on May 06, 2013, 09:18:12 PM
Before my ex left the place where we worked together, he was trying to tell me he has BPD. (I already knew before he told me.) He was talking about his chaotic, violent, and unnurturing childhood, and how he has a disconnect with people at times as a result. I said, "I know what this is called." in total seriousness he said, ":)on't say psychopath." That made me pause, and I realized he has been called a psychopath before.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: me757 on May 06, 2013, 09:29:05 PM
A day after my grandmother died my ex called me up drunk (at 8pm) and said "You have competition... .  " and then said "we wouldn't make it a week apart during xmas break", which was a month away. She said "others seemed to want her more... . " I was then like "if we cant make it a week apart, we're done."

she of course freaked out when i didnt let us recycle 2 days later and since then still gets upset at me cus i "didnt fight for her"... .

yikes... .


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: KellyO on May 07, 2013, 01:24:17 AM
I definitely have said pretty nasty things myself during my rs with ex-bf, but these were things he said in the beginning of our relationship, and I overlooked them all.... . or at least tried to:

- "I don't have decided yet if you are smart or stupid, but you must be quite stupid to be with me" (this was in the first two weeks)

- "first 3 years gave me a lot, but after that it was nothing" (about his 6 years realtionship wiht ex gf)

- "When I'm with people I'm a mirror"

- "when people give something, they just think what they can get back, so there is no need to give them anything, everybody is selfish"

- "Now when you have given me a computer, I could as well dump you" (I gave my old pc to him).

- "I have no idea what I see in you".

- "We have a love-hate relationship, you hate me and I love you" (really, it felt like vice-versa to me... .  )

- ":)on't you understand how it feels for me if  you are afraid of me, I have to leave you right now!" (and he did, we were just going to leave for a holiday and it made him flip out totally and he started to threaten me and I was so damn sceared).

- "It gives me anxiety when you demand sex"

- "It gives me anxiety when you don't demand sex, I don't feel myself wanted" (this was really hilarious and mind-blowing, do this do that, it is never right).

- "I made those dating profiles to show myself how much I love you" (... .  )

- "I know I have hurt you, but it was my path and I had to follow it" (God I hate that drama-nonsense he pulls out from his sleeves when  I catched him from lies)


This is what he said last time I met him, and it really really made me see the light... .  I will never ever touch that man again:

- "I tought you were nice person when we met, to my disappointment you were not nice at all".

I just said: "well, I never  thought you were nice person, not even in the beginning". That was end of that conversation. I had bend myself backwards, I had worked like maniac to make our rs to work, make him be happy and for what? Nothing. I had been right in my heart from the beginning when I said to him I have a feeling he did not like me as a person, if he finds so much wrong in me it would be better to leave me. This ended in raging and blaming and whatnots. When after 2, 5 years he finally told me what he really thought of me, it was a relief. I was finally over.

His last message to me was " I don't blame you for anything", by now I know that is BS, he blaims me for everything that happened. I have witnessed how his memory wipes out all the things he does and says, and only thing he remembers is how happy he has been in our rs and how I lied to him about me being happy too. I have destroyed his relationship!

Why I fell love with him? He was just like my mother.



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: VeryFree on May 07, 2013, 01:25:37 AM
While we were negotiating money during divorce process: "Yes, that is correct... .  I do believe that my 401K should be left in my name and his 401K be split 50/50. My money should be mine and his money is ours to split."

Beautiful quote: it's exactly the same which my stbxw used (different amounts)!

She followed with: "those are my rights"!


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: VeryFree on May 07, 2013, 01:30:48 AM
My no. 4. Background: when we first met her life was falling apart. Burn-out, family-issues, lot of sadness.

After ten years together:

"I wish I never met you, I had a beautiful life before you came around. You have ruined my wonderful existence."



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: GreenMango on May 07, 2013, 01:42:41 AM
I know that this stuff didn't all of a sudden just pop up one day... .  it was a slow acceleration that when it picked up speed next thing I knew it was like being on a runaway train with no brakes.  The flood gates had opened and closing them off was next to impossible - Cross that intimacy threshold and this kind of stuff eventually gets triggered.

A day after my grandmother died my ex called me up drunk (at 8pm) and said "You have competition... .  " and then said "we wouldn't make it a week apart during xmas break", which was a month away. She said "others seemed to want her more... . " I was then like "if we cant make it a week apart, we're done."

she of course freaked out when i didnt let us recycle 2 days later and since then still gets upset at me cus i "didnt fight for her"... .

yikes... .

Lack of empathy - plain and simple.  Out of insecurity but that's beside the point.

Pretty scary right when we realize someone we thought we knew doesn't really have the requisite level of empathy. 

I've heard all the above so many times, you start to wonder if they mean it.

I think they do mean it, but the have no consistency. So they can "change their minds" in minutes. But I do think that they mean it when they say it... .

How beautiful is consistency to you now?   It's a wonderful and precious thing to me - hard not to appreciate when you've had the opposite.

Before my ex left the place where we worked together, he was trying to tell me he has BPD. (I already knew before he told me.) He was talking about his chaotic, violent, and unnurturing childhood, and how he has a disconnect with people at times as a result. I said, "I know what this is called." in total seriousness he said, ":)on't say psychopath." That made me pause, and I realized he has been called a psychopath before.

Frightening - Imagine a life with someone who has the features and characteristics of anti-social behavior.  What a blessing he outed himself.



I pay attention to this kind of stuff nowadays... .  it's so telling.  Especially when it's a pattern.  It's not a one off thing. 

One of the 10 beliefs that can keep you stuck is #2 Belief that your BPD partner feels the same way that you feel

If you believe that your BPD partner was experiencing the relationship in the same way that you were or that they are feeling the same way you do right now, don’t count on it. This will only serve to confuse you and make it harder to understand what is really happening. Read more (https://bpdfamily.com/bpdresources/nk_a109.htm#2)

This goes beyond feeling... .  BPD is affects thinking, feelings and actions.  Unfortunately the disorder, and those funky things we heard if part of the disorder, give you a glimpse into the alternative way this person interprets, feels, and operates in the world.  It's a disorder noted for the unstable interpersonal relationships - you got a first hand taste of that instability. 

The best thing each person could do for themselves after this is take a long hard look inward so it doesn't happen again.  Look at those compromises that were made, where the missteps happened.  Become a better guardian of your stability, your emotional health and happiness. 


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: ScotisGone74 on May 07, 2013, 03:06:34 AM
As I'm standing outside the door talking to her I ask her about a 'intimate relationship' she posted on her FB page someone told me about.  When I asked her she said "So What, big deal".  Then as I'm about to leave, while of course this other guy is in her house she said crying to me " I just want my Best friend back" and gave me a hug and asked me to hold her-sheeeshhh. 

after seeing me for two years she marries this guy she was hiding in her house 7 weeks later. 



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Juliecelle on May 07, 2013, 03:26:11 AM
The most recent:

"I'm worried about you. I want you to get help. I think you might have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."

Uh, ya think! Hmmm, haven't been in a war. Had a great childhood. Haven't been abused. Oh wait... .  I'm married to a Borderline! 'Nuff said.



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: LetItBe on May 07, 2013, 10:03:03 AM
His last message to me was " I don't blame you for anything", by now I know that is BS, he blaims me for everything that happened. I have witnessed how his memory wipes out all the things he does and says

Why I fell love with him? He was just like my mother.

My uBPDxbf also "reassured" me in his last message, "I hold no blame or ill will" -- after blaming me twice in the same message.

I also fell in love with him because he was just like my mother.  

I've learned enough finally not to put myself in those circumstances again ever.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: lhd981 on May 07, 2013, 11:21:06 AM
Another eyebrow-raising one:

We were happily driving on a beautiful spring day, holding hands as she often liked to do while we drove, when I began talking to her about a new client of mine and how they were involved in the adult film industry.

She excitedly asked all sorts of questions about how much adult actresses get paid, etc (which I didn't have the answers to - we were only hired to do their computer network!). At one point, I speculated that they must have some big bucksl, as the office was very sleek and modern. Her response made me... . uncomfortable:

"Find out how much, because I'd totally take <vulgar word for penis> for an hour if it meant making a few grand".

She said this while smiling and holding my hand, as if there was nothing weird about it. No, we didn't have an open relationship.



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: leftbehind on May 07, 2013, 02:25:46 PM
"I've had a spiritual shift, and our energies don't match anymore, so I can't be with you."  This was six days after calling me up to tell me he was incredibly in love with me, and writing me an email saying what a wonderful woman I am, and that I'm God's gift to him.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: leftbehind on May 07, 2013, 05:27:01 PM
Iamdevastated, she sounds like a psychopath.  So sorry you had to endure that.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Katsky on May 08, 2013, 06:54:02 PM
When I was dumped by text message (I was ill in bed with a bad cold),

"You're a cruel heartless b-----d and i am so f-----g rid of you. I hate you"

"Just stay out of my f----g life. I F----g hate you. I was clinging to the hope that you actually had an ounce of feeling in you. You are the most evil, cruel, selfish person I have ever had the misfortune to meet."

"there is only one thing i can do to hurt you just as much. I have nothing else to lose"

(This final was a suicide threat: over the three yeas or so, there had been hundreds of suicide threats)


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: BrewCrew17 on May 08, 2013, 07:50:11 PM
"That is weird that you would love someone and want to be with them forever"

"The grass is definitely greener on the other side because my life is without you"

"No it means NOTHING you took care of my daughter for 5 years and she called you daddy"




Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: feelingcrazy7832 on May 08, 2013, 09:28:54 PM
Wow! I've heard so many similar things it's scary. Well, I have heard so many one liners that are insane but will focus on the last argument that hopefully ended things forever and I never hear from his again. To give background, we were going to leave for a vacation with my daughter until two days before I found out he was doing drugs again. I had his phone and he physically grabbed me and ripped my jacket to get phone. Obviously, I didn't let him go on trip and ended it. I had his briefcase at my house.

Next day... .  goes from screaming his head off, to then making up a story of how someone told him I was seeing someone else (total LIE no one called him and told him that), to then being nice, to then him calling me crying hysterically on phone saying "if you don't give me my briefcase I will put a bullet in my head and it will be all your fault". (his briefcase had some legal info he needed to get his license back which I fully intended on giving back to him.) He was sobbing, threatening suicide and telling me I'm to blame.

Next day I was driving to his house to drop it off. I called like 10 times but I couldn't get a word in because he was screaming at the top of his lungs going insane telling me to F off, calling me names, then hanging up. All I was trying to do is tell him I was dropping his bag off before my flight left. I got 30 seconds away from his house and turned around. Felt it was not safe to be around him. I got more angry voicemails threatening me. Let him know I would not drop it off when he was acting that way. Blocked his calls. 5 days later, I’m getting emails while I'm on vacation “I’ve always been so taken by you, I don’t care about the briefcase, I love you and miss you, please talk to me, there’s so much I want to say, I can’t say sorry enough” begging and pleading and professing his undying love to talk to me. Now he doesn’t care about bag.

I leave his bag when I get home outside on my deck and tell him to come get it while I'm at work. He didn't pay me pack money he owed me so a few days later I Ask him for the money he owed me and I started getting texts about “I was just trying to hold on to something when I sent you those emails, nothing lasts forever, this relationship was over the day you started to see someone else (which was a made up story….does he really believe his own lies I wonder?).

A minute later “I know that wasn’t really the end of our relationship”

When I call him out on his B.S. “Please don’t contact me ever again, nothing good will come out of it”

Um, I didn’t contact you for anything other than to return your briefcase and get the money he owed me. I broke it off with him, not the other way around.

This seriously all happened within a matter of a week and a half.

It seemed like he could switch on and off like a switch. It’s pure insanity to think of it. God, I have so many stories like this it’s traumatic to think about them all.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: feelingcrazy7832 on May 08, 2013, 09:30:07 PM
Here's a good one... .  

"I should have F--ed her" referring to a woman who apparently tried to talk to him at the bar one night during one of our fights when we weren't together.

Later that day he would be telling me he was trying to make me jealous and he loved me.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Katsky on May 08, 2013, 10:38:10 PM
10 months after she dumped me:

"Everyone really likes me now. I'm so popular."

"My boyfriend likes me so much. I make him happy. We never argue and I'm so good in bed."

"My boyfriend said that I'm the hottest piece of ass in the department."

"I'm not in love with him. It's an arrangement for the time being. He knows that."

"I don't feel suicidal anymore. I don't need you."

4 months later:

"No one has ever been so nice to me - we are moving to [... .  ] together later this year."

She dumped him two months later.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: ComoLu on May 09, 2013, 12:03:46 AM
Here are some of my favorites:

"I know you are sleeping with P... .  (our adult son)."

"I was justified in cheating on you because you were mean to me."

"You made me cheat on you."

"Maybe you were the one who abandoned our family." I still live w/our kids and grandkids.  He lives on the other side of the country.

And my current favorite, "Why are you being so mysterious and secretive?"

I have finally gotten to the point where I can just laugh.


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: WillSurvive420 on May 09, 2013, 01:06:44 AM
I wouldn't tell you IF I did cheat on you/sleep with another guy.

Yeah, Im totally going to go suck off 12 mexican guys tonight... .  (in a sarcastic way)


Those WERE the DEALBREAKERS for me... .  NC after that point, esp since at that point we were "broken up" but still having sex... .  ?


Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: bewildered2 on May 09, 2013, 02:59:31 AM
my ex-BPD had just returned from a caribbean vacation visiting a girlfriend... .  we hopped into bed and started messing around... .  it got a little touchy touchy and she said "ow, it's a little sore dowjn there"... .  

i looked at her and said, "what?"

she replied, "it's sore from lack of use"!

she admitted much later that she had slept with two other guys while she had been away. 

you gotta laugh, they are so screwed up!

b2



Title: Re: One liners from your exBPD that blew your mind.
Post by: Want2know on May 09, 2013, 04:35:14 AM
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