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Relationship Partner with BPD (Straight and LGBT+) => Romantic Relationship | Conflicted About Continuing, Divorcing/Custody, Co-parenting => Topic started by: statsattack on September 14, 2017, 09:45:37 PM



Title: Do they ever come back after restraining orders
Post by: statsattack on September 14, 2017, 09:45:37 PM
Just curious


Title: Re: Do they ever come back after restraining orders
Post by: ForeverDad on September 14, 2017, 10:02:28 PM
You mean no shared children, no shared assets or debts and no legal entanglements such as marriage?

Some may have you simmering on the back burner in case their current relationship supply ends.  Often they like to have fallback options so that when one relationship ends they can jump to the next one — or a prior one.

Or you may be so painted black that she'll never try again.

Whichever, best to accept that the relationship needs to be over, where BPD is involved it's virtually impossible to have a halfway relationship.  If you're looking for closure, that's something you won't get from here, you'll have to Gift Closure to yourself.  I hope you're wise enough not to jump back onto the endless roller coaster, having been burned with a scary restraining order.  As is often noted here, if allegations have been attempted or even just contemplated, they will happen again, given enough time.

This has been said many times so I don't know if there is an original quote to cite, but I remember from the original Star Trek series the starship Enterprise's engineer Scotty finally exclaimed to those on the Bridge, speaking of the Klingons trying to keep luring the Enterprise away from Captain Kirk and the landing party with a second false distress signal, "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me!"


Title: Re: Do they ever come back after restraining orders
Post by: statsattack on September 14, 2017, 10:57:43 PM
I got more closure than I could ever hope for. was just curious.