I have to say that it does you no good to have the mindset that he deliberately laid a trap for you. No, he is just being BPD lack of maturity and disabled decision-making and this is how these situations just end up as their minds twist and turn.
Very true. I need to be consistent but my memory is not as good as it used to be. I could not believe how I forgot so easily the solution to the gift-exchange problem, and fell right back into the pattern of helping him obsess and get distressed over holiday shopping. I wanted him to have the expensive gift he asked me for, and I knew he probably couldn't buy it himself. I should have just bought it for him, but not as a Christmas gift, and not sent him out looking for something for me. Oh well. Thanks.