because laughter is the best medicine

[talks to angels]

I know some may not be at the right place yet. I go back and forth, But I do try to find humor in the absurd stories or events that happened with my ex. Thought this might be a light hearted topic for those in the right place to share some of our humorous experiences.

One of mine I can laugh at is when I caught him sleeping in bed with a girl, he said I shouldnt be mad because I never told him I didnt want him having girls sleep in his bed, and they were both drunk so what was he suppose to do have her sleep on the sofa? - moron

[CooperD]

One of my humorous BPD memories was when we were visiting a guitar store in amsterdam. 

Some of the guitars in the store were vintage and very very expensive and so there was a little sign for all guests to leave their bags behind the counter. 

My BPD didn't want to do this but eventually agreed to hand over her bags so we could go in.  I play guitar and wanted to go in.

In a deliberate act of defiance at having her bag taken off her she then decided it would be a good idea to try to annoy the staff as much as possible and decided to randomly start hitting the guitars on the walls by strumming the strings (despite the fact each had please do not touch written on it).

Eventually asked to stop doing it by staff and within 5 minutes we were both out of the shop.  Not sure if its humorous but a little example of how such a small thing would spark a tantrum.  At least not directed at me for once but instead the poor guitars.

[talks to angels]

CooperD =  ya like a child, you cant tell me what to do. Goes along with their emotional IQ

[talks to angels]

Another time was when he was trying to rent a car with his reloadable wal mart card, they said they needed a credit card, he argued this was the same as a credit card, he was so mad that they wouldnt take it. And to think at one point i thought he was intelligent

[Pipedreamer25]

My ex once had a tantrum because I bought the wrong flavour dip for a picnic.  He literally flipped out when he unpacked the groceries and screamed.  "You don't understand me or care about me at all!"  Even then I had to giggle.  He'd read the label wrong it was exactly the type of dip he wanted.   

[CooperD]

Pipedreamer thats a good one - and reminds me of a grocery food  incident with my BPD. 

When she lived here for 3-4 months I paid for absolutely everything including all the food she consumed (she would also only eat from the most expensive supermarket here and of course I spent fortunes on nice restaurants for her). 

Anyway despite doing this for her she actually told her own mother and my parents that I was deliberately starving her ! She actually used the words starve.

I find it funny now because she actually used to come to do the food shopping / she would also do quite a bit of the cooking - yet it was me that was starving her.  She even put weight on when she was here but her story which she was convinced of was that I was deliberately trying to starve her. 

Funny and sad.

[lovenature]

What ever they "feel" is their reality.
Mine used to bang on my door and talk loud enough for neighbors to hear, while telling me "don't make a scene". Projection?

[Me-Time]

Quite a few of these incidents with mine. One that really stands out is the time I made blueberry pancakes. She had once told me how she likes them made (there were very specific rules about a lot of things) but I had forgotten and made them how I had always made them before I met her (big, fluffy, and utterly delicious). I gave them to her and this caused a huuuge argument. She sounded like the "I want it now!" girl from Willy Wonka - "You know I like my pancakes SMALL and THIN!" Follow the logic here: my not remembering how she likes her pancakes and not making them to her liking means that she isn't important enough to remember these things for, which thus means I am not connected to her, which further equals a lack of commitment to her, which gives her reason to believe I could abandon her.

How do you keep up with this?

[lovenature]

How do you keep up with this?

Keep trying harder, get pushed away more, continue loosing yourself.
Best to get off the crazy train and back to sanity.

[ICantFixHer]

Friend: "It sounds like maybe your ex-girlfriend is a Cluster B."

Me: "Cluster F is more like it."

[CooperD]

'Me-Time'- you're pancake story gave me a smile as I had a very similar incident involving boiling eggs.  My BPD had a very specific method of how she would boil her eggs for breakast (had to be exact amount of time / and water had to be boiling before eggs put in the pan).

Well what did I do ? One morning I told her I would put her eggs in the pan so that she could stay in bed for an extra 5-10 minutes.  However I made the wicked mistake in her eyes of putting the eggs in the pan before the water was at a rolling boil and whilst the water was still cold.  The result she shouted and screamed at me for always doing EVERYTHING wrong and she was late for work due to her rage.

[Me-Time]

CooperD - how demanding and self-centered. There you were being thoughtful and trying to help, and that's what you get. Now, your story reminded me of my BPD's need for her toast to be a specific way. It had to be toasted, but not too toasted, just slightly undercooked. And it must be warm. But it had to be warm, buttered and jellied, and in that very state - as she was ready to walk out the door! I was cooking breakfast each morning for a while, and the timing of this was comical. I had to learn her routine (the switching on of the blowdryer was the cue!) so I knew exactly when to put the toast in for it to be exactly as she wanted it when she was ready to leave. She didn't yell at me if I didn't get it right, though. I'd just get the lecture as to how it was to be done and then she wouldn't eat what I made if it was wrong. smh