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Midnightowl
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« on: April 14, 2020, 02:27:07 AM »

I am currently going through a very difficult time.

My wife of 18 months and partner of 9 years has had BPD issues springing up through the relationship, leaving  me twice already telling me she doesn’t want me anymore and threatening many times more (usually comes round after a few days)

Things that trigger these actions are normally minuscule things that she lies out of proportion.

She told me last week out of nowhere she wants a divorce. I have begged and pleaded but she is showing no recourse.

We had been planning to move to a bigger house and start a family, she was leading all of this.
I can’t understand how we can go from that one week to this the next.

We are still both in the same house, she is in a spare bedroom, only coming out for good and washroom. She has made no effort to speak to me once this last week..

The day after she told me she wanted a divorce she  signed up to a dating app, which has confused me how someone could do that so soon and has made me really low. She also deleted all photos of me on her social media and had blocked me - I wasn’t even messaging her


I have no idea what to do. I married her to spend the rest of my life with her. When she goes through these spells it’s mentally draining. I have lost 8lbs in a week. I want to get back with her but realise now that if we did before we have children she is finally going to have to get therapy otherwise this is not going to improve.

This is the first big trip since we have been married (there have been smaller ones) will she change her mind, or does she see me as too black in her trans like split? What should I do?
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2020, 12:57:47 PM »

Hi & welcome.

Your situation is eerily similar to one I've recently experienced with my ex. I'm sorry that yours is further complicated by the fact you are married.

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We had been planning to move to a bigger house and start a family, she was leading all of this.
I can’t understand how we can go from that one week to this the next.

This resonates, we currently rent an apartment together but she is in the process of buying her own and wanted me to move in, we were in a furniture store not so long ago and she was recommending what furniture I should get for my things. Not long after she called it off.

After dumping me yeah she pretty much immediately signed up to the old dating site where we first met. She's up until the early hours chatting to other men. I'm pretty sure by now she's lined-up my replacement for when the lock-down is lifted. The speed at which they do these things is incredible! Blocked / Deleted me immediately from social networks along with all my close family / friends. Bizarre, when they did the dumping. Perhaps it's symptomatic of their 'splitting' & de-valuing, this form of erasure, I'm not expert enough to know.

I guess, and I think it's true in my ex's case she felt deeply unloved & ignored. I've been spending a lot of time on work projects and studying and I know she felt neglected by that and I felt incredibly guilty but it was a difficult balancing act, unfortunately spending quality time with a loved one doesn't pay the bills. I had always encouraged her to build her own network of friends/ social life and not rely on me so much for her happiness. She started looking elsewhere for social interactions, but I think in my case she just wanted to explore those interactions at a far more deeper level.

Maybe you need to try and explore what issues there are in your relationship? Do you make enough time for her? Do you communicate at a level she can relate to? In my case I think we may aswell have been speaking different languages during conflicts.
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2020, 09:41:19 AM »

Thank you for your response.

The problem I have is there is no chance of dialogue. Any time I speak to her it’s ‘ I won’t change my mind’

With the lockdown, I have the same sentiment in that as soon as she has more freedom, that will be it over.

I have faith that she will come back one day (this has happened before, several times up to two months) however the splitting whilst being married had really got to me.

I have moved out to a hotel to help things for a few nights

I support her a lot through her ventures in life and give plenty of attention and time, but I relate to communication in times like this. There is no getting through. Suggestions of counselling are laughed at. I feel like I am speaking to a 15 year old when she has split. Without now sounding desperate to her, I feel there is nothing more I can do. And it’s just waiting game now.

I just thought marriage would relate more to her and she would realise you can’t just drop it after a split. I feel like I’m going to love my whole life now thinking of what happened and how it can possibly be explained
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