Diagnosis + Treatment
The Big Picture
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? [ Video ]
Five Dimensions of Human Personality
Think It's BPD but How Can I Know?
DSM Criteria for Personality Disorders
Treatment of BPD [ Video ]
Getting a Loved One Into Therapy
Top 50 Questions Members Ask
Home page
Forum
List of discussion groups
Making a first post
Find last post
Discussion group guidelines
Tips
Romantic relationship in or near breakup
Child (adult or adolescent) with BPD
Sibling or Parent with BPD
Boyfriend/Girlfriend with BPD
Partner or Spouse with BPD
Surviving a Failed Romantic Relationship
Tools
Wisemind
Ending conflict (3 minute lesson)
Listen with Empathy
Don't Be Invalidating
Setting boundaries
On-line CBT
Book reviews
Member workshops
About
Mission and Purpose
Website Policies
Membership Eligibility
Please Donate
May 02, 2025, 09:56:59 PM
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
5 Hours
1 Day
1 Week
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Board Admins:
Kells76
,
Once Removed
,
Turkish
Senior Ambassadors:
EyesUp
,
SinisterComplex
Help!
Boards
Please Donate
Login to Post
New?--Click here to register
Experts share their discoveries
[video]
99
Could it be BPD
BPDFamily.com Production
Listening to shame
Brené Brown, PhD
What is BPD?
Blasé Aguirre, MD
What BPD recovery looks like
Documentary
BPDFamily.com
>
Relationship Partner with BPD (Straight and LGBT+)
>
Romantic Relationship | Detaching and Learning after a Failed Relationship
> Topic:
I was doing so well
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
« previous
next »
Print
Author
Topic: I was doing so well (Read 430 times)
allinasmile
Offline
What is your sexual orientation: Straight
Posts: 17
I was doing so well
«
on:
August 13, 2014, 10:11:06 PM »
I was in a 8 year relationship with my BPD and his older diagnosed BPD daughter. They are both way to emotionally intimate and as he actually called her "his wife". It was difficult to the point that I still can't believe I stayed. If she wasn't using me as her whipping post, she would go after one of my children either because she could use them as her scapegoat while as a teen or in an attempt to hold me and my family over her dads head as being more important to him than her. Regardless they were both riggers to the other. Painful painful experiences and episodes. But when your normal and you think you have the incredible person in your life that you put first always you think that some day they will see the light. Did I pay attention to the fact that he had been married three times and had countless other shorter term relationships. No because when your in the dream "we think we are different" Did I pay attention to,the fact that his mother had left his father when he was a toddler and he had been shifted around for two years before his aunt and uncle took them to raise. Nope. He just has a few trust issues I thought and I can love him enough. Could I live with his daughter. Oh yes she will grow up and have a life. Last summer after I worked a 12 hour day and she had lounged by his pool all day I announced I was going to Yoga. She blasted me for only ever cooking for my daughter who lives out of state and I see three times a year. Of course we all know none of that is true. As I cooked for her and her friends for two years when I lived with
Him and her mother on many occasions. At 25 she is still entrenched more than ever. Why because they re the only two that can stand each other. It didn't matter that when when we traveled, he used to relax and enjoy when we were away, cause all it took was a phone call from her and he would tail spin and guess who became the whipping post. The day I decided to level was when the daughter wanted to have another serious conversation with me at 25. Only to be told that although I was a good mother to my children I would never love her that way and what had I ever done for her and on and on and on. I listened and validated then responded with all of the times I was at the hospital during her episodes (suicide) attempts and did I do,this and this nod this. She responded there you go keeping score. WOW. The next day I told him I was going back to my place and the following day he reached out to me. Always on that he needed something from me. Thanks to the advice on this site I text him I needed a little break from the relationship,and promptly blocked him from text phone Facebook and email. I didn't hear from him for 4 months when he contacted me from an unknown number. Again he needed to ask me a question I answered and said ok bye. Two months later he called me again from an unknown number with a question and I answered him and said ok bye. His attempts in the past to get me back have never been I am sorry ha I screwed up, ha I need you in my life, ha. A mutual friend told me 45 min later on the same day he posted on his Facebook that he was in a relationship. Why does this bother me? She's not going to eventually get anything better than I got. In one of our past break ups when I herd he was dating I reached out to him and eventually the girl did something to trigger him and I was back. It merely upset me at first but it is continuing to haunt me. I don't want that world back in my life. Darn it. I was barely thinking of him and wham.
Logged
Can You Help Us Stay on the Air in 2024?
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
Print
BPDFamily.com
>
Relationship Partner with BPD (Straight and LGBT+)
>
Romantic Relationship | Detaching and Learning after a Failed Relationship
> Topic:
I was doing so well
« previous
next »
Jump to:
Please select a destination:
-----------------------------
Help Desk
-----------------------------
===> Open board
-----------------------------
Relationship Partner with BPD (Straight and LGBT+)
-----------------------------
=> Romantic Relationship | Bettering a Relationship or Reversing a Breakup
=> Romantic Relationship | Conflicted About Continuing, Divorcing/Custody, Co-parenting
=> Romantic Relationship | Detaching and Learning after a Failed Relationship
-----------------------------
Children, Parents, or Relatives with BPD
-----------------------------
=> Son, Daughter or Son/Daughter In-law with BPD
=> Parent, Sibling, or In-law Suffering from BPD
-----------------------------
Community Built Knowledge Base
-----------------------------
=> Library: Psychology questions and answers
=> Library: Tools and skills workshops
=> Library: Book Club, previews and discussions
=> Library: Video, audio, and pdfs
=> Library: Content to critique for possible feature articles
=> Library: BPDFamily research surveys
Our 2023 Financial Sponsors
We are all appreciative of the members who provide the funding to keep BPDFamily on the air.
12years
alterK
AskingWhy
At Bay
Cat Familiar
CoherentMoose
drained1996
EZEarache
Flora and Fauna
ForeverDad
Gemsforeyes
Goldcrest
Harri
healthfreedom4s
hope2727
khibomsis
Lemon Squeezy
Memorial Donation (4)
Methos
Methuen
Mommydoc
Mutt
P.F.Change
Penumbra66
Red22
Rev
SamwizeGamgee
Skip
Swimmy55
Tartan Pants
Turkish
whirlpoollife
Loading...