My question to you learned people, Is how can a human being employ such cognitive dissonance? and if it's all lies how can someone be such an inveterate liar?
It is very mind baffling isn't it?
The short answer is... .
Yes, there are people that can have such cognitive dissonance.
My partner would change his views and opinions based on who he was presenting them to. He was what they call a "chameleon" in he wanted to be acceptable in different situations, therefore presented split sides of himself or reflected what the desires were of the pple he was presenting to.
It blows my mind!
It appears you may have been here a bit. Are you finding reading the lessons helpful?
Reading around at the stories of others, and also reading the lessons and articles has really helped me unwind some of the mess of craziness that I have been around in my r/s and that has messed with my mind.
How are you doing with the b/u otherwise?
It's actually been quite a while since I was last here, months in fact. A lot of what happened I've moved on from.
We have in fact been getting along, distance wise. She will try to initiate contact in very small ways and I will ignore her, then she will actually text me or whatever and I will talk to her for a while, and then things will go quiet again. This suits me. But she always tries to push it a little bit further, get it more to that intimate level, and then she will push away. Perhaps a year ago this would bother me, but as far as I am concerned today, I'm somewhat indifferent. In fact contact with her bothers me less than it ever has, I don't actually care about talking to her, that need, that obsession has passed. The only reason I've commented me today is based upon that dichotomy of behaviours, of schemas. Where she can in one sense believe him to be a potential murderer, and on the other side of the coin he is literally described as perfect.
Reading everything you can will really help, Whether it be lessons here or through google. I have learned a lot about women, and in some ways it's made me less inclined to pursue - or at least rush into - a relationship and in other ways it lets me see the traits in others and in myself. It is eye-opening, and that knowledge actually seems to be a shield to further pursuance by other BPDs. It's like they know that I know what they're like and it scares them.