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« on: April 20, 2025, 09:14:46 AM »

I’ve been seeing this girl for around three years now with the typical problems that come along with a pwpbd like push/pull, hot/cold, some short term ghosting, etc. over those three years I’ve listened to her talk about how badly family, friends, and even ex treated her (she showed me screenshots of how badly her ex treated her and he was just flat out disrespectful to her) and how she was completely turned off and done with them she would block them on social media then unblock them after a few days and act like nothing ever happened.

Now when it comes to me she did things that she wouldn’t allow anyone else to do like I spent a ton of time with her family including on holidays, she trusted me with her son and I would take him on day/weekend trips when she had to travel for work. She never ever let any of her exes around her family or son alone at all, but when she would block me on social media it would be for months at a time Even though we were together in real life. A little over three months ago we had an argument and I did loose my cool a bit with her for the first time in 3 years but I definitely didn’t say anything I would regret and she ghosted me for those three months. A week ago she reached out to me again and showed up at my house, we spent the night together where she kept saying things like how much she missed me and all the little things I did for her over those three months. The next morning we went out to breakfast before she went home then she started acting a kitchen distant but nothing out of the ordinary, she was kinda dry with her replies but was sending me a ton of pics of what she was doing at work and even videos of her son. Then last night she sends me a text saying she just doesn’t feel a connection anymore (like I mentioned she’s said this about her ex several times) and how something I posted on Facebook (it was just a picture she had taken of me riding a bike the summer before that came up on my memories) few weeks before was done just to piss her off and blocked me on everything again.

I guess the part I’m confused about is why would she allow me to become so close with her and her family when no one else was able too, why do I get blocked for months on end, and why did she “loose the connection” with me over a picture I posted that had no malice intent to it. What makes me so different that I get treated so different then everyone else?
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2025, 12:22:54 AM »

What makes me so different that I get treated so different then everyone else?

Hey Joe, and welcome to the family!

The dynamic you're describing is the hallmarks of BPD and what it's like to struggle with disordered thinking.  You're looking at this logically, like she's thought everything out, made responsible decisions at every turn, and arrived at a sound conclusion.  That's not at all what happened though in her mind- she doesn't think that way when she's emotionally off-balance.

She did (and does) love you.  She did trust you.  But she felt that the trust was betrayed and the more she examined it, the more she came to conclusions that 1 + 1 = 7.  The bike photo, for example, she believed that you posted it specifically to harm her. 

That's disordered thinking, and from that illogical assumption, she ends up reaching out, spending the night, etc.  When things went well she allowed herself to feel all the great stuff she used to feel for you, but once she had time alone and got into her feelings, she convinced herself that it was all a lie or a trick.  So she reacted in a way that she thought was appropriate- she just blew everything up and ran.

This is pretty much everyone's story that posts in the relationship forums- we're experienced this once or many times with BPD partners.  And it happens in cycles where the BPD continues to re-evaluate their actions and tries to reconnect, only to sabotage things all over again at the first sign of instability.  It's likely nothing you did either, because it all stems from mental illness and emotionally-charged thoughts that lead to illogical conclusions (like 1+1 = 7).

I hope that helps and I feel for you...please feel free to talk this out while you're processing things.
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2025, 07:34:26 PM »

Yeah get the whole there’s no figuring it out thing, I think the part that I’m trying to figure out is why did I get more access to her private life then everyone else. Why did she trust me Around her son and family. No one else has ever even met her parents let alone spend all the major holidays with them for the last 3 years, and she would let me take her sin on trips too.
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2025, 10:27:11 PM »

Yeah get the whole there’s no figuring it out thing, I think the part that I’m trying to figure out is why did I get more access to her private life then everyone else. Why did she trust me Around her son and family. No one else has ever even met her parents let alone spend all the major holidays with them for the last 3 years, and she would let me take her sin on trips too.

That's easy- she loved you and trusted you.  It was as real for her as it was for you.

When you were a kid, did you ever think that there was a monster under your bed?  Or one hiding in the closet?  There wasn't, but as kids with big imaginations, the more we thought about something like that, the more scared we became and those thoughts became our reality.  The "danger" was fake, yet the emotions we felt in that moment were real.

That's what your ex goes through in every close relationship- she's always searching for the monster hiding somewhere and that guarantees that she'll eventually find it.  That's mental illness, my friend, and it's incredibly sad.  It's not your fault though and in many ways, it's not her fault either.
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2025, 01:16:20 AM »

Yeah get the whole there’s no figuring it out thing, I think the part that I’m trying to figure out is why did I get more access to her private life then everyone else. Why did she trust me Around her son and family. No one else has ever even met her parents let alone spend all the major holidays with them for the last 3 years, and she would let me take her sin on trips too.

As my cohort Pook explained...there is no reason to overthink it. She loved you and trusted you and in her mind it was the right thing to do to tell you.

I mean overanalyzing that part is not healthy my friend.

Cheers and Best Wishes!

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