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Old Apr 20, 2013, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by expos View Post
What I meant by this is that people with Borderline Personality Disorder will usually use sex, and constant admiration to lure you in at the very beginning. This is common in some relationships, but it more or less used by someone with BPD to get control, and less for emotion and pleasure.

Our sex life died after marriage. People with BPD often experience a love-hate relationship with others. They may idealize someone one moment (when we got married) and then abruptly and dramatically shift to fury and hate over perceived slights or even misunderstandings. This is when the sex ended. This is because people with the disorder have difficulty accepting gray areas — things are either black or white. For instance, in the eyes of a person with BPD, someone is either good or evil. And that same person may be good one day and evil the next...but the reality here is that I did not change!

I should clarify that I do not want a relationship with this person again. Because of her illness, she does not feel bad about us or myself, only herself. She will not grieve the loss of me in her life. But people with BPD tend to come back and begin the cycle over again - idealizing, seducing, etc. However, in our case, I think the divorce was possibly too traumatic for her to return to...and I think it's really for the best.

She is on to repeating her cycle with the next guy who she feels is her next vehicle.

My ex husband has a prognosis of Borderline; I still have to interact with him on a regular basis, due to us having minor children together.

Why are you worried about her coming back into your life? Why entertain this, at all? With less than 10 years of marriage, in my state, there is no alimony. And the divorce contract, that I have, clearly states who is responsible for which debts.

Perhaps, that's where I am confused about where you are coming from.

I can appreciate the victimization that comes from marrying a borderline, however, at some point, a victim deals with what being a victim is about, grows, learns and becomes a survivor, strong enough to realize, they don't need to worry about being manipulated into another round of break up/get back together.

Hope you have the fortitude to avoid her come ons to you, if she were to try and return to you.

Are you no-contact with her?