At times, having a wife with Borderline Personality Disorder sucks more than people can imagine. All the gaslighting, claims of hurt, screaming and false accusations based on imagined threats make me want to scream back “you have the mental illness, not me.” But the good and fun times can be extremely good and fun. Sometimes I wonder how I got into this.

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How did you get into this? How long did you date before you married? Were there warning signs or red flags? Would you marry her again if you could go back in time?

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Same here , I also wonder how I got into this - marrying my wife

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Did your upbringing expose you to some sort of normalizing abuse and craziness?

Please leave and find peace and healing. Google cycle of abuse. The health of your relationship isn’t in the high. It’s in the lows and how you rationally problem solve.

The longer you stay in this abuse, the more you will justify crazymaking. Stockholm syndrome is not love. If you leave the world’s worst relationship, you will still feel the void of the other person and may perceive it as “missing” the person.

You can find those highs with a healthy person who wouldn’t come with those insane lows. You will need to find healing first to attract a healthy person though.

If you stay in this and possibly have kids, your kids will grow up thinking that it’s normal and the generational curse will repeat. You can break it by leaving her.

Best of luck!

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Great thoughts, love it

I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. My husband was bipolar and I once had a friend who was borderline until she devastated me with ghosting me out of nowhere after having an amazing time together for months.

It is her illness and not yours. Support groups might help. It helped me with my husband

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I am going to look for a support group. I just hope she doesn’t take it as a sign that I’m abandoning her or that something is wrong with her. I can see they leading to a lot of rage from her.

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lmao I dated a probably borderline girl for like a month and knew that was more than enough for me

This is one of the most challenging personality disorders. Hope she is in treatment.

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