I Married a Man With Borderline Personality Disorder

I would never have imagined myself married to someone with BPD. I've worked with BPD patients in a hospital for years. However, the majority of hospitalized BPD patients are female and physically hurt themselves to deal with the stress...

Hi, I am so happy to have found this site. I am reading women's stories and am sobbing relating to some of the stories and situations. Some of the things that are being said about the way their bpd husbands act could have been taken...

Today is the day I've decided that my boyfriends moods and attitude may not be normal. We literally just talked about three hours ago and he confessed to not feeling like himself. This after our fight on our anniversary when he accused...

With the same man 21 years - married 16 years. One son. Gone through everything everyone has written about here. I am now broken down, ill in spirit and body from his venom. I feel sorry for him but am finally coming around to...

Its been 2 years since i left my husband - more accurately ran for my life...But a particular thing still haunts me and I am still not sure if he pretended to play Jakylle and Hyde to throw me off and keep me feeling 'on alert' all the...

After being married 27 years, rearing two beautiful emotionally healthy daughters despite their fathers strange behavior. We had and at times still have great times together, every day is not a bad day. Being married to and surviving...

like a small child clinging to a security blanket. He wants it with him always....can't stand to be apart, yet he fails to notice how tattered and torn it's getting. How it's in desperate need of mending. All he knows is that having it...

How long should we stay? It's like leaving someone you know is sick, but it's hard because you feel like you're abandoning him. He doesn't know he has this disorder, he thinks everyone around him is a dumbass and it's everyone but him...

Well, Our life has been like a roller-coaster headed at fast speed toward a brick wall but before it hits, the roller-coaster drops down.

Our marriage counselor once told me, during a trial separation, that I was only his security blanket, that he did not love me and our three children, that when he is done with me, he would throw me like an old rag. I did not listen, I...

I am too hurt and angered to write anything positive today. I feel better knowing that I found a place where I can vent and support, but bad because my situation will never change. I feel like I step into a Hitchcock movie every morning...

I say I'm too tired for sex. He hears that I don't want him sexually; I'm not attracted to him.

I say, please don't smoke while the kids are in the car. He hears me calling him a "piece of shit parent".

I say, your words & behaviors...

I only recently decided to "figure out what is wrong with me".

One thing that many people dont realize about BPD folks, is that we just don't realize how crazy we are. We have lived with our thoughts and mood swings for much of our...

Feeling especially down and hopeless after most recent blow up.....wondering if there are any Happy stories out there?

Living with and loving who suffers from borderline personality disorder is the most challenging relationship that I have ever experienced.When my Love has a "good day" or moments where he is not emotionally dysregulated, life and love...

I have spent so many years hurting, doubting, questioning, fearing, introspecting, and trying to make sense of my boyfriend and our relationship. The more I read about BPD, specifically "high-functioning, invisible" BP's, the more...

Its been 2 1/2 months and my bpd ex boyfriend decided to end things because he felt we needed to be cordial. I had expressed my feelings to him and stated that if he was not going to settle down with me that he should let me move on...

I've been married 2 years. The 18 months courtship and first year of marriage were absolutely wonderful. My husband was everything a woman could dream - tall, dark, handsome, kind,and intelligent. My friends and family loved him alike...

I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2009, I always said that it's the people who lives with a person suffering from this mood disorder who suffers the most. It takes a different kind, a person with strength, courage...

I'm very proud of myself in the way I have learned to speak to my BPD husband of little over a year. Yesterday during one of his rage fits over nothing (it wasn't nothing to him of course) he went from 0 to 100 and I was the enemy. Of...