Extreme highs and lows are the trademarks of dating someone with a borderline personality disorder. Although they may shower you with attention and gifts in the early days, a partner with BPD will frequently abruptly detach from you, leaving you questioning what went so wrong.
10 Signs You’re Dating Someone with a Borderline Personality Disorder
Partners with borderline personality disorder are often characteristically manipulative. They crave close love connections, but their unstable behavior often isolates them from their partners. Someone with BPD knows how to get into your thoughts and feelings to create strong emotional bonds between you in the beginning. A master-manipulator will learn your insecurities to use them against you. A partner with BPD can effortlessly deny all blame for their destructive behavior by reversing the responsibility onto you by highlighting your flaws.
#1. Impulsive and self-destructive behaviors including alcohol and substance abuse and reckless driving.
#2. A dating history of unstable relationships that changed from intense love to extreme hate.
#3. Inappropriate or excessive emotional reactions.
#4. Intense mood swings that can last anywhere between a few hours to several days.
#5. An unstable or dysfunctional self-image.
#6. Feelings of boredom, emptiness, and isolation with intense fear or abandonment.
#7. Lack of empathy for others.
#8. Intense anxiety and depression.
#9. Difficulty trusting others.
#10. Feelings of dissociation; seeing oneself from outside one’s body.
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