What Is BPD?
8. Unstable Relationships
People with BPD can swing quickly between idealizing someone and viewing them as cruel and unreasonable. Because of these rapid changes, relationships tend to be short and intense. Falling in love happens quickly, but so does disillusionment. You put someone on a pedestal just to knock him or her off again moments later.
Even your relationships with family and friends are either perfect or horrible, always at the extremes and never in the middle. Your emotional instability, never knowing what to expect from you, causes those you around you to retreat and makes long-term relationships impossible to maintain.
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