Part 1 (of 3)
BPD.
As related to the relationship I just got out of (only three months long from first date to live in to break up) - first hand experience can be an honest teacher rivalling even the second hand information of books by professors.
She: History
Was sexually abused by two men at the age of 4 - 6 repeatedly forced to preform oral and manual sex while she was 'cared' for as a child while both her parents worked. Received a slap in the face when she brought it up to her mother for being a dirty little liar. Has a very negative view of her father who she disparaged saying he had extramarital relationships. Descibed her mother as a veritable supermom who worked full time and did all the cooking, clleaning and housework - and kept a spic'n'span home. Became a competitive downhill skier in her middle teens but shattered her knee at about age 16 which ended her athletic career. The pain lead her to several years of opiate pain killers which gave her a substance addiction. She educated herself as a registered nurse and gained her certification/licence.
Married at age 30 to a guy she smoked hash with for years where his activity in life was playing video games and smoking hasch full time. Said the day of her wedding she was high and that 'it wasn't a real wedding or marriage'. Moved abroad with her husband to Norway where he got a job laying floors and she worked as a nurse at the ER. At three years of marriage she got breast implants to a c-cup against her husbands wishes and shortly there after they moved apart and the divorce soon followed as a formality.
Soon after she began using harder drugs and even injecting amphetamine intravenously. In one of her amphetamine highs she explains she no longer wanted to live and when she couldn't get the syringe into the vein she began hacking at her anterior left arm just below the elbow, dropped the syringe several times, and continued hacking into her arm till she found the vein.
A sepsis occured and her left arm swelled up to twice its normal size accompanied by excruciating pain. After three days she went to the ER and the doctor put her on i.v. antibiotics and managed to save her arm. He also informed her he must by law inform the medical board of her intravenous amphetamine addiction.
After leaving the hospital she was given a doctors certificate of illness during her recovery from the sepsis treatment. After a few weeks the medical board began to send her letters about her suspension and her need for rehab before she could again work as an R.N.
She fled to Thailand where her Scandavian parents own a restaurant instead of going to rehab in order to get re-certified. After about three months she returned to Norway and opened all her mail to find out her certification had been revoked indefinitely for failing to respond to any of their offers for drug rehab and recertification.
She was 33 with a flourid amphetamine addiction and no way to support herself. In her own words she broke all contact with her parents and family and became homeless for two years. In response to where she got money for food and clothes she states she lived with one boyfriend after another who were supplying her substance abuse. Unclear if she stopped i.v. use when she nearly lost her arm to bloodpoisoning.
After two tears living 'on the street' she contacted social services who put her in basic housing with a food allowance. During this time, about one year, she worked 'black' as a day labourer doing csual hourly work.
It was quite early this 'welfare' year she became pregnant with a refugee from Serbia about 15 years older than herself. During the last months of her pregnacy she became aware the state was considering taking her child from her after it was born because of her drug abuse and chaotic lifestyle.
Therefore when the child, her daughter, was only three weeks old she bought a carriage and a train ticket back to her parents in Stockholm, who she had not had any contact with for three tears. I believe she did not even inform her parents she was coming or that she had her newborn daughter with her.
She lived at her parents for four months untill she found a little rental apartment in a small town about 45 minutes drive out of Stockholm.
The next three and a half years she took care of her daughter and did not work. She recycled the father of the child from Serbia by sponsoring him to come to live in the same small town (he had been refused asylum in Norway and had been sent back to Serbia).
After three and half years on maternal welfare, with the first two consisting of weekly child services 'supervision' of her mothering skills, at the age of 39 she got a make work placement through state manpower to work as a nurse at a family medical clinic (she still had her medical certification in Sweden).
Nine months later she (40) met me (54) working on a four week placement as a family physician at the clinic where she worked.
I asked her out after a conversation we had about my desire to have another child (I have three daughters 18 - 21) from an earlier relationship. She seemed attractive and sincerely interested in talking to me. On the last day of my placement we went out for a nice fish dinner by the water. She said 'I don't drink'. I understood this to mean she had battled alcohol and won. I respected that. I was driving and in Sweden there is zero tolerance for driving and alcohol (direct loss of driving licence) so a dinner sans alcohol was no problem from my side.
The dinner went really well. She told me all about herself and I did likewise. We drank two bottles of alcohol free wine and carried on like we felt intoxocated anyway. Upon returning home (her daughter was overnighting at a friend-couple's house) she invited me in first apologising that it was a mess. She showed me her apartment and said 'I'm not only into traditional relationships'. I took that to mean she could consider a long distance relationship since during the evening I told her I had applied to several jobs in Norway and hoped to soon work there. In retrospect I believe she meant something else, something I would understand only 12 weeks later when the relationship ended and I understood more about BPD.
To end the first dare, being a gentleman not wanting to be too forward, I asked permission to kiss her goodnight to which she obliged a tender kiss on the lips. I was in seventh heaven. I even half joked after the kiss that I 'felt like I don't want to go'. Her effect was so positively strong (seductive) upon me after only a few hours of her company and attentions.
Next day at noon from my apartment 50 miles away, I text messaged her an offer to come with her daughter for dinner at my place and she could overnight in my livingroom. She texted back that she was busy with entertaining her parents that day and then helping her neighbours (who had babysat her daughter when we went out the night before) to build a stone patio. I thought, why not invite me to partake in one of both of these activities but thought maybe she was not really interested in seeing me again. I thought to myself, slow down don't scare her away - you like her - be patient. I decided to wait till I was in away in Germany visiting a freind and his wife during the following week and to send her a postcard from there saying thank you for the dinner and that I would reurn to Sweden i 2½ weeks and call her then.
One week before returning form Germany she text messaged that she would like me to come in two days to help her fix her backyard fence which after 17 years had fallen in great disrepair. She needed it for her huge male Rotweiller/Pitbull who I had met the evening we came back after dinner. I texted that on the post card I had expressed my arrival back to be one week later. She texted back a very weak 'oh yeah, see ya later'.
Upon returning to Sweden I contacted her to ask if we could meet for coffee. She said sure so I drove to her place on a Sunday and ended up meeting her D4 and staying for dinner. I offered to come and help her fix her fence, I figured 5 -6 days work with carpentry and painting. She said sure. Becuase of the 50 mile distance between our homes I asked if I could overnight (thinking the couch or equivalent) while building the fence. She said no problem. We agreed she would pay for the building material costs and I would supply the labour for free. For me this would give me an opportunity to get to know her and to be close to her. I was already getting hooked.
Five days later I bought the necessary wood, nails and paint, loaded up my tools and drove to her rental rowhouse. She was away visiting her parents in Stockholm with her daughter but left clean sheets and pillow case for her bed. It didn't feel right so I found a mattress in the house and bedded down in the livingroom. The next day I began renovation on the fence and about 59 other repairs in her home (replaced a sink, rehinded kitchen cabinents, installed the plumbing for her washer, put up shower rod and curtains, painted the guest room, etc). She arrived home the following day. We continued our intensive talks after her daughter had fallen alseep. We made out a little and then I retired to my mattress on the floor.
The following evening shortly after she confided 1. She had hepatitis c from her i.v. drug use, and 2. she had been sexually abused as a child, we ended up in bed and had protected sex. That night and the following one I slept on the floor mattress out if consideration for her daughter who I had only known a few days.
The fifth evening she brought her daughter after wakening into her double bed with me in it. I thought, well okay, looks like we're really playing house now. I was falling in love so I didn't mind.
After one week she said she and her daughter were not like other people. That her daughter was very sensitive and that everything for herself was black or white.
BPD.
As related to the relationship I just got out of (only three months long from first date to live in to break up) - first hand experience can be an honest teacher rivalling even the second hand information of books by professors.
She: History
Was sexually abused by two men at the age of 4 - 6 repeatedly forced to preform oral and manual sex while she was 'cared' for as a child while both her parents worked. Received a slap in the face when she brought it up to her mother for being a dirty little liar. Has a very negative view of her father who she disparaged saying he had extramarital relationships. Descibed her mother as a veritable supermom who worked full time and did all the cooking, clleaning and housework - and kept a spic'n'span home. Became a competitive downhill skier in her middle teens but shattered her knee at about age 16 which ended her athletic career. The pain lead her to several years of opiate pain killers which gave her a substance addiction. She educated herself as a registered nurse and gained her certification/licence.
Married at age 30 to a guy she smoked hash with for years where his activity in life was playing video games and smoking hasch full time. Said the day of her wedding she was high and that 'it wasn't a real wedding or marriage'. Moved abroad with her husband to Norway where he got a job laying floors and she worked as a nurse at the ER. At three years of marriage she got breast implants to a c-cup against her husbands wishes and shortly there after they moved apart and the divorce soon followed as a formality.
Soon after she began using harder drugs and even injecting amphetamine intravenously. In one of her amphetamine highs she explains she no longer wanted to live and when she couldn't get the syringe into the vein she began hacking at her anterior left arm just below the elbow, dropped the syringe several times, and continued hacking into her arm till she found the vein.
A sepsis occured and her left arm swelled up to twice its normal size accompanied by excruciating pain. After three days she went to the ER and the doctor put her on i.v. antibiotics and managed to save her arm. He also informed her he must by law inform the medical board of her intravenous amphetamine addiction.
After leaving the hospital she was given a doctors certificate of illness during her recovery from the sepsis treatment. After a few weeks the medical board began to send her letters about her suspension and her need for rehab before she could again work as an R.N.
She fled to Thailand where her Scandavian parents own a restaurant instead of going to rehab in order to get re-certified. After about three months she returned to Norway and opened all her mail to find out her certification had been revoked indefinitely for failing to respond to any of their offers for drug rehab and recertification.
She was 33 with a flourid amphetamine addiction and no way to support herself. In her own words she broke all contact with her parents and family and became homeless for two years. In response to where she got money for food and clothes she states she lived with one boyfriend after another who were supplying her substance abuse. Unclear if she stopped i.v. use when she nearly lost her arm to bloodpoisoning.
After two tears living 'on the street' she contacted social services who put her in basic housing with a food allowance. During this time, about one year, she worked 'black' as a day labourer doing csual hourly work.
It was quite early this 'welfare' year she became pregnant with a refugee from Serbia about 15 years older than herself. During the last months of her pregnacy she became aware the state was considering taking her child from her after it was born because of her drug abuse and chaotic lifestyle.
Therefore when the child, her daughter, was only three weeks old she bought a carriage and a train ticket back to her parents in Stockholm, who she had not had any contact with for three tears. I believe she did not even inform her parents she was coming or that she had her newborn daughter with her.
She lived at her parents for four months untill she found a little rental apartment in a small town about 45 minutes drive out of Stockholm.
The next three and a half years she took care of her daughter and did not work. She recycled the father of the child from Serbia by sponsoring him to come to live in the same small town (he had been refused asylum in Norway and had been sent back to Serbia).
After three and half years on maternal welfare, with the first two consisting of weekly child services 'supervision' of her mothering skills, at the age of 39 she got a make work placement through state manpower to work as a nurse at a family medical clinic (she still had her medical certification in Sweden).
Nine months later she (40) met me (54) working on a four week placement as a family physician at the clinic where she worked.
I asked her out after a conversation we had about my desire to have another child (I have three daughters 18 - 21) from an earlier relationship. She seemed attractive and sincerely interested in talking to me. On the last day of my placement we went out for a nice fish dinner by the water. She said 'I don't drink'. I understood this to mean she had battled alcohol and won. I respected that. I was driving and in Sweden there is zero tolerance for driving and alcohol (direct loss of driving licence) so a dinner sans alcohol was no problem from my side.
The dinner went really well. She told me all about herself and I did likewise. We drank two bottles of alcohol free wine and carried on like we felt intoxocated anyway. Upon returning home (her daughter was overnighting at a friend-couple's house) she invited me in first apologising that it was a mess. She showed me her apartment and said 'I'm not only into traditional relationships'. I took that to mean she could consider a long distance relationship since during the evening I told her I had applied to several jobs in Norway and hoped to soon work there. In retrospect I believe she meant something else, something I would understand only 12 weeks later when the relationship ended and I understood more about BPD.
To end the first dare, being a gentleman not wanting to be too forward, I asked permission to kiss her goodnight to which she obliged a tender kiss on the lips. I was in seventh heaven. I even half joked after the kiss that I 'felt like I don't want to go'. Her effect was so positively strong (seductive) upon me after only a few hours of her company and attentions.
Next day at noon from my apartment 50 miles away, I text messaged her an offer to come with her daughter for dinner at my place and she could overnight in my livingroom. She texted back that she was busy with entertaining her parents that day and then helping her neighbours (who had babysat her daughter when we went out the night before) to build a stone patio. I thought, why not invite me to partake in one of both of these activities but thought maybe she was not really interested in seeing me again. I thought to myself, slow down don't scare her away - you like her - be patient. I decided to wait till I was in away in Germany visiting a freind and his wife during the following week and to send her a postcard from there saying thank you for the dinner and that I would reurn to Sweden i 2½ weeks and call her then.
One week before returning form Germany she text messaged that she would like me to come in two days to help her fix her backyard fence which after 17 years had fallen in great disrepair. She needed it for her huge male Rotweiller/Pitbull who I had met the evening we came back after dinner. I texted that on the post card I had expressed my arrival back to be one week later. She texted back a very weak 'oh yeah, see ya later'.
Upon returning to Sweden I contacted her to ask if we could meet for coffee. She said sure so I drove to her place on a Sunday and ended up meeting her D4 and staying for dinner. I offered to come and help her fix her fence, I figured 5 -6 days work with carpentry and painting. She said sure. Becuase of the 50 mile distance between our homes I asked if I could overnight (thinking the couch or equivalent) while building the fence. She said no problem. We agreed she would pay for the building material costs and I would supply the labour for free. For me this would give me an opportunity to get to know her and to be close to her. I was already getting hooked.
Five days later I bought the necessary wood, nails and paint, loaded up my tools and drove to her rental rowhouse. She was away visiting her parents in Stockholm with her daughter but left clean sheets and pillow case for her bed. It didn't feel right so I found a mattress in the house and bedded down in the livingroom. The next day I began renovation on the fence and about 59 other repairs in her home (replaced a sink, rehinded kitchen cabinents, installed the plumbing for her washer, put up shower rod and curtains, painted the guest room, etc). She arrived home the following day. We continued our intensive talks after her daughter had fallen alseep. We made out a little and then I retired to my mattress on the floor.
The following evening shortly after she confided 1. She had hepatitis c from her i.v. drug use, and 2. she had been sexually abused as a child, we ended up in bed and had protected sex. That night and the following one I slept on the floor mattress out if consideration for her daughter who I had only known a few days.
The fifth evening she brought her daughter after wakening into her double bed with me in it. I thought, well okay, looks like we're really playing house now. I was falling in love so I didn't mind.
After one week she said she and her daughter were not like other people. That her daughter was very sensitive and that everything for herself was black or white.