the BP/NP can never be normal. It will always be a relationship in which you are dealing with a mentally ill person. The questions then become these: Do you want to continue to take care of this person? How can you take care of someone without continuing to be the Caretaker you have been? Are there more effective ways to deal with the BP/NP than what you have been doing? What changes in yourself could you make to have a better life either with the BP/NP or without him or her. How can you watch the BP/NP behave as he or she does and no longer have it send you through the stratosphere? How can
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