BPD from the Husband's POV Quotes

“While most people have the ability to cope with contradictions and grey areas, a BP sees only good or evil and has no memory of previously assigning one label to a person while in the clutch of the polar opposite. The BP exists in an all-or-nothing world. As the husband of a BP, you are both her savior and destroyer. But not at the same time. Unlike you,”
― Robert Page, BPD from the Husband's POV: The Roses and Rage of My Wife’s Borderline Personality Disorder

“You’re left spinning in a blur of ups and downs, not sure which extreme you should believe, or perhaps neither. Splitting”
― Robert Page, BPD from the Husband's POV: The Roses and Rage of My Wife’s Borderline Personality Disorder

“It took me years to grapple with the concept that most of my wife’s bizarre actions were beyond her control. She was not able to make any other decision at the time other than the one that was usually the most counterintuitive and destructive. At her worst, the BPD was in a position of absolute dominance over her.”
― Robert Page, BPD from the Husband's POV: The Roses and Rage of My Wife’s Borderline Personality Disorder

“And the horrible insanity of all the lost hours and days spent arguing is that it turns out nothing on the “list” actually mattered. It was all just a redirection of the real problem. But we’ll fight to our last breath over thing 1, forever convinced that our BP wife is actually mad about the thing she says she’s mad about.”
― Robert Page, BPD from the Husband's POV: The Roses and Rage of My Wife’s Borderline Personality Disorder