What Are The Causes of Borderline Personality Splitting?
Are you having a relationship where one of you has BPD and trying to avoid a Borderline Personality Splitting? BPD relationships are having a high rate of divorce because of the many challenges and problems this personality disorder brings in relationships or marriages. Probably the biggest issue a borderline personality sufferer has in any relationship is the fear of abandonment, which in many cases also comprises a fear of punishment, deprecation, or critique from significant other people. These fears are coming from childhood or adolescence when the sufferer had to go through painful and invalidating experiences from his/her significant people. During childhood these significant others were represented by his/her parents or caregivers while during the teenager years it can also include friends and romantic partners. The traumatizing early life encounters were not forgotten, but “stored” in the subconscious waiting for a resolution. Also they become relationship models from the BPD’s
