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March 28, 2012

Hoovers: Don’t Let the Crazy Suck You Back In

On the Shrink4Men Forum, there are several gentlemen in the process of ending relationships with abusive wives and girlfriends. Predictably, this has triggered their partners’ abandonment fears and control issues. Oftentimes, when an abusive personality senses they are losing their target/victim or that their target/victim is pulling away, they will make efforts to re-secure their […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healing, High-Conflict, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Stalking and Harassment, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive personality-disordered individuals, abusive women, borderline personality disorder, concern troll, dissociation, domestic violence, emotional blackmail, emotionally abusive women, fear, FOG, guilt, hoover, hoovered, hoovering, love bombing, manipulation, obligation, parasucidal gestures, personality disorders, personality-disordered individual, physical abuse, relationship recycling, trance

October 17, 2011

How to Get Out and Stay Out Once You Realize You Are in a Relationship with Crazy

Here’s another superb article written by CrazyBuster, LiliM: This article was inspired by some of the callers I’ve heard on Dr. Tara’s Shrink4Men Radio show. After listening to the first four episodes, I’ve noticed a theme with some of the men who get sucked into the madness of the high-conflict (HCP)/personality disordered/Crazy partner. Just like […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healing, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Marriage, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Shrink4Men Radio, Stalking and Harassment, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: abused men, abusive women, boundaries, Breaking up, co-parenting, crazy women, crazy-proofing, CrazyBusters, CrazyBusting, dating, divorce, Dr Tara J. Palmatier, exit strategy, female predators, gut instinct, healing, high-conflict divorce, high-conflict people, high-conflict person, high-conflict personality, high-conflict women, hoover, hoovering, LiliM, marriage, parallel parenting, personality disorders, red flags, relationships, vulnerabilities

October 6, 2011

Relationships with High-Conflict People: Assessing Threat and Risk

The following article is written by Mellaril, a long time Shrink4Men community member, whom many of you may recognize from his insightful and helpful comments on the original S4M blog, website and forum. In the article, Mellaril compares an intimate relationship with a high-conflict person to a phenomenon called insider threat, which gives new meaning […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: borderline personality disorder, borderline waif, dating, empathy, HCP, high-conflict, high-conflict individuals, high-conflict people, high-conflict women, hoover, hoovering, impact, insider threat, Mellaril, relationships, relationships with high-conflcit people, remorse, risk, threat, vulnerabilty

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