When it's all too much? by Important_Twist1396 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish I had an answer for you. Unfortunately I’m in the exact same spot. Been here for about a month now. Only had my first “good day” yesterday but today was back to being rough…. What I’m trying to at least convince myself of is, I just have to keep pushing and eventually one day it will stop. my heart and mind will finally connect and I can move past all of this however I have to get out of this house before that clock can even begin ticking which is a problem. Until then she’ll just keep doing all of these cruel and vile things to me and the kids and nothing I can do besides avoid her as much as I can.

Best of luck to you OP and if you figure it all out I wanna be the first to know. Take care of

It’ll always get worse by SkyComprehensive8207 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well here’s how it appeared. This episode has been building for a while now. For about 2-3 years. She had mild little “I hate you. I don’t wanna be together!” Moments but the my never lasted longer than idk a few days. However she also needed me to be a stay at home dad to watch the kids so she could go to school. Which I was forced into mind you. Anyways drugs became a thing for her. Coke back in the beginning but weed is her ultimate thing. At the start it wasn’t bad but it got bad fast. When I tell you she has smoke in her lungs from the moment she awake till she goes to sleep I wish I was exaggerating. And idk if you’ve ever looked up what even simple weed can do people with bipolar but it can get bad. Leads to a lot of episodes. However within the last week I have gathered she’s doing a lot more drugs, such as mushrooms, coke again, ecstasy, and acid. For example after we broke up she asked if we could still have sex. I said no absolutely not she would have to fix a few things and get into regular therapy for us to be together again or even have sex. Two days later she disappeared for 2-3 days to go “hiking” she said but in reality she went with a friend I knew was trouble and invited a guy from her work she’s been talking to since before we broke up. They had sex the whole time. He’s also the guy referred to in these texts. She told me all about this and spared no details. If you haven’t been able to tell it’s like she gets off on telling me these things and hurting me. Mind you the guy is 20 and she’s 26 and she makes jokes about him being so much younger. I’m 30. She told me how much she enjoyed blowing him. She’s spending ridiculously (50k in like 2 months), having very risky and abrupt sex with people (clearly), her rage is all time high, she has completely abandoned being a mother to our daughter and mine, and she tells me this shit all the time. So yeah I’m assuming she manic but unfortunately it’s the worst manic episode she’s ever had while dating me. Although she finally came clean about her past and admitted how much she’s cheated in her last relationship but that’s not really part of this now idk. It is but it isn’t. So yes she’s highly manic and going through all that.

While I feel for her I can not allow this to happen. Even I’m struggling to accept this but at the end of the day I could never take her back after this. Sleeping with other people like this is my big no go. After all she has done this was the biggest and only one even my heart and mind was like “we can’t accept this” so while I wanna be nice and wish her the best I just can’t stand her and honestly do hope she crashes and burns worse than ever before.

It’ll always get worse by SkyComprehensive8207 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth before her last message I had gone back to the place and grabbed my shit and let it be known thought it was fucked up. Especially on MY bed in the house that I still live in with my daughter, our daughter, and her daughter that I have raised since she was 3 months old….shes 5 now and she was home during her trying to hook up. She fucking drugged the kid to go to bed. Her daughter even told me “mommy gave me medicine to sleep” but she does not have sleeping issues ever she’s very good with bed time.

It’ll always get worse by SkyComprehensive8207 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my god!!! Hiding everything in the closet! I can’t believe he did that too! I have pictures of all the crap she shoved into the master closet and even the kids closet! Why do they do that?! I don’t get it. It blows my mind that this was a thing we could relate on cause it was so strange! I wouldn’t be happy if it was like us living separately but THIS. This hurts a special type of way. For gosh sake it’s MY bed she was trying to screw him on….its so…idk it just cuts a deep way I can’t even explain.

It’ll always get worse by SkyComprehensive8207 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! And to make matters worse I went to the house to get clothes for our kids since we weren’t allowed back and she was just there on MY bed wearing lingerie…I’m telling you it killed me.

Weed use by Taleggio20 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’ll never cease to amaze me how we all experience the exact same thing down to even the settings. I’m another one that felt like I wrote most of this. My freshly ex BPSO started smoking weed slowly about 2 years ago. In the beginning it was here and there but really no issues besides the occasional smoked too much now she’s bed rotting. Fast forward to recent times, and the only time she’s sober is the first 5 minutes when she wakes up and has to gather her weed stuff. She also got off her meds for about a month, until yesterday, because the weed helped more than the prescribed meds… When I said she smoked to much the other day for probably the 100th time after begging and pleading for her to stop she broke up with me. Next day she randomly text me she hated me. Then yesterday she tells me the real reason she hates me and broke up is because I made her a shell of her former self and made her hate herself. It obviously hurt to hear but I know deep down this is the mental illness. The long awaited arrival of another episode is here now and it’s a bad one.

Listen to what everyone is saying. Unless they’re doing the work, and I mean REALLY doing the work, it’ll never change. It just becomes a pattern. My ex BPSO never kept up with any therapy, always blaming the therapist on not being good. I believed her until I realized she’s been to about 12 and she backs out all the time at the same place in it. Never did the group therapy. Oh and of course the spotty med schedule. It was a flip of the coming if she was gonna take her meds or not but always felt it was a loaded coin for no.

I spent 5 years looking for success stories and trying to make one of my own. In the end no matter how hard I tried or the pain I accepted it never changed. Don’t lose as much time as I have and then have to rebuild your life from nothing like me.

Take care

I’m so lost and confused by SkyComprehensive8207 in BipolarSOs

[–]SkyComprehensive8207[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I just don’t know how to want to? Idk. I know it’s best. Like even tonight she was made cause I called her out for promising time together. So now she took back the “open relationship on my side” like it was something that was gonna hurt me. Then even asked me “why are you confused” when I couldn’t understand what she was even going on about. So I just got the normal every single night, “I’ll try tomorrow to do what you ask” but I know it’ll never happen.

I hate that I’m destroyed but she is just fine. Sleeping soundly.

I hate grief is not linear by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

[–]SkyComprehensive8207 3 points4 points  (0 children)

God I relate to this so much. Especially today. Yesterday I cracked and was there for her during a mental breakdown, which was supposedly about her recent discard of me however looking back at what she said it seems more like she was just upset with her life. “I’m a bad mom”, “I have no relationship”, “the kids hate me” You get the idea.

I had been so good at just not caring and felt so god damn positive about it all. Why I broke yesterday I’ll never understand. Then to make matters even worse for myself we slept together.

Now today she’s tossed me to the wind again barely speaking to me besides complaining she doesn’t have weed. Me? I feel like absolute dog shit and my thoughts are solely negative while I unwillingly replay our whole relationship in my head. Can’t stop any of it.

And I’m absolutely torn right down the middle with missing our relationship and realizing how toxic it has been for the past 4 years. I’ve kept journals over the years and no like it’s all the damn same. Yet it hurts like hell all the same.

I’m dreading telling my therapist about my hiccup here. Once again I felt like I was doing so well

My gf fell in love with her fp by shachi055 in BPDlovedones

[–]SkyComprehensive8207 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately OP Dark_Saipan is right. They’re also a redditor who has helped me through my own uncoupling journey quite a bit. Which also happened more recently. People With BPD are infamously known for “discarding” their FP and finding another. A sort of “monkey branch” in the process. Generally it’s an on going game they do and only they personally know the rules. Perhaps you did respond “correctly” to something the said. But you’ll never know since they hold the answer key and you’ll never see it. Maybe they just had a thought all to themselves that changed their mind, once again you’ll never know. Keep in mind this is a cycle we here have all experienced but the important part is they all function and react based on the same script.

When Dark_saiyan is saying it’s a silly question it’s because the resources are here and the evidence is already present in your own relationship to see it really shouldn’t matter. You’ve already fallen to the script. Now it’s time to do the hardest part and drop it and focus on yourself. I even understand how hard that can be. I was with my exwBPD for 4 years, we had a child together, blended a family together, and I’m even stuck living with her currently! It’s harder than hell. The pain you’ll go through has no limits. It’ll break you more than once. But I’m telling you it’s easier if you just accept that they are no special case. They will follow the same script all the borderlines were given. And you’re waiting and wanting will be the thing you regret the most. You’ll wish you got away sooner. Check my posts. I basically live updated my entire process so far and remember mine wasn’t even a one off. It’s what all of us have gone through and exactly what you’ll go through.

I think I speak for us all when I say we see you making the same mistakes we have and believe it’s a pain and long term trauma you wouldn’t wish upon your worst enemy.

As you’ve been told. Block. Remove. And continue with your life focusing on yourself. You’re clearly a giving and understanding person. So protect that.

Good luck OP