[PREVIEW] When Love Feels Like a Hostage Situation: BPD in Romantic Relationships

This episode is dropping here first before it goes out to the general feed. If you have been around for a while, you may remember the original BPD episode — it is one of the most listened-to things I have ever put out, and I have wanted to come back to it for a long time. Two more years of client work, my own processing, and graduate coursework later, I felt like the conversation deserved more depth and more honesty than I gave it the first time around.I go into the idealization cycle, splitting, emotional dysregulation, what leaving actually looks like, and a piece that I do not hear talked about directly enough — what to do when someone threatens self-harm to keep you from going. I also share some of my own experience more openly than I have before.