Personality Disorders

A View from the Outside: How Healthy Loved Ones See your Abusive Relationship with a High-Conflict and/or Personality Disordered Partner

Written by Micksbabe on February 13, 2012 - 45 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Marriage, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships

Here’s the latest from CrazyBuster, Micksbabe . . . If you’re in an abusive relationship with a high-conflict and/or personality disordered individual, you’re probably very aware of what your situation looks like from the inside — constant chaos, blame, fighting, projection, and gaslighting, possibly even shame. Have you ever wondered what your situation looks like [...]

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Relationship Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part Two

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on February 9, 2012 - 45 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Blame, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships

Relationships Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part, One, explored the early stages of an abusive relationship and the WTF moment. To clarify, the WTF moment is when the non-abusive partner first realizes there is something wrong with the abusive partner. As noted in Part One, the second relationship stage, the power struggle phase, [...]

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Relationship Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part One

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 30, 2012 - 56 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Blame, Dating, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships

What is the WTF moment? Oprah and her minions talk about having an “a-ha” moment or a defining moment of wisdom that you use to change your life. It is my belief that men and women in abusive relationships often have the WTF moment when they see behind an abusive partner’s mask for the first [...]

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Shrink4Men Radio Embed: Grieving the Loss of an Abusive Partner with Author Tom Golden

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 16, 2012 - 35 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Healing, Healthy Relationships, Journaling, Marriage, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Rage, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Shrink4Men Radio, Unhealthy Relationships

Thank you very much to Tom Golden, LCSW of www.webhealing.com and author of Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing. He’s a great guest and I hope he will come back for another visit. Thank you to the callers. I admire your courage to call in and share such heartbreaking [...]

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Shrink4Men Radio Monday, January 16, 2012 at 9pm EST: Grieving the Loss of an Abusive Partner with Author Tom Golden

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 16, 2012 - 1 Comment
Categories: Abuse, Divorce, Healing, Personality Disorders, Psychological Abuse, Shrink4Men Radio

Shrink4Men Radio is back tonight, Monday, January 16, 2012 at 9pm EST with my guest, author and MSW, Tom Golden, an expert in male grief and mourning. Tom’s book, Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing is an excellent resource for men who are mourning a loss and for women [...]

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