Wouldn’t It Be Great if High-Conflict People and Abusive Personality Disordered Individuals Came with Warning Labels?
A gentleman sent a link to the cartoon below and it got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if high-conflict people (HCPs) and abusive personality disordered individuals (PDIs) came with warning labels? What kinds of warning label symptoms and side effects should your abusive, high-conflict and/or personality disordered wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend or ex had [...]
A View from the Outside: How Healthy Loved Ones See your Abusive Relationship with a High-Conflict and/or Personality Disordered Partner
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 [...]
Introduction to CrazyBusting and the CrazyBusters: What I Wish I Knew Before Marrying a Man with a Crazy Ex-Wife
The following article is by “Micksbabe,” whose name you may recognize from comments here and the Shrink4Men Facebook page. Micksbabe started a private online group a few years ago for women married to men whose previous relationship was with Crazy — the high-conflict, abusive personality disordered, golden uterus, BPD/NPD, professional victim, waif, controlling, abusive, narcissistic, [...]
To the Victim Go the Spoils: False Allegations, Men as Default Scapegoats and Why Some Women Get Away with Murder
Look at that poor woman crying! I wonder what he did to her? Pretend the image on the left is a Thematic Apperception Test card and make up a story about it. Is the woman crying because she discovered her boyfriend had been cheating on her, dumped her and emptied their joint account to go [...]
Urgent Group Intervention Needed: Should this Man Marry His Abusive and Controlling Fiancée Next Week?
Dear Dr Tara J. Palmatier, I have recently come across your articles on Shrink4Men and have been reading them — especially those related to controlling and abusive women — and am hoping you can answer a simple yes or no question for me: Am I involved with a controlling and/or abusive woman? I hate to [...]





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