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

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on March 28, 2012 - 58 Comments
Categories: 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

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 [...]

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Judge Diane E. Gibbons Orders ThePsychoExWife.com Shut Down: What Would You Do?

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on August 11, 2011 - 74 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse

ThePsychoExWife.com (PEW), like Shrink4Men, is another resource for people trying to cope with high-conflict and/or abusive personality disordered exes and partners. At least, it used to be. In early June 2011, family court Judge Diane E. Gibbons of Bucks County, Pennsylvania ordered the owner of PEW to shut the site down. The owner of the [...]

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Family Court Minefields: Dirty Tricks Used by High-Conflict People in Custody Disputes and Parallel Parenting, Part 1

Written by Natalie Malonis on April 26, 2011 - 9 Comments
Categories: Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Divorce, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Marriage, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Natalie Malonis, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Unhealthy Relationships

This is the first part of a series of articles dealing with common dirty tricks that high-conflict people (HCP) and abusive personality disordered individuals (APDI) commonly play in family court. In Part 1, we will take look at the ways in which these women abuse OurFamilyWizard as a way of drawing you into further conflict [...]

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Why High-Conflict and Abusive Personality Disordered Women Drag Out the Divorce Process

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on April 25, 2011 - 41 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Divorce, Financial Abuse, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Unhealthy Relationships

Many abused men who have made the difficult decision to divorce a high-conflict, abusive and/or abusive personality-disordered wife are rarely able to make a quick and easy escape. In fact, I commonly advise clients who are about to begin the divorce process to prepare for false allegations of abuse, financial chicanery (e.g., hiding funds, identity [...]

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Shrink4Men Comment of the Week: How to Minimize Contact with your Abusive Ex-Wife When You Are Co-Parents

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on April 22, 2011 - 10 Comments
Categories: Custody, Divorce, High-Conflict, Legal, Unhealthy Relationships

Hi Everyone, Every now and again, I review old Shrink4Men articles and comment threads and am always impressed by how articulate, wise and helpful the Shrink4Men community is. Many of these comments contain such important insights that they’re able to stand on their own. In an effort to feature this information and keep it fresh, I’ve [...]

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