Article 4: Take the First Step Toward Improving Your Relationship [NEW]
Before things can get better, you have to try to stop letting them get worse. Someone has to lead. This generally means learning how to interrupt your own negative responses to the situation, and learning how to inhibit your urges to do things that you later realize are not helping an already difficult situation. This article discusses how to stop making it worse today.
Nothing changes without change - and the first change starts with us. When we say we need to change ourselves, we mean that we need to make ourselves healthy (a BPD relationship can break us down). We need to learn to communicate in a validating way to a person with the disorder, and at the same time be able to set limits and define our own boundaries and constructively enforce them.
This feature includes a very popular 3 minute video discussing concepts developed by Alan Fruzzetti PhD, and provides practical insight from members who's whose relationships have 'turned around". It can be done.
Take the First Step Toward Improving Your Relationship [NEW]
