Article 9: Leaving a Partner with Borderline Personality Disorder (NEW)

Message boards are replete with advice for partners in borderline relationships to go "No Contact" - suddenly end all communication, change your phone number, block the e-mails, run away into the night.

The message boards are also filled with failed attempts to go No Contact... with the "no contact-ors" repeatedly going back to their borderline partner - initiated by the "non-borderline" as often as by the borderline.

So why do non-borderlines fail to accomplish the goal so often?

Read this article from Joseph Carver, PhD., and learn, from this noted therapist, how to separate from a "borderline" relationship . According to Carver, separation involves three stages: The Detachment, Ending the Relationship, and the Follow-up Protection. Also read a practical opinion from an experienced message board member.

...See this feature article