aprilshowers
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The reason behind these actions are:
There is something deep within us, that won't allow us to believe we are worthy of love or that we are 'anything' at all, since most of our life, we were the 'adult' for our parent or parents.
When you need to be there for THEM, to make THEM happy, to make everything ok for THEM. Us? Well ... I had to put myself last, if I disagreed with my mom, or did or said, anything to hurt her or let her down ... it was as if somebody stabbed me in the heart .. I just COULDN'T.
I was the 'chosen child' and she told everybody that I was SUCH a good daughter, that I was ALWAYS there for her, and that all her other daughters (I have 3 sisters) weren't there for her, and have hurt her .. yet "I" was the loyal one and always there to defend her, and stand by her.
As an adult, it was very very hard to take care of myself emotionally, to put myself first. I had many devastating relationships, that left me feeling even MORE alone and unworthy.
Yes, it's true .. a Borderline can be very hard to love. That's because we require so MUCH love and attention. And that's because we're SO empty.
We don't trust ... if we do, it's one or two people at most, and even have a hard time trusting them.
It's sad actually ... it truly is! I can tell you from my OWN heart, even though it's so very hard to understand us and to keep loving us, we're more broken than you can understand ... in that I mean, broken hearted, our spirit is broken, and we feel so very empty.
There is something deep within us, that won't allow us to believe we are worthy of love or that we are 'anything' at all, since most of our life, we were the 'adult' for our parent or parents.
When you need to be there for THEM, to make THEM happy, to make everything ok for THEM. Us? Well ... I had to put myself last, if I disagreed with my mom, or did or said, anything to hurt her or let her down ... it was as if somebody stabbed me in the heart .. I just COULDN'T.
I was the 'chosen child' and she told everybody that I was SUCH a good daughter, that I was ALWAYS there for her, and that all her other daughters (I have 3 sisters) weren't there for her, and have hurt her .. yet "I" was the loyal one and always there to defend her, and stand by her.
As an adult, it was very very hard to take care of myself emotionally, to put myself first. I had many devastating relationships, that left me feeling even MORE alone and unworthy.
Yes, it's true .. a Borderline can be very hard to love. That's because we require so MUCH love and attention. And that's because we're SO empty.
We don't trust ... if we do, it's one or two people at most, and even have a hard time trusting them.
It's sad actually ... it truly is! I can tell you from my OWN heart, even though it's so very hard to understand us and to keep loving us, we're more broken than you can understand ... in that I mean, broken hearted, our spirit is broken, and we feel so very empty.