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I spent many years living with a NPD. We divorced last year. The divorce process is a story for another time. Right now I am in a custody battle with her. She systematically built a case against me with carefully worded emails and accusations that I am a bad parent.

My ex is an unbelievably horrible person. I didn't know people like that existed. I was abused and didn't even know it. She used gaslighting ...

Just like everyone else that is on this forum, gambling has been running my life. Money has no value to me anymore, and I gamble it away constantly. I don't realize how much I just lost until after it's gone, and obviously when I am ahead, I keep trying to get even farther ahead. I have two young daughters (both under 2) that rely on me. Family means the world to me, but even when ...

Ok folks, I admit I am struggling Big Time. As most of you know here ad nauseum, I dumped my HPD last July 2010. I then chased her from Sept - Jan 2011all to no avail. In Jan she wants to be friends. I agreed. 4 months go by and no word from her. In April I sent her a text exchange where a lot of you people felt I was "mean" and not "nice". ...

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Okay, so this might sound crazy, but I'm starting to think that I haven't always been the host. I've been working on a timeline of my life, and when I got to a certain point it was like, yeah this is the point I can really start to remember. It's like, they feel like my memories. Everything before that feels different. Very fragmented, almost like it's ...

Hi all,

I was on this forum a year and more ago. Occasionally I still looked in since, but this weekend I watched the movie 'The Shipping News' with Kevin Spacey, and Cate Blanchett as his clearly HPD wife. While the film is OK (the book is much better) as I watched it I realised just how much life has improved for me.

Two years out of my relationship, and over a year of proper ...

I was in a relationship with my best friend for nearly 4 years. It was a rocky one, mostly because I think he tends to sabotage himself...but he finally managed to push me away. We still talk from time to time and he has asked me to stay with him but the idea of leaving has become more and more tempting with each passing day...

I've been talking to a guy for about a week ...

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So right now there's a going away party upstairs at my job with free food. I almost went up there, but am now sitting alone downstairs by my computer, because I don't feel comfortable up there with all my coworkers. My sister works with me now and if she was here today I could let myself go, but since I don't really talk to any of them anyway it feels too weird. I try to ...