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by chickadee » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:27 am
I don't know the answer to your question, but I wanted to throw another possibility into the ring. Perhaps it's to mimic the parent-child relationship. The little I've read about HPD makes it sound like there is usually a disconnect or lack of a strong bond with her parent(s).
Just a thought...
nosce te ipsum
P.S. I'm not a shrink.
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by Xfactor » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:49 pm
That's interesting I had never thought of the parent child thing. You may have hit on something with that. There is a strong reoccuring pattern of older men with my HPD. Mine actually had a relationship with a guy in his mid 60's while she was 27!! However there was also a guy as young as 25 that I know of.
They seem to need a stable provider that becomes the primary source of supply for them. Both dollars, attention, appreciation, love , sex, etc... Then after a short spell set about meeting their other needs.
My girl had 4 of us going at one time last year... Amazing!
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by baz » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:09 pm
The parent-child thing is interesting.
I am the sam e age as my HPD, but she frequently mentioned (non-negative) ways in which I reminded her of her father. Also the father of her first child was significantly older.
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by Sarina5 » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:05 am
I'm 31 and my boyfriend is 22 (so I'm 9 years older than him).
But I've got BPD, not HPD, so probably borderlines do this the other way round.
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by chickadee » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:59 am
Guest T, your shrink was right. Most women seem to have problems with the father-daughter relationship.
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by nowhereman » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:48 pm
My ex-gf, an HPD, has a husband a few years older than her but an obvious father figure. She has had 2 bf's who were over 15 years younger than her.
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by digital.noface » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:52 am
Hmm, interesting. My fiancee is 4 years older than I (she 25, I 21).
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by ccumm36D » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:39 pm
I met my wife and we moved in together when she was 27 and I was 19.
She left her second husband of 18 months. He was her high school crush. She always said he was such a huge disappointment.
Hell, he got off easy!
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