by treetop » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:23 pm
in my experience, my HPD friend stole things only when she had devalued someone - the later stages of the relationship. it didn't seem to be an impulse move on her part, but rather a revenge-type action. she didn't really steal many things of monetary value, either, she'd steal things that held some type of sentimental value to her ex (such as, a favorite t-shirt, a favorite movie, ect.) then, the most maddening thing of all, she would blameshift and claim the ex stole from HER (instead of what really happened, she stole from the ex. lol) usually, in the hPD's blameshifting story, the things that the ex had stolen from her had a lot of monetary value - an expensive bed, even a car. (when in reality, the ex had been trying to return these big-ticket items to her for months, she just wouldn't agree to set a time or place to accept the items.)
so yeah my HPD friend's theiving actions seemed to be more manipulations or revenge acts than real attempts to steal things. 'real attempts' at stealing being stealing things solely for money or personal gratification.
I can't say if this is true of many HPD's, but it was true of my friend.