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Surviving BPD Relationship Breakups

Surviving BPD Relationship Breakups

A.J. Mahari 194 Episodes May 10, 2026

A.J. Mahari, a counselor and trauma recovery coach with 35 years of experience, hosts this podcast focused on helping people survive breakups involving Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The show covers topics such as codependency, inner child healing, family of origin issues, and self-differentiation. It also addresses recovery from narcissistic relationship breakups and narcissistic abuse. The podcast provides guidance for various relationship types and offers resources for healing.

Episodes

BPD Joint Therapy Fantasy BPD Right Fighting Pathological Lying vs Your Eggshell Walking
BPD Joint Therapy Fantasy BPD Right Fighting Pathological Lying vs Your Eggshell Walking May 10, 2026 4070 BPD Joint Therapy Fantasy BPD Right-Fighting & Pathological Lying vs Your Eggshell-WalkingBPD joint therapy doesn’t work and is a fantasy bonded nightmare of Borderline victim/martyr cs your Codependent walking on eggshells and trauma bond addiction to intermittent reinforcement.Borderlines - unless clinically proven to actually be recovered need their own therapy and you need yours. BPD relat
BPD Negative Behavior - Don’t Confront It - What Can You Do_
BPD Negative Behavior - Don’t Confront It - What Can You Do_ Apr 8, 2026 1921 BPD Negative Behavior - Don’t Confront It - What Can You Do?BPD Negative Behavior - You can’t confront it. You may have unsuccessfully tried endless times. It increases your suffering each time, but to not say anything will increase your suffering as well. This is the heart of BPD toxic relationships wherein you just cannot win.What can you actually do? What you can do is admit your are powerless
High Functioning Borderlines in Careers vs Relationships
High Functioning Borderlines in Careers vs Relationships Apr 5, 2026 3582 High Functioning BPD in Careers vs RelationshipsHow can a person diagnosed with BPD and with many active Borderline traits, behaviour etc in a relationship possibly function in careers, and often be or be becoming Social Workers and Psychologists?The core reason is the vast difference in many with high functioning BPD having a high IQ in the absence of emotional relational intelligence. They remai
Co-Parenting or Paralell Parenting With a BPD Ex - Another RollerCoaster
Co-Parenting or Paralell Parenting With a BPD Ex - Another RollerCoaster Feb 28, 2026 3582 Co-Pareting or Parallel Parenting With a BPD Ex - Another RollerCoasterCo-Parenting or Parallel parenting with a BPD - Borderline Personality Disordered Ex is for somany people, a nightmare. Not all BPD parents are the same, but, many, many of them are untreated,competitive, need their child or children's love and validation in such an unhealthy way that their need for a child or children's "loyal
BPD Sudden Discard of Monkey Branching Crushed Future
BPD Sudden Discard of Monkey Branching Crushed Future Feb 3, 2026 2878 BPD Sudden Discard of Monkey Branching Crushed FutureMany people who have been in short term or long term relationships with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder experience a BPD sudden discard of monkey branching that just crushes you and all the future plans that you believed were going to be your life unfolding in the relationship with the person with BPD that you didn't know, you didn'
The Glass Borderline "H*mpty D*mpty" No Real Self
The Glass Borderline "H*mpty D*mpty" No Real Self Jan 18, 2026 1661 The Glass Borderline 'H*mpty D*mpty' No Real Self BPD Breakups and Codependent BPD Exes endless "what if's' in the confusion, losing of yourself, the rumination, the cognitive dissonance and the constant "how could he/she do this?" "What did I do wrong?" If only I would/could have had ___________ or done _________ or said ____________ or not done or said ____________ All these 'what if's' when you
Reactive Abuse in BPD Partners and Exes
Reactive Abuse in BPD Partners and Exes Dec 21, 2025 1543 Reactive Abuse in BPD Partners and Exes is a trauma-informed podcast focused on understanding reactive abuse, emotional dysregulation, and the complex relationship dynamics that can occur with partners or ex-partners affected by borderline personality disorder (BPD) or similar patterns.This podcast wpisode explores how reactive behaviors can develop in emotionally abusive or highly dysregulated re
Misunderstanding BPD Intensity as Love
Misunderstanding BPD Intensity as Love Dec 6, 2025 2915 Misunderstanding BPD Intensity as LoveSo many partners and ex-partners of people with untreated Borderline Personality Disorder mistake the early intensity for love—because it feels overwhelming, consuming, and deeply validating. In this episode, I gently guide you through why Borderline emotional flooding gets misinterpreted as intimacy, connection, or destiny.You’ll learn why intensity is not lo
BPD Hypersexuality Is Self-Soothing And You are The Bandage
BPD Hypersexuality Is Self-Soothing And You are The Bandage Dec 5, 2025 1425 BPD Hypersexuality Is Self-Soothing And You are The BandageIn this episode, we explore the misunderstood and often painful dynamic of Borderline hypersexuality—not as “promiscuity,” not as a moral failure, but as an attempt to self-soothe overwhelming internal distress. I walk you through why so many people with BPD turn to sexual intensity to regulate shame, emptiness, terror of abandonment, and
Why BPD Relationships Fail - Repetition Compulsions Projection and Projective Identification
Why BPD Relationships Fail - Repetition Compulsions Projection and Projective Identification Oct 28, 2025 1104 Why BPD Relationships Fail - Repetition Compulsions Projection and Projective IdentificationIn this episode, A.J. Mahari explains how unconscious repetition compulsions, projection, and BPD projective identification keep people with Borderline Personality Disorder trapped in painful relational cycles. You’ll learn how early trauma shapes perception, how partners become stand-ins for abandoning or
Borderline Induced Conversations - When Talking Turns Into Trauma for Codependents
Borderline Induced Conversations - When Talking Turns Into Trauma for Codependents Oct 12, 2025 1189 Borderline Induced Conversations - When Talking Turns Into Trauma for CodependentsWhen you try to talk to someone with Borderline Personality Disorder and the conversation suddenly turns emotional, chaotic, or painful — you’re not communicating. You’re in an induced conversation.In this episode, A.J. Mahari explains how Borderlines and Codependents unconsciously pull each other into trauma-based e
Borderline Love a Looping Trap of Deception
Borderline Love a Looping Trap of Deception Oct 11, 2025 1796 Borderline Love a Looping Trap of DeceptionBorderline Love is a looping trap of deception rooted in fantasy, betrayal, false hope, and trauma bonded dynamics of pseudo attachment and the Borderline idealization trap of deception (conscious or unconscious). People with BPD deceive boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, the favorite person, friends and family members as well as themselves.P

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