When your Borderline client says, "I think I love you!"
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Throughout their entire life, the Borderline client has confused sensations of painful longing and yearning to have their love returned or reciprocated, with the emotion of love itself. Their in-utero attachment to a mother with BPD features is maintained as an unrequited craving that begins in the first weeks of life outside their mother’s womb. Hence, painful sensations of yearning and longing for affection and warmth, has become the Borderline’s
When your Borderline client says, "I think I love you!"
When your Borderline client says, "I think I…
When your Borderline client says, "I think I love you!"
Throughout their entire life, the Borderline client has confused sensations of painful longing and yearning to have their love returned or reciprocated, with the emotion of love itself. Their in-utero attachment to a mother with BPD features is maintained as an unrequited craving that begins in the first weeks of life outside their mother’s womb. Hence, painful sensations of yearning and longing for affection and warmth, has become the Borderline’s