Relationship progression
The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world with over 50% of all marriages ending in divorce, but the chaos that borderline personality disorders can generate can cause a wide path of destruction before, during, and even after the relationship has ended.
Your legal battle:
Your ex-partner refuses to be collaborative or amicable.
Your ex-partner refuses to follow court orders and often ignores professional advice.
Your ex-partner has a strong need to win, control, manipulate and protect their self-image through bully tactics (verbal, legal, emotional, and financial abuse).
Your ex-partner files multiple frivolous motions against you.
Your ex-partner is not working in the best interest of the children. Only their interests matter.
Your ex-partner institutes smear campaigns for your character assassination.
Your ex-partner tells copious lies to control the narrative protecting their self-image and damaging yours.
Your ex-partner frequently reaches out to you trying to incite a hostile response from you on simple matters.
Your ex-partner displays patterns of behavior associated with common personality disorders such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Your past relationship :
You were belittled, blamed, and often chastised for not meeting all of your ex-partner’s wants and desires.
Your ex-partner refused to acknowledge your feelings or needs in your relationship yet expected you to acknowledge and meet all of theirs.
You were frequently gaslighted leading you to believe that you were the cause of every issue in your relationship.
You feel…
Hopeless, helpless, defeated, alone, on edge, unsafe and broken.
On constant alert contemplating your ex-partner’s next move.
As if no one understands your battle and what you are up against.
Powerless and have self-doubt.
High Conflict Child Custody battles are based on an abuser’s need to control, win and punish the healthy parent. When they no longer have access to the healthy parent, they turn their focus onto the children as a means of control – Domestic Violence by Proxy.