Navigating Intimate Relationships with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Personal Account

Jess
10 min readFeb 28

Understanding the Struggle to Connect

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When I was a kid, I knew I was adopted because my parents informed me regularly. They didn’t want it to be a surprise later in life, and they wanted to normalize it as much as possible — but because I was an infant during the adoption process, my memory of the trauma I…