I Need You... Now Go Away!: Reclaiming Your Life When Someone You Love Has a Personality Disorder

Many people find themselves in the same painful relationship patterns-choosing the wrong partners, replaying the same arguments, or feeling misunderstood again and again. These struggles are not about bad luck or flaws, but about inherited distorted intimacy patterns that have become stuck over time.

Psychiatry sometimes calls these "personality disorders," a term that can sound frightening or insulting. In reality, it simply points to long-standing ways of relating that can sabotage the ve...