Episode 354: Disclosing BPD in Relationships & Boyfriend Too Close to His Mother
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! In this episode, I tackle two great listener questions about relationships. The first one comes from someone with borderline personality disorder who would like to figure out if and when they should reveal this to potential partners. The second question comes all the way from Columbia and features someone who is concerned about how enmeshed her boyfriend is with his mother.
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode354
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| 0:00.0 | It sounds like he and his mother are very enmeshed and that she might be using him kind of as a surrogate husband. |
| 0:07.0 | I say this because you're being treated like the other woman. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:14.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, and |
| 0:18.2 | some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:20.3 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:27.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out |
| 0:34.4 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 0:38.5 | free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:45.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:50.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All Right. Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health |
| 1:13.4 | Podcast episode 344. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych, and |
| 1:18.8 | make mental health content for real people just like you. And today we have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:25.2 | Both of these questions are basically about dating, relationships, that sort of thing. |
| 1:29.5 | So awesome questions, I'm happy to share them. If you would like to send me a question for the show, |
| 1:34.9 | please shoot me an email to duff the psych at gmail.com or use the contact form on my website at |
| 1:41.3 | dept the psych.com. |
| 1:43.0 | And yeah, I think this should be a pretty, you know, nice and tight relatively short episode, |
| 1:48.0 | but before getting into it, since these are both about dating, I wanted to remind you guys that I have my most recent |
| 1:54.4 | you know little mini book out it's 500 questions for dating relationships |
| 1:58.9 | romance and more if you just search for like 500 questions for dating on Amazon that will pop up. |
| 2:03.7 | It's a cheap book, it's thin, it fits in your pocket and it has a lot of great questions in there |
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