I love how new insights are gained by looking back at past events through the lens of her having borderline traits:
She basically told me what was happening, but I was too ignorant to realize it. Early in our R she said I was the first person she brought her walls down for. I thought it was a sweet comment, but didn't make much of it. In my mind, that's what you do when you love someone; and I don't have "walls". What does that even mean? Then later in the R she alludes to the fact that her walls are back up. I think this is stupid, and get a little miffed, but don't make much of it either.
She is basically narrating to me the borderline traits relationship roadmap! Pull the other in close like it is the best R ever, then push them away to keep them from hurting you.
I keep laughing at all the stuff it took me to 40 to figure out...
M: 41 W: 41 Married 2003 2 boys 9 & 6 Bomb Dropped May 2017