There is hope after...

I was with my BPD ex for 5ish years (depending on how you count breaking up and getting back together, lol). I spent a lot of time on this subreddit trying to understand and reason with the illness. Between the constant fights, mood swings, suicide ideation, the whole nine yards as we all know. I finally got fully discarded in late 2024 after being broken down for years. It was my first real "love" or so I thought. I fully believed as many of you that I would never date again or would not be able to. I met this lovely woman late in 2025 and we have been together for a year. It is night and day the difference. I still shake sometimes thinking of how my ex would react if I did something small incorrectly but it rarely happens now. And if it does, we talk it out and not hold grudges for days. Please get out if you can, there are others and she is not your "soulmate". I know y'all will not listen (I would not have and would keep trying) but there is hope after!