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I just recently met a really great guy, and we have gone out for a couple of months. My problem is that things are starting to get serious and I haven't told him I am BP yet. Any advice on when, and how to tell him? So stuck.
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I would also enforce the good points...you are going to therapy, pdoc, etc...assure him that you are doing all you can to deal.
to some degree, though, unless they've known someone who was, even when you tell them, they will not have an idea of how bad it is.
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Tell him you love him, then tell him you hate him, throw abunch of stuff at him, then sit down and read a book. Then clean the house like a crazy women, then lie in bed for 3 days. If he sticks around after that you're all set:)
peace, teresa
peace, teresa
"Tell him you love him, then tell him you hate him, throw abunch of stuff at him, then sit down and read a book. Then clean the house like a crazy women, then lie in bed for 3 days. If he sticks around after that you're all set:)"
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If that's the only picture he has of BP, that it makes people go nuts and kill someone, or makes teachers have affairs and/or run off with the children in their care, then you need to assure him that such a view is limited and by no means the whole story and that it just highlights some of the worst case scenarios that exist. And then paint him a clearer picture of what it can mean and just what it means in your particular case.
If part of your concern has to do with him feeling duped, because you didn't tell him right away, stress that it's something that you never choose to share with people until you know them a bit.
Good luck!!! I hope that find a way that you are comfortable with!! And I hope he is able to hear it and react the way that you would like!!!