What are the anxieties associated with borderline personality disorder?

Abandonment anxiety and engulfment anxiety.

How do borderlines outsource ego functions in relationships?

By letting partners regulate emotions and reality.

As part of themselves, fearing abandonment if recognized as separate.

Triggering each other's emotional wounds.

Borderline personality disorder involves two primary anxieties: abandonment anxiety and engulfment anxiety, leading to struggles in finding a balance between these fears.
Borderlines often project their fears onto their partners, resulting in destructive behaviors and psychopathic self-states, with relationships characterized by a dual mothering dynamic between the borderline and the narcissist.

What are the anxieties associated with borderline personality disorder?
Abandonment anxiety and engulfment anxiety.
How do borderlines outsource ego functions in relationships?
By letting partners regulate emotions and reality.
What is the repetition compulsion in borderlines?
Approach-avoidance behavior.
How do borderlines view their intimate partners?
As part of themselves, fearing abandonment if recognized as separate.
Why do borderlines often gravitate towards narcissists in relationships?
Triggering each other's emotional wounds.

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Borderline personality disorder involves two anxieties: abandonment anxiety and engulfment anxiety.
Borderlines react poorly to rejection and abandonment, developing anticipatory anxiety.
Engulfment anxiety is the fear of being subsumed or merging with an intimate partner.
Borderlines struggle to find a balance between abandonment and engulfment fears.
Borderlines outsource ego functions to their partners, letting them regulate emotions and reality.
Abandonment is perceived as losing one's mind, while engulfment negates the separateness of the borderline.
The repetition compulsion in borderlines is approach-avoidance behavior.
Borderlines approach intimacy but become terrified when it becomes too intense.
The sudden transition in a relationship with a borderline occurs when the locus of control shifts.
Borderlines project their fears onto their partners, leading to destructive behaviors and psychopathic self-states.

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In the borderline's world, the intimate partner is a prop, ensuring the stage is set for her performance.
The borderline views the intimate partner as part of herself, fearing abandonment if he is recognized as separate.
Borderlines often gravitate towards narcissists in relationships, triggering each other's emotional wounds.
The narcissist offers unconditional love to the borderline, acting as a maternal figure and idealizing her.
In relationships with borderlines, the narcissist becomes a mother figure, offering unconditional love and acceptance.
The borderline allows the narcissist to act as both a mother and a parentified child, creating a dual mothering dynamic.
By becoming the narcissist's dead mother, the borderline provides him with a chance to heal and fix his past traumas.
The intense bond between narcissists and borderlines stems from the narcissist's desire to fix his real mother through the borderline's role as a bad mother.