Living with traits of Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder can make relationships feel frustrating and heartbreaking. You desire love, connection, and stability, but fear, shame, and the need for validation often get in the way. In this video, Dr. Daniel Fox helps you understand how these personality disorder traits impact your relationships, how to reframe unrealistic expectations, and how to move toward emotionally mature relationships built on safety and trust. You’re not broken—you just need the right tools.
Download the worksheet here:
https://drdfox.com/worksheets/
00:00 – Personality Disorders and Relationship Goals
00:34 – Why Love Feels So Out of Reach with BPD/NPD
01:22 – Core Content for BPD and NPD
02:13 – Why Your Goals Keep Getting Distorted
03:28 – BPD and the Endless Testing Trap
04:16 – NPD: When Disagreement Feels Like an Attack
04:41 – Abandonment Fear: Losing Yourself to Keep Someone
06:01 – Texting Anxiety Through the BPD Lens
06:49 – Idealization and Devaluation: From Soulmate to Stranger
07:45 – NPD: When Praise Disappears, So Do You
08:24 – Reframing Relationship Goals (BPD Example)
09:18 – Reframing Relationship Goals (NPD Example)
10:31 – Expectation vs Communication: Practice This Instead
12:21 – Daily Management Strategy #1: Emotion Tracking
13:14 – Strategy #2: Regulate Before You React
13:59 – Strategy #3: Boundaries with Flexibility
15:21 – When Your Partner Has a Bad Day—Don’t Make It About You
15:44 – How to Talk About BPD/NPD Traits in Relationships
16:52 – Let the Relationship Reinforce Function, Not Dysfunction
17:35 – The Emotional Spiral: When You're Left Out
18:24 – You Can Walk Away—And Still Win
19:09 – You Deserve to Be Genuinely Understood
20:10 – Love Shouldn’t Cost You Your Sense of Self
20:38 – Use the Free Worksheet to Identify Healthy Goals
21:17 – Final Thoughts and Takeaways
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐫. 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐉. 𝐅𝐨𝐱 📚
Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multi-award-winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.
𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐫. 𝐅𝐨𝐱’𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 🎓
BPD Course: Learn more at www.bpdcourse.com
𝐃𝐫. 𝐅𝐨𝐱’𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 📘
Dr. Fox has published several articles and books in the areas of personality disorders, emotional intelligence, and treatment strategies. Below are some of his key works:
▶ BPD Guided Journal: Your Space to Release Intense Emotions, Nurture Self-Compassion, and Take Charge of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Available at:
https://shorturl.at/Ta5Dj
▶ The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Available at:
www.shorturl.at/jBHJV
▶ Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance.
Available at:
https://rb.gy/hdyqyy
▶ Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment.
Available at:
https://tinyurl.com/2anv8dww
▶ The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD.
Available at:
https://goo.gl/LQEgy1
▶ Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner).
Available at:
https://goo.gl/BLRkFy
▶ Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner).
Available at:
https://goo.gl/sZYhym
𝐃𝐫. 𝐅𝐨𝐱'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞 💼
Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐫. 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐱 🌍
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👉 Website: http://www.drdfox.com/
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👉 Amazon Author’s Page: amazon.com/author/drfox
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