If you use a computer you are probably aware of the ‘default settings’
that come on your computer or in various software programs on your
machine. A default settings is
“The controls of a computer hardware, software, device, equipment or machine which was preset by its manufacturer.”
Items on your computer that are preset are often the country you are in,
the time zone, etc. There are also types of ‘presets’ you can choose
yourself such as what company ISP is your home page, which printer you
assign to your computer, and so on. These selections become ‘default’
settings once you have selected them. Your machine is now set to
automatically defer to those choices every time the machine needs to.
But our computers are not the only things that are set on default. Just
like a computer ‘hardware’ or ‘software’ can come ‘preset’ by its
manufacturer, so can our own internal computer—our body and psyche.
Our hardware is our genetics that come hardwired into the development of
our brain (and body for that matter). This can include propensities and
proclivities to certain traits such as high or low serotonin in our
brains, high or low empathy, and other genetic DNA that ‘presets’ our
internalized computer. Just as we have seen the impact of the
pathologicals own hardwired symptoms, we too come hardwired with our
defaults that want to ‘lean’ us to these preset settings. Our default
settings could be set to attraction to stocky dark haired men, or blonde
and blue eyed, or black men or maybe your physical default is not all
that particular about the physicality of your partners. Maybe your
default is set to other parameters such as humor, charisma, or
spirituality.
While we don’t ask why we have blue eyes or why we are attracted to tall
dark and handsome, we often ask ‘why’ we have too much empathy or too
much relationship investment not understanding that these settings come
hardwired with us when we are born. A fact not often understood is that
some emotional traits are as hardwired as other genetic DNA.
Our software is the programs that have been added into and onto our
machine that tell the machine what to do. These software programs also
impact our default settings but in a different way. Software are the
messages you learned growing up as a child. These messages about
relationships, men and women’s roles in relationships, what power you do
or do not have, the impact of choices, violence in the home, addictions
in parents are all data and information that is stored on your computer
in the software ‘programs’ that run your computer. From your software
the machine (your body, your external life) is run from the programs of
your software. So messages about how ‘all relationships are’ or about
what you ‘can and cannot succeed in’, tell your machine what choices to
make from the software you have.
Software programs other than childhood messages can also come from
religious impact, education, and your own experience within
relationships—each compounding the existing software message or
conflicting with existing software messages. These messages are also
loaded onto your software as programs that impact choices which impact
your life.
Hardware (hardwiring) preset defaults such as hyper empathy combined
with software loaded defaults such as super trust or high tolerance
messages (such as ‘don’t get divorced no matter what’) combine in unique
yet entrapping ways that cause some people to be more ‘at risk’ of
Pathological Love Relationships than others.
We have had heard the arguments of ‘nature versus nurture’ especially
regarding pathology. We know some of the Cluster Bs are born that way,
some are made that way from their social environments and some are
both—born that way and then bent that way further. The same is true for
you, the Super-Traited partner of Cluster Bs.
You come into the world with a proclivity towards certain hardwired
traits within your temperament that are so strong as to make your ‘bent’
towards attraction to, and tolerance of, pathology extremely high.
Into your world with your ‘bent’ you are exposed to lifelong messages
that either encourage your bent or try to bend you away from your
existing proclivities.
Families with healthy boundaries and healthy relationships model the
exact programming that sets a child’s default on a different setting for
partner selection. But families who themselves have selected
pathological partners, who have the same hardwiring propensity for
tolerating pathology, flip the child’s software default switch to
tolerance, minimizing, renaming, and accepting pathological behavior.
This is largely done through role modeling these behaviors or what we
call learned conditioning.
A genetic hard-wired proclivity with a software default program that
supports pathological partner selection starts the process of the
continued pattern of having pathological partners well into adulthood.
In computers, default settings serve the purpose of ‘minimal user
interaction required’ which puts the setting defaults to the most
commonly selected options. This is exactly what it does for you as well.
“Why do I keep picking these kinds of guys over and over again?” Your
default was set early in life and has not been changed. When left to
your own programming, your default will automatically select the most
pathological partner. Your hard-wiring is already ‘bent’ in that
direction and is supported by your software programs to do so. It is so
automatic, so autonomic, that just like the computer ‘minimal user
interaction is required.’
By the time women contact The Institute, they are so exhausted by the
lifetime of the pathological energy-sucking relationships that they are
ready to do what it takes to stop this. Simply stating “I am NEVER
going to do this again. I am going to pick differently in the future”
doesn’t register to your software program. It’s still set on the default
pattern of selection it has been set on for years. If you could look
at the software settings internally it would look like this:
x Narcissistic
x Cheater
x Pathological Lying
x Charming and deceitful
x Helps me ignore my red flags
x Induces fantasy thinking of how my future MIGHT be
x Honeymoon cycle followed by D&D (Devalue & Discard)
x Intense, intensely pursued
x Hypnotic, I can’t think or choose differently while with them
These might be some of the traits you are repeatedly selecting through your software default program.
In software programs, it’s noted that ‘Using defaults will tend to
increase errors, as users may leave incorrect default settings
selected.’
Hmmmmm… yeah. Can we agree that’s true? The difficulty in Pathological
Love Relationship recovery is that women read a book or go to a
counselor and talk about the pain of the relationship but never get down
to the reprogramming of the software. Hardware comes as it is and will
always be there and you will always be ‘bent’ in a direction or
proclivity for these relationships. BUT you can put in different
software programming that will let you pick from a NEWSET of default
choices and not automatically ‘defaulting back’ to what you have always
chosen. You have to choose differently in order to get a different
outcome.
Only a few times a year do we offer these ‘software reprogramming’
events that we call retreats. By popular demand we have added one more
for all of 2012 which is Sept 2-7 in beautiful Brevard, NC – The Land of
Waterfalls. 2013 retreats (if offered) have not been set yet. Please
avail yourself to this opportunity. We have filled the first house and
had so many other requests we have added a second house and only have
ONE slot remaining in it. Information about the retreat is on the
website and an application. Fill it out and email it to us at
saferelationships (at) yahoo. We will review and contact you to let you
know if it was accepted into the program. We cannot comment on your
placement without an application. Cost is $625 for accommodations, group
sessions, and nature outings.
Controls of a computer hardware or software (or of a device, equipment,
or machine) as preset by its manufacturer. Some types of default
settings may be altered or customized by the user.
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Gender Disclaimer: The issues The Institute writes about are mental
health issues. They are not gender issues. Both females and males have
the types of Cluster B disorders we often refer to in our articles. Our
readership is approximately 90% female therefore we write for those most likely to seek out our materials. We highly support male victims and encourage others who want to provide support to male victims to encompass the issues we discuss only from a female perpetrator/male-victim standpoint. Cluster B Education is a mental health issue applicable to both genders.
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