Been in a LTR for ~6 months. A few months into dating, I started seeing some red flags. She opens up about having depression, disclosing that her problems are "her own" and have nothing to do with me. Well, her younger sister is mentally ill and currently bouncing from facility to facility at the age of 16 -- behavior that she recognizes to be mentally unstable.

Anyways, the shit tests obviously have been coming as expected. The past few months, she will throw the "walking out the door" shit test at me. Pretty much, the I can't be in a relationship with someone who does xxxx,xxxx,xxxx blah blah blah. Being an above SMV male, and having read a lot of TRP material; I react by letting her do exactly what she threatens to do, leave my life, "take her things back to her place", whatever it is that she thinks will evoke a response from me. Obviously, she can see this doesn't work, which is where things get REALLY UGLY. At this point, she will begin ranting about how she hates her life, doesn't want to live, and threaten that she is going to kill herself. Unacceptable behavior to say the least, but I could tell it was a huge shit test.

Fast forward to this week; these occurrences are no longer a surprise to me anymore. Well, after she begins the process again, this time I react by simply letting her know I'm not going to put up with this behavior; I essentially walked into my room and chilled on my bed, basically leaving her by my door with all of her belongings (that she gathered on her own accord). She responds by "cutting herself" while I'm in the other room, something I didn't witness or even notice until she pointed it out. I put this in quotes because the marks resembled cat scratches more than slash marks. But I will continue.

Well, the suicide threats continued. I give in and tell her I can't be with someone who demonstrates this behavior, and especially can't have children with a woman behaves this way.

Well, she went graphic mode and pretty much agreed. "Yeah we can't have kids, their mother will be 6 feet under the ground." Another one, "I'm going to kill myself in front of you, so that you have to remember it for the rest of your life, when you're with your next woman".

Was extremely close to calling her father, didn't feel safe doing so until the next day. Next day comes, she wakes up and we have a lot of sex --- sex that she had been withholding for a few days.

What gives? The mentally ill behavior she describes of her younger sister seems to be present in her own behavior. Sadly, I love this woman and I think she knows the only way to evoke a emotional response from me is to threaten her own life.