Is there a potential psychological problem when a female claims that a past lover continues to threaten harm for over 5 years now and nothing has happened?

Answer 1

In some cases, if a partner threatens/harms a person over a certain period of time (say 3 years+), then they will begin to believe that they are actually going to carry it out, even if 10 years has passed, the person will be traumatized for life by what happened so long ago.

Answer 2

• Believe it or not a past lover can stalk or torment their victim (ex girlfriend or even a wife) for many years with just being in view of many places she may go; threatening emails or phone calls and even though in that length of time he may have done nothing to his victim (and she is a victim) he is like a time bomb that could go off or simply fizzle out. The law is weak in the area of protecting women against stalking and something basically has to happen to the woman before the police can do anything and in some cases it's just too late. There is a Restraining Order that a victim can put on the stalker, but it is not worth the paper it is written on and, don't think the person wanting to do harm to a woman or just threatens her does not know that. The statistics of stalkers killing their victim is getting higher. This man is making his victim's life miserable on purpose. It is the perpetrator that is the one that is psychologically unbalanced.

Answer 3

There may be. She may be trying to get him in trouble. She may also be paranoid because something has happened in the past..