If your new romantic interest exhibits all or most of the following behaviors, be careful. He or she might be a sociopath.
1. Charisma and charm. They’re smooth talkers, always have an answer, never miss a beat. They seem to be very exciting.
2. Enormous ego. They act like the smartest, richest or most successful people around. They may actually come out and tell you that.
3. Overly attentive. They call, text and e-mail constantly. They want to be with you every moment. They resent time you spend with your family and friends.
4. Jekyll and Hyde personality. One minute they love you; the next minute they hate you. Their personality changes like flipping a switch.
5. Blame others. Nothing is ever their fault. They always have an excuse. Someone else causes their problems.
6. Lies and gaps in the story. You ask questions, and the answers are vague. They tell stupid lies. They tell outrageous lies. They lie when they’d make out better telling the truth.
7. Intense eye contact. Call it the predatory stare. If you get a chill down your spine when they look at you, pay attention.
8. Move fast. They quickly proclaim that you’re their true love and soul mate. They want to move in together or get married quickly.
9. Pity play. They appeal to your sympathy. They want you to feel sorry for their abusive childhood, psychotic ex, incurable disease or financial setbacks.
10. Sexual magnetism. If you feel intense attraction, if your physical relationship is unbelievable, it may be their excess testosterone.
For more on this topic, see Donna Andersen’s book, Red Flags of Love Fraud—10 signs you’re dating a sociopath.
kim frederick
Hi, DW. It’s nice to read you. In answer to your question, Yes. I love this:
http://jemima.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/autobiography-in-five-short-chapters/
Back_from_the_edge
Just a share in case anyone is interested….
A website where you can check online ‘peeps’
and help you avoid online scams:
(As seen on the Ricki Lake show with Donna, ie: ‘Love Scams’),
October 29, 2012)
I bookmarked it. Great tool.
Especially if you are being stalked by someone online
or if they are trying to get things from you…..
BE CAREFUL DATING ONLINE FOLKS!!!!!!
People can be ANYONE they want to be, online.
Dupester
http://who.is/
DancingWarrior
Hi Kim F,
I am familiar with the hole in the sidewalk metaphor. Thanks for sharing it.
BTW I am not sure I am getting the right site from BackFromTheEdgeSays’s suggestion. It’s like if you want to create a domain name?
DW
MoonDancer
that’s right Dupester, truth be known I am a wiener dog that blogs..ha ha, had all of ya’ll fooled didnt i?
Back_from_the_edge
oh hens: you are not.
A HALLOW WIENER??? hehehehe
I will pick you up at 7 pm on my broom….
BE READY when I whizz by. xxoo
Louise
DancingWarrior:
In the Who.is website, you put in a person’s IP address.
DancingWarrior
Louise, how would you get their IP?
Louise
DancingWarrior:
On my email, there is a drop down where I can “view source” and that is where I see the IP address of the sender. I know all programs are different. It will be a series of numbers like this example:
96.986.25.110
It will always be four sets of numbers.
Let me know if that helps.
DancingWarrior
Hi Louise,
I clicked on a person’s email address, and clicked view frame source or view page source etc, but I get a whole page of gibberish not a line of numbers. Sorry I am a dense… But where would I pull up the address from? and how exactly do I access the “view source” thing?
Thank you.
DW
Louise
DancingWarrior:
Yeah, it is a big page of gibberish…that’s normal…haha. Here is an example. I got an email from American Airlines and here is what it looks like when I view source:
Received: from aairlines.outbound.ed10.com ([208.94.21.81])
So the 208.94.21.81 is the IP Address.
Just look for that from your sender. And then I guess if you put that in the Who.is website, it will confirm the sender? I am not really sure as I did not try to use it. Maybe Dupey can help us out…DUPEY…are you here?