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.
conomo
Henry…my friend has a clock that permanently reads noon…hmmm…somewhere ???
Ok just silly now…
hens
conomo – buy your friend a battery…ERIN B are you close to estes park? will be there in a few weeks?
conomo
Henry…Um…Why???
ErinBrock
Hens….
hens
maybe it reads noon cause the battery is dead?
ErinBrock
He’s showing his ‘flaws’ in every state he visits….
🙂
Ox Drover
Guys,
I didn’t realize what I said about “jerking 5 pounds of meat” sounded like! ROTFLMAO I’m a dirty minded old lady! Sheesh! ROTFLMAO CHOKE Snort LOL
Let me REPHRASE. I took 5 pounds of beef and turned it into 2 1/2 pounds of jerky. OK there, that sounds better. If I’d have been smart though, I would have waited til after dark to crank the oven for that and turned on the attic fan to keep the house cool. Can you believe this 85 degree weather before Tax day Henry? At least the humidity was low!
I tripped over the stack of crap I have piled in the hall way that I am taking out of my office, bedroom and spare room to put either in storage or the dump, I have never been a deer foot anyway, and am pretty clumsy actually! When I fell I landed against the door into the spare bedroom which wasn’t latched and it slammed back into the wall and made a big hole with the door knob! YIPES! Now I have that hole to patch and fix and try to match the paint! Sigh!
Actually my day wasn’t too bad except for that episode along with the nasty bruise I got. Glad you got your blower back Henry. Son D and I spent the day redoing the sill on the front door which had worked loose and we had to repair it. Ended up not being as bad a job as we had anticipated and we got it finished before supper.
I made sausage gravy and biscuits for supper, D’s favorite meal and I ate too much, and then drank a big glass of sweet goat milk (had been frozen from before I sold the goats) out of the left over milk from the gravy! YUM!!! It is like cocaine to an addict as far as I am concerned, but oh, my gosh the calories are through the roof! Oh, well, one day off the diet won’t be too bad! Not gonna hit myself with the dirty skillet over it! It was comforting and wonderful!
Henry, darlink, you just let me know where that creep in and I will come pound his head into his butt! He’ll think “skillet swinging old battle-ax” before it is over and be glad to get out with a bone unbroken! Anyone who would be bad to you is my enemy! So there!!!!
BTW, I think what the other folks said about Charlotte is probably true and I do hope that she will come here again and post and read and learn! We are really a pretty cool bunch of folks even if we do get silly late at night! Except for E.B and you never know about that Amazon lady warrior! LOL
Well, guys I’m gonna go dry my hair and hit the hay! Love you all! Be good and rest well! xoxoxox Oxy
conomo
Alanis..dear john…i used to say…but that was yesterday…now we say f*ck you and move on
conomo
I received a phone calll from a “friend” of my oldest daughter (years ago) they didn’t talk …just played this song…Kid Rock+Sheryl Crowe…that was one of the most traumatic experiences I have ever experienced…I wanted to kill!! the SOB that generated that call….made it seem that my daughter was getting “laid” “f*cked…kids don’t always know the right thing to do…adults even…
hens
I am going to bed also, and yes charlotte feel free to post, i was only speaking MY mind and your post was insightful, i hope you have taken what the other posters have said and think about it – but too each his own path of healing….