Editor's note: Lovefraud received the following story from a man whom we'll call, "Timothy." I knew her from over a decade ago. I guess you can say we started as friends with benefits. Back in those days I should've remembered the times we fooled around, even while she was with someone when he went out of town. Over the years she married this person, and I went on into other relationships myself. In 2013 we had an encounter at a motel in her hometown, I happened to be working in. In 2014 the person I was in a relationship with left the state. The woman from a decade ago then contacted me and invited me to a casino/hotel she was staying in. I went and spent a couple of nights with …
Sociopaths Seem Like Prince Charming…At First
By O.N. Ward Every week, a chapter of my book, "Husband, Liar, Sociopath: How He Lied, Why I Fell For It & The Painful Lessons Learned" (available via Amazon.com, just click on the title or book cover) will be published here on Lovefraud. To read prior chapters, please see the links at the bottom of the post. Chapter 9: Prince Charming Picks Me I poured myself into my new job, but I was a lightweight compared to Paul. He lived and breathed for his firm, often staying at the office until well past midnight and even spending entire weekends at work. Consulting companies are known to demand insane hours from their new associates. Still, the amount of effort Paul invested in his job was b …
Online webinar series: How to recover from a relationship with a sociopath
If you're like most people who find Lovefraud, you've already tangled with a sociopath and want to know how to escape and recover. That's exactly what I explain in my upcoming Lovefraud CE program. I'll be teaching three one-hour webinars: June 16 - Sociopathic Seduction: How you got hooked and why you stayed June 23 - What Did They Want? Psychopaths, antisocials and other exploiters in romantic relationships June 30 - Escaping the Sociopath and Rebuilding Your Life All the programs are at 8 pm Eastern time. If you can't attend at the specific date and time, no worries the programs will be recorded, and you can watch them whenever you want. However, if you participate in the initial …
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After a year of No Contact, she saw the sociopath and felt – nothing
A year ago, Lovefraud posted an email exchange that I had with a reader, whom we called "Alana." Alana dated a man who at first love bombed her, was obsessed with her and then turned ugly. She tried to leave him many times, and he threatened to kill himself. She finally managed to break it off. Then six months later, he sent her an email from a new email address, begging for her to return. Alana wrote back out of guilt and shame and then felt sick about it. She asked for reassurance that No Contact was the right approach. Read the story here: After 6 months of No Contact, the sociopath wants to begin again I just heard from Alana again. Here's her latest email: It has been a …
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Sociopaths: Once You’re Hooked, You Are The One Making All The Compromises
By O.N. Ward Every week, a chapter of my book, "Husband, Liar, Sociopath: How He Lied, Why I Fell For It & The Painful Lessons Learned" (available via Amazon.com, just click on the title or book cover) will be published here on Lovefraud. To read prior chapters, please see the links at the bottom of the post. Chapter 8: I Will Follow Him Deeply in love, or so I thought, Paul and I agreed to coordinate our job search so we could stay together after business school. In early January, Paul received his first job offer—to work for a niche consulting firm in Minneapolis. I wanted to stay on the East coast, closer to family in Vermont. I hoped to work in public relations after getting my MBA, b …
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Donna Andersen explains why we don’t know about sociopaths on Mental Health News Radio
Donna Andersen was recently interviewed by Kristin Sunata Walker of Mental Health News Radio. They had an in-depth conversation about why we don't know about sociopaths, why we fall for the exploiters, and how good can come from the experience. Here's the blog post Here's the interview on Blog Talk Radio …
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