I was recently interviewed for an online magazine article called Confessions of a catfish. When I communicated with the author, Aris Apostolopoulos, I had no idea that he was going to admit that he, himself, once engaged in catfishing. Quite a few Lovefraud readers have told me about their experiences being catfished. This means they met someone online who fabricated a complete false identity, including a fake name, fake history, fake friends and fake crises. Target almost died One woman contacted me in 2012, before the word "catfishing" had entered the lexicon, to tell me her story. She was involved with a person for almost three years, entirely on the phone and social media. …
The Five Step Exit – Dr. Amber Ault talks about how her Lovefraud CE online courses will help you decide what to do
[youtube_sc url="https://youtu.be/9b77bSsm9j8" title="Dr.%20Amber%20Ault%20talks%20about%20%27The%205%20Step%20Exit%27%20at%20Lovefraud%20Continuing%20Education"] If you're involved in a toxic relationship, how do you get out? Or, if you're a therapist treating a client who is in toxic relationship, how do you help them decide what to do? And if they decide to leave, how do you support them? Amber Ault, Ph.D., MSW, offers practical and realistic advice in two webinars based on her book, 'The Five Step Exit The skills you need to leave a narcissist, psychopath or other toxic partner and recover you happiness now.' The Five Step Exit course offers you a structured model to help you decide …
Press release: Lovefraud Continuing Education now offers online courses to save people from narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths and one of society’s biggest lies: “Everybody just wants to be loved”
Editor's note: This week Lovefraud sent out the following press release about Lovefraud Continuing Education via PRNewswire. If you're a journalist, take a look. If you know a journalist, please forward the link. Here's the original, with video: Lovefraud Continuing Education press release. EGG HARBOR TWP, NJ Lovefraud Continuing Education (https://lovefraudcontinuingeducation.com/) now offers online courses to help people spot, escape and recover from narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths and other manipulators. Credit courses for mental health professionals also explain the truth of how people with exploitative personality disorders behave in relationships. Those who have suffered …
Military wife fights the Ohio National Guard and U.S. Army for 10 YEARS for more than $500,000 in support and benefits after her husband abandoned her to deploy to Iraq and later parachuted to his death
Chief Warrant Officer Herbert 'Roger' Mills wiped out the family's accounts, filed for divorce and volunteered for Iraq at age 57 Kathy Mills, a former teacher and Mary Kay director who won eight pink Cadillacs as a 'Grand Achiever,' was left destitute CW Mills took advantage of a law passed to protect service members so he could avoid divorce court CW Mills cut his wife out of his $500,000 military death benefits before parachuting to his death CW Mills wrote on the Ohio National Guard office white board that he would be in the hospital BEFORE he jumped Kathy Mills found her husband's home and storage units filled with stolen military equipment and classified documents K …
Count the psychopaths in ‘Hell on Wheels’
Gunslingers, industrialists, cowboys and Indians, Yankees, rebels, carpetbaggers, immigrants, Mormons, freed slaves, settlers and whores Hell on Wheels, the AMC television show about building the transcontinental railway after the Civil War, has them all. The final season begins next month. What will happen to the hero, Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), a former Confederate officer who became the construction "boss man"? Hell on Wheels first aired in 2011, but my husband, Terry, and I found it later on Netflix. We are totally addicted. We can't wait to see how all the story lines will play out. What confrontations will Bohannon face before that final golden spike is driven into the …
Love Fraud and How to Avoid It – to protect yourself from sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists, take this online course
[youtube_sc url="https://youtu.be/JCr4FKgnomc" title="The%20Basics:%20Love%20Fraud%20and%20How%20to%20Avoid%20It"] The Basics: Love Fraud and How to Avoid It Initial presentation: June 1, 2016, 8 pm Eastern time Register by May 30 and save 25%! If you're like most readers, you've found Lovefraud because you've already had a devastating run-in with a sociopath, psychopath, narcissist or other exploiter. So you know what they're like. Lovefraud's first new online course is geared towards people who don't know. People who have never heard of sociopaths, people who still think all psychopaths are serial killers, people who don't know that evil can look normal. So although this course may not …
Video: Learn to spot and escape psychopaths, sociopaths and other exploiters
[youtube_sc url="https://youtu.be/_xR_O0Eoqiw" title="Learn%20to%20spot%20and%20escape%20psychopaths,%20sociopaths%20and%20other%20exploiters"] Approximately 12% of the people around us have serious personality disorders they're psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists. No, they aren't all serial killers, but in one way or another, they all victimize just about everyone who crosses their paths. Lovefraud Continuing Education offers online courses to help you spot, escape and recover from these exploiters and manipulators. The courses are designed for: • people who want to protect themselves, • people who have already been targeted by these manipulators, and • mental health …
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How Dr. Bob Hare began studying psychopaths, and what he learned
When Dr. Robert Hare started his job as a young prison psychologist, the first prisoner he met was a psychopath, although Hare didn't know it yet. In an interview published in Discover Magazine, Hare describes the encounter with a man he calls "Ray:" “He was extremely predatory, looked at me like I was food,” recalls Hare. “With his eyes, he nailed me to the wall.” Then Ray pulled out a crude, handmade knife and waved it at Hare. When Hare refrained from pressing the panic button, Ray said he planned to use his weapon on another inmate. Hare felt that Ray was testing him, so he chose not to report the prisoner or the contraband weapon to other staff. Hare wanted to solve the puzzle of the inm …
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What narcissists are really saying
Book Review: The Narc Decoder Understanding the language of the narcissist, by Tina Swithin. If you're involved with a sociopath, narcissist or other disordered individual, there comes a time when they attack. The love bombing has stopped maybe ages ago. They are through with you, or sense that you are through with them. They either regard you with contempt, or are furious that you figured them out and had the audacity to leave. They start sending nasty text messages and emails. Here's one that Tina Swithin, author of The Narc Decoder, received from her ex-husband while they were in the midst of a custody battle over their two daughters: Tina - The most tragic part is what you are doing …
Tell Lovefraud about your experience with sociopaths, PTSD and court
[youtube_sc url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJm0I4CzuM"] Judge Lou Olivera, of the Cumberland County, North Carolina, veterans court program, sentenced Sgt. Joseph Serna, a Special Forces soldier who did four combat tours in Afghanistan, to 24 hours in jail for violating probation. Judge Olivera knew that Sgt. Serna suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). So when the judge saw Serna trembling as he turned himself in to serve the sentence, Judge Olivera decided to serve the time with him. Read: A compassionate judge sentences a veteran to 24 hours in jail, then joins him behind bars, on WashingtonPost.com. Yes, what Judge Olivera did to support Sgt. Serna is terrific. But …
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