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By January 18, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

About Lovefraud.com — new index of features and resources

Lovefraud offers you a multitude of features and resources, and now you can find an index of them on our new About Lovefraud.com page.

The page includes links to:

  • Lovefraud’s FREE checklist — is your partner a sociopath, narcissist or psychopath?
  • What’s a sociopath? — the information you really need to know.
  • Webinars for survivors and mental health professionals
  • And much more!

Please visit the new About Lovefraud.com page. It’s located in the red navigation bar on a laptop, and the black navigation bar on a phone. Maybe there are features and resources you haven’t discovered.

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Events and announcements
By January 18, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

Mary Ann Glynn, LCSW to host free conference call support group 1/28/19 at 5pm EST

Experience the support of people who know!  Join our free support group Sunday, January 28, 2019 at 5 pm EST. Go to destructiverelationshipshelp.com and use the Contact Form at the bottom of the home page to state your interest in joining.  Do this every time even if you have joined us before!  We will reply to you with instructions to join the conference call.  It is anonymous and no personal information is displayed or shared.

 

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By January 17, 2019 1 Comments Read More →

Why sociopaths can’t love

caregivingOne winter, my husband, Terry Kelly, and I traded colds. I got sick first, and Terry made chicken soup and did what he could to make me feel comfortable.

Then, despite my best efforts to keep my germs to myself, Terry got sick.

By this time I was feeling better. So I went to the store and bought cold medicine, tissues and orange juice, because I’d used everything up. I made him chicken soup. I even made him a pot of chili.

As I did all this, I noticed a warm feeling within me.

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Explaining the sociopath
 
By January 16, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

Does my psychopath miss me?

Editor’s note: The following article refers to male psychopaths. Women can also be sociopaths, psychopaths and other disordered individuals.

Does my sociopath/psychopath miss me?

The short answer is “no.” The qualified answer is “yes, in appearance, but only as long as you can afford him.”

Since psychopaths are unable to have true feelings, once you are removed from his picture, you are gone forever. Somebody else with financial security will replace you, and then when the money is gone or things go sour, somebody else will replace that person.

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Posted in: Explaining the sociopath, Hooked by a sociopath
By January 14, 2019 6 Comments Read More →

29 excuses that sabotage our instincts about sociopaths

Almost all of us have an instinctive warning that something is terribly wrong early in an involvement with a sociopath (antisocial, narcissist, borderline, histrionic, psychopath). Almost all of us ignore the warning.

Last week I wrote about the physical symptoms that we often feel in 8 ways your body warns you about sociopaths. I included fear, chills, difficulty breathing, crying, pounding heart, upset stomach, nightmares and a nagging feeling. The post was widely shared, and several Lovefraud readers added more physical warning signs: immobilizing exhaustion, poor appetite, nervous tension, tiredness, cloudy thinking, vague upset, tightness in the chest.

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Hooked by a sociopath
By January 13, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

Australian woman loses $305,000 in romance scam

Scammers continue to pose as American soldiers. In a terrible recent romance scam, a 34-year-old woman from Brisbane, Australia lost AU$305,000 (US$220,210) to a man posing as a US soldier.

The con man, Cosmos Emeh, 32, claimed to be deployed in Syria, but he was actually also living in Brisbane, with his Australian partner. He convinced the target to send him $200,000 via a money transfer service. Then, in a highly unusual twist, he actually showed up at the woman’s home, claiming to be a “fixer” for the soldier, and collected and additional $105,000.

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Media sociopaths, Sociopaths and money
 
By January 12, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

FREE with Masterclass! ‘Love Fraud and How to Avoid It’ webinar

Upcoming webinar:

The Basics: Love Fraud and How to Avoid It
Jan. 16, 2019 • 8-9 pm ET
Instructor: Donna Andersen, author of Lovefraud.com 

Is your charming, attentive love interest really a predator waiting to pounce? 12% of the people around us have serious personality disorders, and they’re all looking for hookups. Learn to protect yourself. There are two ways for you to buy the webinar.

Purchase Love Fraud and How to Avoid It for only $18.75. More info.

OR

Sign up for the Lovefraud Understanding and Recovery 5-part Masterclass, and it’s FREE. You get six webinars for $99. More info.

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Events and announcements, Uncategorized
By January 11, 2019 2 Comments Read More →

How a disordered elderly mother expresses love

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Browsing, a good day

Mom sat in the store fancy chair hugging the bag in a protecting embrace. She had made an impenetrable Chinese wall with her arms, fiercely defending from me a stolen $2,000 Prada bag. The round mound rested on her lap, while I tried to convince her that the store cameras knew exactly what was going on.

We got some looks from wealthy shoppers that seemed to reprove my pushy, disrespectful behavior toward this 90 year-old.  Perhaps they thought I wanted to keep her money. She, however, felt very entitled to take from the wealthier ones. I felt I was abusing my mother by forcing her to release her “shopping choices.” But this wasn’t our first rodeo at the mall. Stealing in the most abrupt ways was one of her favorite self-esteem improvement methods.

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Posted in: Female sociopaths
By January 10, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

Webinar teaches you to spot a sociopath or narcissist partner

webinar on sociopath narcissist

Upcoming webinar:

The Basics: Love Fraud and How to Avoid It
Jan. 16, 2019 • 8-9 pm ET
$18.75 — or FREE with the Lovefraud 5-part Masterclass
Instructor: Donna Andersen, author of Lovefraud.com 
More info

Sociopaths and narcissists are easy to spot, once you know what to look for. That’s exactly what I’ll teach you in this 1-hour webinar, so you can keep them out of your life.

The Basics: Love Fraud and How to Avoid It

This is the original Lovefraud webinar, and I’m presenting it again for the first time in almost three years, updated with the latest information. Here are highlights of what you’ll learn in the webinar:

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Posted in: Donna Andersen, Lovefraud Continuing Education
By January 8, 2019 0 Comments Read More →

Claudia Paradise, LCSW: How to talk to kids about an absent daddy

Claudia ParadiseLovefraud received the following question:

Can you address absent sociopathic fathers and how to respond to a young child who has begun asking about him? My 4-year-old has started talking about her “daddy,” who she could not possibly remember. The last time she saw him was when she was 2 and the total time spent with him in her lifetime has probably been 12 hours total. I have cut things off with him entirely since his last visit. Anyways, lately she pretends to call him on her toy phone, or tells me that her daddy is going to pick her up from school. I think all this talk has stemmed from her best friend at school, whose dad comes to pick her up every day.

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Posted in: For children of sociopaths, Lovefraud Professional Resources, Sociopaths and family

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