Book reviews

Discussion Groups April 23 - May 21, 2020 My new book series, Best of the Lovefraud Blog, is a collection of my best Lovefraud articles. They explain, in bite-sized pieces, how sociopaths behave, how they seduce their romantic partners, how to interact with them if you must, and how to recover from the emotional and psychological damage that they cause. Buy the collection, and you are automatically invited to join the weekly Lovefraud Discussion Group. We'll talk via a private videoconference, although you can also join by phone if you like. I'll do a short presentation on a topic related to recovery from sociopaths, and then open the floor for questions and comments. Discussion …

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Earlier this year, I started publishing small excerpts from my book, Love Fraud — How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan. To start reading this series from the beginning, go to: Meeting my future husband (the sociopath) By Donna Andersen My husband, James Montgomery, was having an affair with Sylvia Banning. After I found the courage to call her, and learned that Montgomery had swindled her as well, we started working together to get our money back. Every day, several times a day, Sylvia Banning and I spoke on the phone. Asking each other questions, telling each other what we experienced, we started to unravel the tangled web of James Montgomery’s lies. James …

Love Fraud book excerpt: Plotting with the other woman to learn the truth about my husbandRead More

Earlier this year, I started publishing small excerpts from my book, Love Fraud — How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan. To start reading this series from the beginning, go to: Meeting my future husband (the sociopath) By Donna Andersen I had discovered that my husband, James Montgomery, was cheating on me. But what else was he doing? I had to know the truth. A phone bill arrived in the mail for James’ voice mail account—an account I didn’t know he had. I opened it and found call after call from someone in Pennsylvania. The phone number matched the one printed on the receipt for my husband’s new Gateway computer, under the name Sylvia Banning. The evening of …

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Earlier this year, I started publishing small excerpts from my book, Love Fraud — How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan. To start reading this series from the beginning, go to: Meeting my future husband (the sociopath) By Donna Andersen After I left my sociopathic husband, James Montgomery, I went through all the correspondence he left scattered around his office in my home. I found letters from the family of his deceased wife, whom he married before me. James certainly didn’t bother to make the family of his deceased wife whole. Instead, my husband ripped them off. James told me that Gale Lewis suffered a sudden heart attack. It happened on May 17, 1996, …

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Between now and the end of the year, I will publish excerpts from my first book, Love Fraud — How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan. I posted some excerpts earlier in the year. To start the series from the beginning, read: Meeting my future husband (the sociopath) By Donna Andersen I'd discovered the shocking truth — my husband, James Montgomery, not only cheated on me. He had a child with another woman during our marriage. And that was just the one of his betrayals … What else did James do? How many women were there? The questions in my mind multiplied exponentially. Maybe my husband’s office—his audacious lair right in my home—held answers. For more than …

Love Fraud book excerpt: Discovering the truth of my sociopathic husband’s liesRead More

Earlier this year, I published excerpts from my first book, Love Fraud — How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan. Between now and the end of the year, I'll publish some more. To start the series from the beginning, read: Meeting my future husband (the sociopath) By Donna Andersen I discovered proof that my husband, James Montgomery, was cheating on me. In fact, he'd had a child with another woman. Finally, I could leave. The marriage was over. But at that moment, my soon-to-be ex-husband was on his way to my home, the home that I paid for, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I couldn’t let him know what I had discovered. I didn’t know what he would do, and I didn’t want …

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Holocaust Memories: A survey of Holocaust memoirs, histories, novels, and films, by Claudia Moscovici Review by Donna Andersen Most of us have some knowledge of the Holocaust. We've heard about the concentration camps and gas chambers. We know one of Adolf Hitler's objectives during World War II was the "Final Solution" — an attempt to wipe out the Jewish population of Europe. We know that six million Jews were murdered, plus millions more Communists, prisoners of war, gypsies, intellectuals, handicapped people and others. We may have seen movies like Schindler's List and Sophie's Choice. Maybe we read The Diary of Anne Frank. But it's doubtful that we understand the true brutality …

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If you've been deceived and abused by a sociopath, you've probably asked yourself, "Why is he (or she) doing this?" I answer that question, and many more, in my new book, Understanding the Sociopath — Why antisocials, narcissists and psychopaths break the rules of life. The book goes on sale on October 1, 2019. This book is a curated collection of my Lovefraud blog articles that explains, in bite-sized pieces, how sociopaths behave, what motivates their behavior, and why they do what they do. Approximately 12% of the population — 30 million adults in the U.S. —are sociopaths — people who could be diagnosed with antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic or psychopathic …

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