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What sociopaths want: power, control and sex

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May 10, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  481 Comments

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The two most recent Letters to Lovefraud both had the same theme: Sociopathic men who relentlessly pursued women, proclaiming their love, making glowing promises of a committed relationship. The men pushed for sex, and although the women resisted, eventually, believing they were involved in real romances, the women succumbed to the men’s physical desires. With that, both women were dumped.

Read the letters here:

I met him on Facebook, was used for sex and dumped the next day

I felt bonded, even though this made me nauseated

Both women were astounded at how they were unceremoniously booted. They had a hard time coming to grips with the idea that they’d been used and abused. How could a man say all those wonderful things and not mean them? How could a man who talked so eloquently about love be lying? How could a man paint such a beautiful picture of the future and then discard me? Was there something wrong with me? Wasn’t I sexy enough? Smart enough? Pretty enough?

Both women tried to get answers from the men. The men, however, never admitted the true reason that they did what they did:

They wanted to.

Core of a sociopath

Sometimes it’s hard for us to get our minds around how truly different sociopathic individuals are from the rest of us. This is understandable. After all, 96% to 99% of people are like us—capable of love and consideration.

But that 1% to 4% who are sociopaths—well, they might as well be aliens. These people:

  • Feel no empathy at all towards other human beings
  • Have no conscience
  • Are interested only power, control and sex

This is the core of a sociopath—no empathy, no conscience and desiring only power, control and sex.

Implications

So what does this mean? It means sociopaths feel entitled to take what they want, regardless of how their actions may damage others. It means they get no satisfaction from connectedness with others, they only get satisfaction from winning. It means sociopaths view the world as predators and prey—they are the predators and everyone else is prey.

This is shocking. Mind-blowing. Impossible to understand.

So we cannot try to understand. We can only accept. This is how they are.

They do not want us as lovers, partners, friends or family members. They want power, control and sex.

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  1. hens

    May 13, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    I dont think you will ever meet a man that thinks his unit is too big. I told my X that he thot his unit was his ticket to the world.. what will these oversized spath tards do when they go limp? they are all prostitutes ~! and whores..hustlers and con men..

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  2. silvermoon

    May 13, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    do your ears hang low do trhey wobble to and fro
    can ya tie em in a knot can ya tie em in a bow?

    Being a man has nothing to do with it.

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  3. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    May 13, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    hahahaaha! silver!!!! 🙂

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  4. Ox Drover

    May 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    I think I am just going to pull up my pants and go home if you guys are gonna talk dirty! LOL ROTFLMAO

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  5. Outlier

    May 13, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    Hello Psyche, thanks for the note upthread. Whilst there was no physical difference with my S sister and the rest of the family; it was her energy during infancy (I’m a year younger than her!). So before we were talking or she had the capacity to abuse me, I felt the energy. Not the elders who were bigger and were talking and right around me. The energy was evil, sinister. That’s what I felt. Not from other toddlers at the nursery. No! Just.from.her. I recall feeling ‘I’m in the presence of evil’.

    The S psychiatrist used the ‘wide staring eyes’ line on my eldest sister to describe me when I challenged her. The danger of a sociopath psychiatrist – they have knowledge of the disorder, pick out specific traits of the sociopath and assign them to their victim.

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  6. hens

    May 13, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    did ya hear about the dude who found a magic lamp and rubbed it and when the magic jeanny asked his wish the man said he wanted a dick so big it dragged the ground and POOF his legs were two inches long~!

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  7. ErinBrock

    May 13, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    ROTFLMAO……..

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  8. one/joy_step_at_a_time

    May 13, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    it’s like the doxies and their ENORMOUS balls….never seen an animal SO out of proportion.

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  9. hens

    May 13, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    lmao what was you lookin at his balls for anyway? i had Harley and Pecker neutered , they will never forgive me…

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  10. Iwonder

    May 13, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    melissa99,
    Thanks for the post. God, how do I attract these types? This guy all the sudden after knowing him over a year turned ice cold. I kept professing my feelings for him. Christmas came and I went out and bought him a nice expensive gift I couldn’t afford…he showed up for a token visit with video games not even wrapped and a finger puppet. What the hell??? AND, I checked ebay online…he put it for sale. It didn’t even mean anything to him. It was a time when he was coming back around and I thought we were getting back together. That blew my mind. Now he’s got a new woman and says he’s going to marry this one. I don’t get it. This guy said all the right things in the beginning and it was all fake. Gee, I wonder if he is really going to marry this woman.

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