Psychopaths can make fantastic impressions at a first meeting. They will be on their best behavior and act as if you both have several things in common. They will mirror your insecurities, hopes and dreams to make you relate to them so that a bond is made between the two of you based on excitement and trust. They will also overload your social media with poems, songs, and little love posts. But that’s just a matter of fattening up the goat for the kill.
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Gaslighting is a term that has its origins in a 1938 play called gaslight. A partner uses his manipulative abilities to sow the seeds of doubt in a relationship making the partner question her memory and believe that she has actually done the wrong thing. Psychopaths resort to such behavior in a relationship and before your psychopath partner can make you a nervous psychological wreck, its best to quit and run.
Gaslighting is much like emotional abuse and can affect the victim in a most traumatic way possible.
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Psychopaths will confuse you into believing they are in high demand socially. They will surround themselves with admirers, old friends, false friends and love triangles whom they earlier stopped associating with to make you feel superior. However, this type of behavior comes later to make you feel jealous and inferior.
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