Replies to '08/11 Conned by a Con Artist'

Donna, thanks for sharing your Web site, which I visited. I well remember the story of Anthony Owens as I live in Atlanta. That guy's story totally freaked me out. Especially the latest article that said he wants to get back together with one of his many wives because she really loves him. Sure she does, dude. 

Like you said, con artists are not always easy to spot right away. I briefly dated a guy I'd met online who turned out to be a compulsive liar. He had a lot of sob stories about being bipolar and his ex-wife not understanding him. He told me he was living with a housemate but did not bother to tell me it was his former fiance and that they were still sleeping together.  

I didn't find out until I called his house when he wasn't there and she answered the phone. She then proceeded to tell me the whole story. I found out a lot I didn't know, a lot of lies that he told. When he called me that night, I confronted him. He didn't deny anything but acted like I was the one with the problem. I was very happy to tell him to take a hike. I was lucky because I found out before it got serious.  

What this woman has to say is exactly on the mark.  I have been waiting years for shows like this one; but there is still no mention of what exactly these sociopath's are.  I encourage all victims of such con men lovers to search the internet for the condition call NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER, and see the similarities.  This mental condition is not treatable.  Most who have it, deny anything is wrong with them and do no warm to mental health professionals.  I was lucky enough that the monster I was involved with was sloppy and I have an open, layed back personality, I was able to easliy research him, contact his other wives and girlfriends and actually help them understand what a creep they were involved with.  This man "dated" as many as 12 women at a time, all believing they were the only person in his life.  The real shocker was that he was either bisexual or oppressively gay and hated women!  These con men most likely are more seriously mentally ill then anyone could imagine....the are sociaopaths.  I've wanted to expose him so many times, but the have found that he was the most convincing pathological liar, that he current women didn't believe one bad word about him.  He has married and divorced 3 times, has 5 children by four women.  He plays the martyr and has conned women into financing expensive things for him, then dumps them.  Two of the women he was involved with had just inherited money and he broke them both.  If you think you are involved with such a person, please educate yourself about narcissistic personality disorder, we owe it to our daughters, our girlfriends, to all the women we know, to help them identify such con creeps.