Quote From: forevermrs Why have you stayed for 4 years? You might want to see if you could go on the Dr Phil show in return for their helping you move and change identities to protect yourself. Sounds like you should get away from all of these as far as possible. We should always listen to our gut...your heart will give you that 'Uh-oh" feeling and we need to listen to it.
Your husband sounds pretty evil in his own way. No child grows up without a conscience unless the parent is totally self centered and never gives him any real love and discipline. The parents enabled the child to grow up blaming the world for his pathetic choices, and giving him the attitude of entitlement. Good luck and hurry up and get out of this.....
I feel for you.... a lot of times these Sociopaths/Psychopaths are so smooth... you don't know what has hit you until they have wreaked so much havoc on you, it leaves your head spinning. I wish you all the best in getting through your divorce and starting over.
The best book I ever read was "THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR" (BY MARTHA STOUT).
Honestly, it is the BEST book I ever read, and totally recommend it to everybody.
I always wondered how people could be so deceptive, cunning, cruel, devious etc. This book explains it so succinctly... they have NO conscience or ability to empathize whatsover. They will befriend you and have no problem robbing you and leaving you. They go through life getting what they want from whom they want... they can be charming and smooth - which is how they suck you in...... they have to act out emotions they do not have innately ( i.e. feign sadness to get you to feel sorry for them, so they can victimize you again, or manipulate you in to doing something for their benefit). Unfortunately, because these people have no REAL emotions to stimulate them - they sometimes get their kicks from watching others in despair and are very cruel.
These sociopaths and psychopaths leave a trail of victims and move on to the next with no thought of how you will be left to cope - they simply don't care, or have the physilogy to 'feel', beyond meeting their own needs (how ever devious they may be). As a society....we pick up the tab -- both financially and emotionally.
The best we can do is prepare ourselves with the awareness that people without consciences exist among us..... 1 in every 25 people.
I still struggle with the fact that Scott's mother so adamantly maintains Scott's innocence. I recognize that it must be difficult for her to see her son as the ruthless murderer he really is... but what a slap in the face to Laci's family. Time to own up to the fact that your son is a Sociopath Mrs. Peterson!!!!! I would love for Dr. Phil to interview her and set her straight!!!!
Dr Phil should also do a show on this book...... the examples are in the scores..... society as a whole would benefit in learning how to recognize these people, and accept the fact they exist among us ( I found it inphathomable that people truly exist without conscience and empathy -- but that is how they victimize people!).