Are You Dating a Psychopath?
Psychopathy guru Kevin Dutton offers some tips on diagnosing potential psychopathy in your mate... and what to do if you find yourself in such a relationship. Dutton is the author of "The...
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Some of you may be wondering whether you're actually in a relationship with a psychopath or whether you might have fallen for a psychopath in the past, and, if you are in a relationship with a psychopath, what you can do about that. Now, psychopaths do have certain characteristics, certain tells, to use a poker analogy, that they display in relationships. They tend to play on our pity a lot, okay? So they tend to excuse their misdemeanors and bad behaviors through something that was beyond their control. They couldn't help doing it because something had happened, and there's always an excuse for it. And although psychopaths don't feel emotions like us, they are masters at pushing those emotional hot buttons that elicit emotions in others, in us....
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Some of you may be wondering whether you're actually in a relationship with a psychopath or whether you might have fallen for a psychopath in the past, and, if you are in a relationship with a psychopath, what you can do about that. Now, psychopaths do have certain characteristics, certain tells, to use a poker analogy, that they display in relationships. They tend to play on our pity a lot, okay? So they tend to excuse their misdemeanors and bad behaviors through something that was beyond their control. They couldn't help doing it because something had happened, and there's always an excuse for it. And although psychopaths don't feel emotions like us, they are masters at pushing those emotional hot buttons that elicit emotions in others, in us....
