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In reply to the discussion: Why, Dzhokhar, why????! [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)A Sociopath has delusions of grandeur and has to find minions that prove that status. They use whatever method necessary to brainwash their followers into believing a false reality. Though I was never required to do heinous acts....I was married for 15 years to someone with similiar characteristics...and I was brainwashed into believing that EVERYONE lived in an abusive relationship...they were all either an abuser or being abused and all were able to hide it from the world. My ex was a former U.S. Marine and totally convincing. I was only 19 when I met and married this person. As it turned out...when I divorced this man....his own brother also realized he had been in a toxic relationship with him as well. They also severed ties....and hardly saw each other over the next 15 yrs....when he died from alcoholism that he developed also as a very young man because "he could never measure up to the "granduer" of his older brother". He discovered all this too late about his brother and was unable to save himself.