Detachment or ?

I don’t care what dr. evil does as long as he leaves us alone. Sometimes when this goes on long enough, you’ve done your grieving and separating or divorcing is just a relief. Sometimes, I think people bury the difficult emotions to get through the hard stuff, like living in limbo or leaving. I guess each person has to figure out where they are with that.

I think either way, you can have emotions surface later because either they can’t stay buried forever or because something in the present triggers them.

FS, I cannot talk to or be in the presence of dr. e. He never stops manipulating and gaslighting, and I am just not in a place that I want to be anywhere around that. Even his emails are rubbish. I have had to deal with it for 23 years now. I don’t want to waste another second in the swamp.

Teri, did you read The Sociopath Next Door? I don’t see my H in it but I sure as HELL see yours. He’s the poster boy for Sociopaths R Us. He’s like an emotional vampire – only the true death will end him (if you watch True Blood you’ll know what I’m talking about).

I would so love to stake his ass! 😀

I am not positive that a stake to the heart would kill doc e. He seems to not have a freakin’ heart.

I would love to see him burst into flames though or explode into a goopy pile of crud 🙂

I have read the Sociopath Next Door, Daisy, I was thinking about reading it again, though. And you might be interested to know that people who work with (as in put them in jail) or know sociopaths (mother diagnosed as a sociopath) and who know dr.e (for more than 20 years) tell me he is a sociopath.

I think to be diagnosed as a sociopath, you have to have had run-ins with the law (don’t think just doing illegal stuff counts) and physically hurt people or animals (not just emotional or sexual abuse- although he did hurt me during sex, don’t know if the psychologist will count that).

I havent’ seen “True Blood”. Is it anything like “Supernatural” (which I enjoy although it has way too much testosterone and prostitutes and orgy/threesome references).
I think I have an idea what “True Death” might be. And he does just keep coming and coming. Every time I think “this is the final nail in the coffin”- the child molesters, the prostitutes, the spyware with more orgies, Bat telling his therapist dr. e gave him porn- every time, he comes back with a vengeance. Time for some holy water, silver bullets, garlic, and a wooden stake.

FS- I’m going to have to go back so I can remember your real name! What a big day for you! I hope that the monster does not make an appearance, but I would start preparing, JIC. Make sure you have access to funds, account numbers, user names, passwords, etc. Get your ducks in a row now bc once they start being assholes, it gets really hard to do anything. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, I always say.

Oh, I have absolutely no doubt at all that he is a sociopath Teri! None. You should read the book again. I haven’t finished it yet. I had to take a break and read some just for fun stuff. But in what I have read, she says that not all sociopaths are committing crimes. Some are literally right next door or in your case, right in your house. They have no conscience, no empathy, no moral triggers so they can do whatever they want with no moral consequences. From the introduction: “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken.” Like I said, dr. e is the poster boy of sociopaths. His pretty face should be on billboards throughout the country as a warning of the evil that walks among us.

That was my understanding too. That the vast majority of sociopaths never do anything illegal. That most of them commit their crimes in the interpersonal arena. Don’t we know that well.