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It’s hard to know when you’re in a toxic relationship. If you find that your partner is incapable of empathy or remorse, compulsively lies, manipulates people and their emotions, or lacks the ability to maintain respect for others then you may be dating someone who is a sociopath.
This person will not only entangle you in an emotional web of deceit and pain but they’ll also use this information they obtain from the relationship against you. Here are ten warning signs that may indicate that your partner is a psychopath.
1. No remorse or empathy
Psychopaths lack the ability to feel remorse or empathy. Such callousness allows them to hold on to their manipulative and abusive behavior without any concern for the damage they’re causing to others. A psychopath will treat you like a pawn in a chess game, using and discarding you at will.
If your partner shows no regard for your feelings, using you when it suits them and then simply walking away when it doesn’t, then there’s no telling how far they’d go if an argument gets out of hand.
2. Puts your children at risk
Psychopaths are often drawn to motherly types. These are women who are likely to have been victims of abuse themselves, but because of their nurturing nature, don’t…
