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Can sociopaths love?


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My boyfriend was diagnosed with Anti Social Personality Disorder. Hes not exactly a sociopath but he exhibits sociopathic behavior. He is still capable of guilt and remorse, and while he has criminal compulsions, he is excellent at controlling his impulses. I know he feels complex emotions, even empathy for the people he cares for. But I also know he frequently puts on the facade of an empath in certain situations. And he does it frighteningly well. He insists he loves me and our shared girlfriend (we're polyamorous). She doubts his love too, only because she feels unworthy of his affections. She isn't worried about his ASPD at all. I am. I worry he isn't capable of love. Is it just another act to get what he wants from me? I feel...very unsafe when I sense he is manipulating me. He knows I'm his regardless so I dont see the point in claiming to love me if he doesn't. If he does, what does that word mean to him? It doesn't exempt us from his sadistic and selfish nature. However, hes implied his disregard for the safety and boundaries of others is usually reigned in for the those he loves. Is that it? We get slightly more humane treatment? If thats the case, what is the difference between loving someone versus highly valuing them and treating them well until they are no longer valuable? Is that what his love means? 

I know he gets what he wants from people. I know that as someone he values, my feelings are taken more into account. I know his affections don't waver easily. I also know he is capable of dangerous things, toward everyone in his life. He hates that I don't fully trust. Apparently, his love for me should be evidence enough that I can trust him completely. I'm fine with relinquishing control of my life to him, but that isn't the same thing as unwavering trust. I think thats an unfair request. How can I trust him when I've seen how he can possess and wreck others? How can I trust he loves me when I'm not even sure what the word means to him? 

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by blondehaireddaria
I'm fine with relinquishing control of my life to him

 I fucking cringe every time a human doormat comes here to post about their psycho bf they luuuv so much.

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yeeah it just dawned on me that you prob get a lot of these. Which must be annoying and invasive for actual users on the sociopath spectrum looking to post about real community issues. I think its interesting how common that is, how romanticized the sociopath is. That'd make an interesting forum topic. But yeah this might not have been the best place for my boy trouble whoas. I dont know why I went into so much detail...basically I just want to know, do you think psychopaths are capable of love? Whats the difference between highly valuing a person and loving them? 

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How many couples or marriages can be whose love long forever or unless all their life?.

I think not much of them, in the time most of them only end up getting used to each other. And stay toghether for other reasons like fear or need.

Better learn value what you have as long as you can or want it, because you feel good with it. Because nothing is forever.

And to answer the quetion of the topic, as far as I know Sociopath can feel love in their very own special way. So be prepared for surprises, just in case.

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Likes to be abused and allows the boyfriend to be polygamous. Why can't I find these kind of women in my life?

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I'm yer girl, Pinky! 

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Thank God Wahoo...now let me telling you how much of a piece a shit ya are all night. We can do that every night for the rest of our lives.

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by blondehaireddaria

yeeah it just dawned on me that you prob get a lot of these. Which must be annoying and invasive for actual users on the sociopath spectrum looking to post about real community issues. I think its interesting how common that is, how romanticized the sociopath is. That'd make an interesting forum topic. But yeah this might not have been the best place for my boy trouble whoas. I dont know why I went into so much detail...basically I just want to know, do you think psychopaths are capable of love? Whats the difference between highly valuing a person and loving them? 

In case some socio wannabe here says how much they love their "toys"... The doctors and psychologists who study sociopaths/psychopaths say they are incabable of love. Someone posted the DSM description, "can't feel love" was in there. If you wiki psychopathy, you'll also find that "Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love" is a trait of psychopathy according to Cleckley.

Why you came here is because you want someone to tell you: yeah he loves you, he's obsessed with you, he'll never leave you, you've such a special snowflake to him, etc etc. It would make you happy, because you're so broken that the value you attribute to yourself is based on how someone else values you.

You lack self esteem, otherwise you wouldn't have said some of the stuff you said in your post. You're ok with being a doormat, all you really want is your bf to be really happy and satisfied with your doormattery.

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Why are you so quick to throw your own life away when if this person is a sociopath, they don't value what you're sacrificing? 

Yes, many women come here with a romanticized sociopath Christian Grey idea. It's not like that. It's the most horrible, degrading, humiliating experience you would probably ever go through. It's a pain you can't describe because you have to feel it to know just how bad it is. If you think so little of yourself then go ahead.

What I'd rather you do is take a moment to realize you're in control, you are worth more, and this isn't the life you want for yourself. For an example of what you truly mean to him: after you put a dollar in a vending machine do you remember what that dollar was like? What made it stand out from any other dollar? No. It was a means to an end to satisfy a craving of some sort. That's all you are. 

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by Pink01

Thank God Wahoo...now let me telling you how much of a piece a shit ya are all night. We can do that every night for the rest of our lives.

 Fine with me, I'm starting to get used to it anyway.

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