Take precautions after parting ways with a psychopath. Even if you’re feeling as though you’ve escaped the psychopath’s prison, there is a good chance that the psycho is concerned about your successful exit. That would mean you won. This is not an option for psychopaths who will always assert their domination as the winners. Plus, you may cause problems for them. If you get too confident about your escape. Therefore, the psychopath needs to exert pressure on your life to keep you in play, or at least, fearful enough to keep you quiet, and unlikely to upset the psychopath’s plans already in play.
Take Precautions
- Do not seek a replacement.
- Take it easy on social media.
- Do your paperwork.
- Protect yourself.
Psychopaths have a way of getting deep inside their victims so that disassociation from one is likely to leave a gaping hole in your life. It doesn’t matter if the relationship was a friendship, a business relationship, or a romantic relationship. If the psychopath was a masterful one, any separation will leave a yearning for the good things.
It might be hard to believe there could be anything good associated with a psychopath, but the victims refer to them as their most trusted friend, confidant, supportive partners, romantic lovers… with a twist. Every once and a while the charming psychopath might break character, which might shock the victim. The psychopath is quick to initiate damage control by telling a sob story about how he or she was victimized as a child or later as an adult, to assure what was witnessed by the victim.
Many young women fell for the charms of an adorable law student in the seventies. A gentlemanly, likable, Ted Bundy killed 30 of them. Everyone said they couldn’t believe it, “he was such a nice guy.”
Many people were drawn in by the awkward charisma of a nerdy fellow who had a good heart. He made you special in his presence, possessing a child-like innocence. But he was actually on a 13-year killing spree. No one knew that about Jeffrey Dahmer.
The examples could go on and on. Even so, after these and other notorious psychopaths were exposed, people still missed the person that they knew, not the murderer, but their dearest friend.
The same goes for predatory psychopaths that are not as severely on the extreme of the Anti-Social Personality Spectrum as simple predatory psychopaths. While they are not as likely to commit murder themselves, they might enjoy entertaining the idea of seeing past victims dead, either by the victim’s own hand or someone else’s.
If the psychopath were to engage first-hand death of a previous victim, it would be rare than common, and there’s a pretty good chance they will get away with it, with an iron-clad alibi, or the scene will undoubtedly appear as a no-questions-asked full-on suicide.
Regardless, taking precautions following the separation from a psychopath is paramount.