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Dangerous Liaisons By Claudia Moscovici

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Nakia was in a relationship with a psychopath. A person with a psychopathic personality lacks the ability to love or establish meaningful relationships. A psychopath is a predator who pretends to love you in order to lure you into his deadly game of power, control, and manipulation. The man who Nakia thought was her knight in shining armor turned out to be a nightmare. Throughout their relationship, he emotionally abused her, held a gun to her head, criticized her weight, made false accusations, cheated, called her names, and physically assaulted her during pregnancy. A psychopath seeks to destroy your self-worth and self-esteem through cruel and methodical mind manipulation. In her book, Dangerous Liaisons: How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction, Claudia Moscovici writes about psychopaths and how they seduce women. She reveals the process of psychopathic seduction: Idealize, Devalue, and Discard. Let’s examine Nakia’s abusive relationship using the Idealize, Devalue, and Discard phases, so we can observe how a psychopath operates. 1. Idealization Phase During the Idealization Phase the predator lures you in with the promise of love He’s a charmer, seducing you with sweet whispers so you can’t see him for who he really is: a cold blooded slithering snake waiting to sink his fangs into your self-esteem and feed off your soul Nakia says during the honeymoon phase of their relationship, her abuser was charming, chivalrous, and romantic. He showered her

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