
At one end of the continuum, you have violent criminals - at the milder end, you have functioning, highly successful narcissists who do well professionally and abide by the law but wreak interpersonal havoc. "Basically, psychopaths view other people as sources of gratification and act accordingly without remorse or conscience. "People who con others are generally psychopaths," says Brent Turvey, forensic scientist and criminal profiler at the Academy of Behavioral Profiling in Sitka, Alaska, and author of the just-released second edition of "Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis."Ĭontrary to popular belief, criminality and psychopathy don't always go hand-in-hand, although they certainly often do. Romantic liars try to speed the pace of a relationship so that it becomes intense very quickly." But slow down and take a lot of time before granting your complete trust to a potential partner. And we need those tendencies for society to function, or else we'd be a nation of paranoid people. How do I get over this and move on? And how can I detect a con artist in the future and prevent this from happening again?Ī: "We operate under a truth bias, whereby we generally assume that someone is honest," says Sally Caldwell, a sociologist at Southwest Texas State University and author of " Romantic Deception: The Six Signs He's Lying." "We're also taught to be polite, so we're afraid to challenge someone's words for fear of appearing rude. He's out there running around laughing at my naivete. I want to get him out of my mind, but I just can't get over what has happened.

I cannot even afford a lawyer to get a divorce and move on with my life.

Right now, he's riding a $30,000 motorcycle he bought with my money. Q: I married a scam artist and now I'm $165,000 in the hole.
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The relationship scam artist is usually a pathological liar, a con artist, maybe a psychopath.
