I've already covered how smear campaigns work in another post. But it’s common to wonder just why do people like narcissists/psychopaths/toxic people engage in smear campaigns against others? The...

One very useful and important framework through which to interpret psychopathic abuse is the so called Sociopath/Narcissist-Empath-Apath Triad (or SEAT for short). What is this model of how does it...

One phrase regarding toxic relationship dynamics that has become more popular in recent times is that of so called “mean-sweet” or “nice-nasty” cycles that many people report when caught up...

This is a question so many of us ask after finally getting out of toxic relationships with psychopaths and narcissists. We want to know what it is that made the disordered person target us, what drew...

“Normally when you tell a partner that something is upsetting you, they work on doing less of it. But with a sociopath or narcissist, they’ll start doing more of it. Sociopaths learn what makes...

The idealize-devalue-discard cycle is now very well known in the toxic relationship recovery literature. It is the very common pattern that characterizes relationships with the so called Cluster B...