I’m usually more of a real empath, but once I started to become too attracted to a potential LO + texted with her in secret, hiding from SO that I met and kissed her once, I definitely turned dark.

I still very much understood my SO, knew what to say and do, but no longer felt anything. Instead, I’d cherish every opportunity to be by myself and in touch with the potential LO – who is probably a dark empath herself.

When I disclosed to SO + she made me cut contact, I was totally mad at her in that moment. But the next day I felt totally relieved – as if some evil part of me was gone and I was able to see my SO in a loving way again.

In “Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work,” Hare & Babiak estimated that 3.9% of top-level executives showed psychopathic traits, over double that of the general population. Later estimates, put the executive rate at 8%-12%. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/?sh=7660e413791e)

The rate of psychopathy in prisons is estimated to be 15%. Maybe people think CEOs are crooks because they may really be crooks.

I’ve never worked for a psychopath but I had a clinically diagnosed psychopath working for me in the Navy. Dealing with him was something right out of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” except we didn’t lobotomize him. We took him to the brig in irons and he was booted out of the Navy.

After reading Herve Cleckley’s “The Mask of Sanity” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity), I’m convinced one of my wife’s best HS friends is a psychopath. My wife agrees. The woman still owes us $300.

My accountant claimed she married a psychopath and the marriage counselor told her to get rid of him and watch her back. She was deathly afraid that that psychopathy was genetic and her son might develop into one. She’s a CPA and her ex almost destroyed her financially. Had he father not intervened, her ex likely would have. It took her years to recover. My accountant turned me on to Cleckley.

If you have to deal with one, they can be a real handful. I can imagine it’s worse if you’re sleeping with one.

https://youtu.be/ZQ6Y3hoKI8U

Pay attention starting at 1:45.

I think I’ve encountered one or two dark empaths but I never dated any.