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Twyla
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If You Are Not in Love Right Now Please know that you were often on my mind as I wrote, because I meet so many HSPs who are not in close relationships—by choice or not. But whatever the state of our current relationships, we HSPs tend to be
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“There is no “old Marco” and “new Marco.” Marco was always an illusion; the best magic trick I’ve ever seen.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
“Anyone involved in a relationship with a psychopath goes through a long period of something called cognitive dissonance. It is a period of time during which you are trying to merge two realities: that the person you thought was your best friend and the love of your life is actually nothing but an illusion; his sole objective was to build you up so that he could destroy you in the worst way possible.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
“Psychopaths desire to be consumed whole by someone else because they lack an identity themselves.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
“My memory begins with my anger.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Because psychopaths tend to target individuals who are especially empathetic and trusting, the best way to win a target is to appeal to her decency. The psychopath will weave an elaborate sob story, pouring his heart out to his target and making her feel not only sympathetic to the psychopath’s “bad luck” but also extremely flattered that the psychopath has chosen her to divulge his deepest secrets to.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Twyla’s 2024 Year in Books
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