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6 Signs You May Be Dating a Psycho

Relationship Advice - 6 Signs You May Be Dating a Psycho

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We’ve all got a teeny bit of psycho in us. But the line between going ga-ga for someone and becoming completely delusional about the boundaries of the relationship is a fine one.

If your newest fling’s behavior is starting to give you a serious case of the heebie-jeebies and you wonder where the glowing personality went that you met on the first date, you may have hitched up with a psycho.

From bunny-boiling to phone-tapping, incessant emails to branding-style scratched initials in your back, there’s a lot to be afraid of. Herewith, six signs your honey is half-baked. 

Communication Overload

There’s a difference between an eager beaver and a psychotic partner. An eager beaver calls you once and leaves all their phone numbers and email addresses so you can find them when you get the urge to reach out. A wacko calls all of your numbers and sends messages to all of your email addresses — all day and every day.

And the more time that passes between live interaction with a psycho, the more nutsy the notes and messages become. "Hey, it’s me" morphs into "I’ve called 12 times…where are you?" and finally "Pick up the phone or I swear I’m gonna boil the bunny." 

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

The fibs seem harmless at first; they may even be confused or couched as miscommunications.

But psycho partners lie incessantly in an attempt to control you. So what starts as lies about small things, like liver also being his favorite food (so that it looks like you two are so similar you must be soul mates) escalates into elaborate fabrications about him needing your emotional support because he’s just discovered that he has an identical twin brother whose cancerous liver will self-implode without a transfusion of your lover’s genetically matched blood.

Beware the contradictions, the overabundance of justifying details, the well-timed dramas.  

Stalk Talk

Don’t be fooled by the cliché image of a trenchcoat-clad dude running from telephone pole to telephone pole as he follows his victim home from the bar. Stalking girlfriends and boyfriends come in all shapes and sizes (and outfits).

And their techniques are many: from blatantly setting up tent and bonfire on your front stoop to see what time you get home, to "coincidentally" planting themselves in public places they know you’ll frequent — your neighborhood porn shop, your synchronized swimming class, the recycling room in the basement of your building.

Don’t discount the idea of your phone being tapped if it seems your lover knows secrets you’ve shared only with friends over the phone. If you’re starting to get that creepy "being watched" feeling and have actually found yourself wondering how the witness protection program works, you’ve probably made allies with a lunatic.

Scared Out Of Your Wits?

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One Response to “6 Signs You May Be Dating a Psycho”

  1. tash on February 27th, 2008 7:16 pm

    Wow. The story,”are you dating a psycho?” hit a little too close to home. At two points in my life, I was dating emotionally unstable men. The first one, I dealt with for almost two years because I didn’t know any better. This guy expected me to be with him every single day, and if I decided to be with my freinds(as most teenagers like to do) he would freak out and accuse me of being with another guy. “You just don’t have time for me!” he would cry. we always had to do things according to his comfort level; mine didnt count. When I decided to go away for college (to get away from him), he made a fit:”you’re doing that so you can sleep with other guys and forget about me!” So I didn’t go. When I was to spend the summer in NY, the same thing, so I gave that up too. In the end, I lost friends who never saw me, put off college and a couple of great vacations, and missed out on alot of the typical teen experiences because I was litterally being held hostage. When somebody gets mad at you for everything and makes you feel guilty for having a life outside of them, they are trying to control you and using their own issues to do so. In a real relationship, partners support each other in order to see the othe person happy, even if it isnt something that they want. It took me a long time to learn this. Some people are simply too selfish to handle this. The turning point came for me when he (forcfully)suggested that we get married. I was eighteen, ready to drink underage and go to the beach and live like every other teenage girl, and he was very adament and threatened to leave and”find someone else” if I didnt love him eneough to do it, so I chose to leave…and never look back, even after countless apologies and battered self esteem. when I ended
    up in the same situation five years later, I knew better and nipped it in the bud. Now I tell any one who I see in the same boat to run as fast as they can. The longer you put up with this, the harder it is to leave. They are not going to change, ever.

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