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He ties his words around you like a corset, fashioning you into his soulmate. Fast-forwarding intimacy on all levels, he plays the victim, weaving a sad story about betrayal by his previous partner who you will later come to learn is also a victim.

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These pathological individuals walk among us every day in their false masks, often unseen and unnoticed because of how eerily normal they are.

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You are not the words this person says. Remind yourself of that daily, until you believe it.