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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori

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Speaker 1: with you. Donna Anderson back with us, author of Love Fraud,

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Speaker 1: How our marriage to a sociopath fulfilled My Spiritual Plan,

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Speaker 1: also a book she wrote a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: called Senior Sociopaths. Donna is an author website is Lovefraud

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Speaker 1: dot com. It's a website that teaches people to recognize

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Speaker 1: and recover from sociopaths. She learned about sociopaths the hard

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Speaker 1: way she married one. Donna is the author of a

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Speaker 1: number of books and the most recent, of course, Senior Sociopaths.

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Speaker 1: Co author of a couple of scientific studies, she founded

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Speaker 1: Love Fraud Education, which offers webinars for survivors and professionals,

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Speaker 1: and has shared her expertise on numerous television, radio and

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Speaker 1: online programs. Donna, welcome back. I'm looking forward to this tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be here. George, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for having me. And how have you been? I've

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Speaker 1: been great, absolutely great. So how long were you married

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Speaker 1: to the sociopath? Before were you realized he was one?

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Speaker 1: I was actually only married to him for about two

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Speaker 1: and a half years. That was the entire time that

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Speaker 1: we were together, and I didn't figure out even after

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Speaker 1: we left that he was associate. After I left him

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Speaker 1: that he was associate path What he did was he

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Speaker 1: took a quarter million dollars from me. He was cheating

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Speaker 1: with all kinds of women, sixtheme. I found during our

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Speaker 1: marriage he had a child with one of those women.

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Speaker 1: And then ten days after I left him, I found

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Speaker 1: out that he had married somebody else while still married

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Speaker 1: to me. Yes, which was the second time he committed bigamy.

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Speaker 1: And even though I found all that out, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: until I started investigating the other women that I really

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Speaker 1: found out what was going on because a letter came

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Speaker 1: to my mailbox which was essentially a bill of voicemail

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Speaker 1: account that I didn't know that he had. This was

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Speaker 1: after I left him, and I found all these phone numbers.

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Speaker 1: So I called this woman and I said, I'm Donna

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Speaker 1: Anderson and I'm James Montgomery's wife, and I suggest that

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Speaker 1: it's too late. I already gave him ninety two thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: So that was when I realized that my entire marriage

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Speaker 1: was a financial scam. And in the first couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: you didn't know that, didn't you. Well, I knew he

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Speaker 1: about it because he never asked for it himself. He

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Speaker 1: always said that we were investing in our future. We're

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Speaker 1: investing in these in his plans for building a new

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Speaker 1: out to him. But the whole thing was he was

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Speaker 1: just using me in order to mill moved for his

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Speaker 1: grandiose dreams. And you know, once you get hooked into

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Speaker 1: this situation, it becomes very difficult to get out because

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Speaker 1: you've got so much invested. And from my line of thought,

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Speaker 1: it was like, well, you know, the only way I'm

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Speaker 1: supporting him, and he just kept draining and draining and

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Speaker 1: draining until there was nothing left. In your opinion, what

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Speaker 1: creates the sociopath in the individual? Experts now understand that

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Speaker 1: the condition is highly genetic. It's about fifty percent genetic.

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Speaker 1: So what happens is that a child can be born

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Speaker 1: with a predisposition, a genetic predisposition to become disordered, and

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Speaker 1: then there is the interaction of nature and nurture. So

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Speaker 1: typically what happens is that the parents of a sociopath

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Speaker 1: the genes, and sociopaths make terrible parents. So what happens

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Speaker 1: Interesting take on all that. In what percent do you think,

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Speaker 1: Donna of sociopath that are out there right now? When

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Speaker 1: I look at the research, it depends which studies you

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Speaker 1: percent of the population have some kind of exploitative personality disorder.

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Speaker 1: And I should clarify that when I use the term sociopath,

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Speaker 1: which essentially is someone who is a manipulator and exploiter

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Speaker 1: like the rest of us. Still, how come you didn't

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Speaker 1: see this early? Well, my ex husband was slick, you know.

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Speaker 1: But besides that, he was magnetic, he was charismatic, and

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Speaker 1: I certainly wasn't the only one that he was manipulating.

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Speaker 1: He actually one of the things that he did in

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Speaker 1: military honor. So he didn't just tell it to me.

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Speaker 1: And essentially it was just to keep me hooked so

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Speaker 1: that his motivation? Is it the money in this case? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's not always the case. Many sociopaths go

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Speaker 1: who are sociopathic aren't looking for maybe a place to live,

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Speaker 1: In fact, I get calls from people who are like, well,

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Speaker 1: there are both male and female sociopaths. But then eventually,

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Speaker 1: when once they get their hooks into you, they dropped

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Speaker 1: the act and there they treat you like dirt. But

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Speaker 1: physically assaulting you, But they're certainly emotionally, in psychologically tormenting you.

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Speaker 1: And and you can't convince anybody that they're doing this

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Speaker 1: about sex with sociopaths. Essentially, sociopaths, especially psychopaths, want three things.

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Speaker 1: get involved with them, Well, the key is three things.

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