He had to learn about emotions, accept that he had emotions, and allow himself to feel them in order to experience the substance, the richness, and the meaning in life.
The fuel of life is feeling. If we’re not filled up in childhood, we must fill ourselves as adults. Otherwise, we will find ourselves running on empty.
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He was trying to fight off his emptiness with extreme sports. The shot of adrenaline he got each time he jumped out of a plane worked miracles, but only briefly. On his drive home from a jump, the old feelings would seep back, the numbness, the emptiness.
If the sociopath succeeds in controlling you, he may actually feel some love for you. The flip side of that coin is that if he fails at controlling you, he will despise you. He uses underhanded means to get his way, and if that doesn’t work, he’ll bully. If that fails, he’ll retaliate by trying to hurt you.
According to Dr. Martha Stout, who wrote The Sociopath Next Door, the single most reliable indicator that you’re dealing with a sociopath is when a person appears to purposely hurt you and then proceeds normally as if they did nothing wrong, and as if you should not be hurt.
The only way that most of these children can adapt, get along and grow in the family is to participate in denial, and pretend that their emotional self doesn’t exist.