Red Flags of Love Fraud: 10 Signs You're Dating a Sociopath

Red Flags of Love Fraud 10 signs you're dating a sociopath reveals, for the first time, the tactics of social predators who pursue romantic relationships not for love, but for exploitation.

These are the real relationships from hell, but they are totally preventable if you know how to read the warning signs.

Most people learn about sociopaths the hard way after their lives have already been destroyed by one. This book can arm you with the insights you need to see through their charm, seduction and manipulations. Read it and learn the red flags for getting out before it's too late! - Dr. George K. Simon Jr., author of In Sheep s Clothing

Millions of sociopaths live among us, but unlike what you see in the movies, they are not all deranged serial killers. In reality, they look just like the rest of us, can be charming and magnetic, but when they say, "I love you," they're lying.

Donna Andersen, the author, knows this first-hand - she married a man who turned out to be a sociopath. Because of her experience, she launched Lovefraud.com in 2005. Since then, she's collected more than 10,000 cases of people who found themselves involved with sociopaths.

When targeting romantic partners, sociopaths all operate out of the same playbook. Red Flags of Love Fraud gives you the playbook. You will learn:

• Why sociopaths seem to be your soul mate
• The three strategies of sociopathic seduction
• The real risk of online dating
• Why sociopaths are hot in bed
• Why you can become addicted to a sociopath

Most people targeted by sociopaths see the warning signs, but don't know what they mean. Red Flags of Love Fraud explains the patterns of behavior, so you will know when you have a keeper, and when you should cut and run.

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Donna Andersen is author of Lovefraud.com, a website and blog that teaches people how to recognize and recover from sociopaths. She is author of Red Flags of Love Fraud - 10 signs you're dating a sociopath, and the Red Flags of Love Fraud Workbook. She also wrote the four-volume Best of the Lovefraud Blog series.

Donna learned about sociopaths the hard way - by marrying one. James Alwyn Montgomery, originally of Sydney, Australia, met her and quickly proposed in 1996. In two and a half years, Montgomery defrauded her of $227,000, cheated on her with at least six different women, fathered a child with one of them, and then, 10 days after Andersen left him, married the mother of the child. It was the second time he committed bigamy. Donna's first book, Love Fraud - How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan, tells the whole outrageous story.

This man had no conscience, no empathy and lied prolifically - which Donna learned, far too late, were the cardinal signs of a sociopath. Suspecting that other people were as unfamiliar with sociopaths as she once was, in 2005, Donna launched Lovefraud.com to educate the public about this destructive personality disorder. It's working.

Lovefraud.com now receives thousands of visits every month, and readers often say the website is the best source on the Internet about sociopaths. Donna has collected 10,000 cases of people targeted by sociopaths. Some readers share their experiences on the Lovefraud blog, which has evolved into a healing community of survivors. In fact, Donna receives many e-mails from people who thank Lovefraud for saving their lives.

Donna has conducted seven Internet surveys, gathering data from victims about their experiences, and has presented three research studies to the international Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. She is also co-author of two scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals.

Recognizing the tremendous need for the public to learn about exploitative personality disorders, Donna founded Lovefraud Education and Recovery, a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation. The nonprofit operates Lovefraud Continuing Education, which offers online webinars to help professionals and the public spot, escape and recover from narcissists, antisocials, psychopaths and other manipulators.

Donna has appeared on television shows including Deadly Women, Insight on SBS in Australia, ABC News 20/20, Who the Bleep Did I Marry?, My Life is a Lifetime Movie, Handsome Devils, Urban Legends and The Ricki Lake Show. She has been interviewed for multiple radio shows, print articles and web posts.

Donna's prior career in journalism, advertising and marketing communications helped her to create an effective website. She was the original editor of Atlantic City Magazine from 1978 to 1982. She founded a boutique advertising agency, Donna Andersen Copywriting, in 1983. Her portfolio includes instructional design, multimedia scriptwriting, freelance magazine articles, newsletters, print ads, brochures, direct mail, press releases, radio commercials, website content, e-mail campaigns and white papers.

Donna graduated summa cum laude from the Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1978. While at college she co-founded a student magazine and worked at the student newspaper, the Daily Orange. She also took up crew, and is still a serious rower.

Donna lives with her new husband in New Jersey.