I am a diagnosed sociopath so I answer this question from my own experience.
This is a yes and no sort of question.
With some people I drop them on the dime when they have nothing more to offer to me. That was the entire person of getting ahold of them first. I can look right through people and I love the pleasure of pain and gain.
Be it, their pain helps me gain what I want and I either find their suffering amusing or I don't care. I never have. If you have nothing more for me to take, I leave you behind. You are, and always have been, worthless. A pawn in my game.
Now go to the next part and I have 'broken it off' with this man many a time before... but I always yank him back because it excites me. I enjoy the thrills of our relationship and I love the thrill of him cheating on his girlfriends and I love it even more when they find out and they are broken hearted. I won. I won. I won. He's mine, not yours.
But I only keep him around because he offers something, entertainment. Even if he were to stop talking to me today I would feel a jolt of agitation or sadness for a moment, but not for the reasons a normal person would. Then just like that it is gone. The feeling is there but its so remarkably short lived that it does not effect me.
So yes and no is the answer.
It all depends on the person, and the taste the sociopath has.
Mostly being bored, I've never had a relationship that has lasted over two weeks, it may change when I need someone to pay for a house. Haha.
The other option would be probably that you are no longer of use. It is tiring to have relationships with people, most of us only have them when we have a goal in mind.
There are probably more reasons but those are the ones that I usually have. You need to remember that all sociopaths are different, they all have different goals dependant on their personalities.
usually quite badly.
Absolutely nothing. Their brains are not capable of guilt or remorse.
By all means be polite and civil to a sociopath, but avoid a close relationship. Sociopaths want victims and are incapable of love. They can be very destructive, and a close relationship with a sociopath is often a very damaging experience.
No, but they can be in a mental institution. hope this answers your question goodluck!
It can be dangerous to end a relationship with a sociopath. The best way to do so may be to just go away and leave the person's life. This way you do not put yourself in danger. Leaving and going to a shelter may be the easiest and safest way for you. Once you leave, do not have any contact with the person.
Sociopathy is untreatable. They do not change.
The short answer is get out, sociopathy cannot be cured. But see answer to the related question.
NEVER, unless there is HEAVY DUTY Counseling going on at the same time.
It is the place that the sociopath wants you in, they want you to rely on them, to care so much that you will do anything. To cater to their every need. They enjoy the power of being one who can control others.
My advice would be to see a therapist. Sounds messed up
If the sociopath thinks he can bleed more out of you than his wife, that's all it will take. Sociopaths have no interest in what you want, only in what they can get. By definition they have no conscience or respect for other people's feelings, and the condition is untreatable. The important question is, what is wrong with YOU that you desire a relationship with a sociopath?
Charming bastards, aren't they? And they take over your life so thoroughly they make you think it's your fault if you don't like it. Get some professional counseling, and cut the sociopath out of your life. No good can come from such a relationship.