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adityafulia · 4 years ago

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Tale of SOCIOPATH

Chapter 2

She will make sure you feel guilty

She will take advantage of you

She will eat you alive

After i heard she was engaged, i remembered asking her this question “what are you looking for? LOVE or just the presence of whoever is close to you? It’s doesn’t make any sense if you say that you love me, then you can just accept this guy’s proposal and be with this guy. It’s like you said you are not hungry but in fact you finished all the food in front of you”

Back to the story of this sociopath, the end of jan, i’ve deciced to stop contacting her

But she still tried to contact me, we had a chat , healthy chat i supposed, as a friend, i felt proud at least i didnt become the monster who ruined people’s relationship, i’ve done that for a month, from dec 2019 till jan 2020 and i felt guilty

She constanly pushing for her lies, asking for affections from me, talking about our relationship , just to make sure that i would not out of her sight. I was quite strong everytime she played her tricks (or, i thought so)

I knew,this is one of the symptons, passive aggresive, she will try to push the fact that i was the bad guy, all the time

She did that on feb 2020, i was quite strong, to just stick to my principle, we were over, i will not try to ruin her relationship, she could carry on

On mid march 2020, she contacted me again, just to say hi, i was still rock solid, i was clear that she was just a friend for me,

My focus was my job, and my personal development, i will try not to ruin peoples relationship and be better person, i considered her as a friend, nothing more even though she still played the trick to lure me, told me about her breakup..she asked me, to let her know once i got back, so that i can meet her

The flaw that i saw, i started to softened a bit,i said “i’ll let you know”, maybe i said that because i thought that she already broke up, and that lift up my hopes up, maybe

Then this pandemic come, i had a conversation about pandemic, how we reminded each other about the safety

She shared about the plan of building her house

She played another trick, striking my weak point,asking about my family

My sisters business, my nephew, my niece, also sometimes she shared the video of her dog

I found out that one of her friend, also talked about me, to her, this friend was also bullcrap, sophisticated conman or congirl i would say

Then i was asking about insurance product, one of my protection plan

March was quite normal,

On april, i heard that one of my friend saw one photo which actually taken before i broke up on aug 2019, she was with other guys, i just checked with her, just to make sure, that she never cheated on me when we were in relationship, with me realizing, actually i still trust her, and just wanted to hear the things that i want to heard, from her.

As usual, she played the tricks, she pushed the fact that she wanted me so bad, i dodged as usual,

we didnt have much time to talk daily, which was good, it was a very casual conversation, about pandemic, about the victim, vaccine, and all those educational hot topics, which was my favourite things to discuss.

She still played her tricks on me, share her food, she constancky updating herself to me, food,aLso give me advice, to live healthier life, basically, to show that she still care, i replied casually, as good as i can, as friend, without intention to hurt her feeling

I still have that hopes

Hopes too see better version of her, she constantly pushing the fact that she is already broken up, push another lies,that his ex forced her to marry her asap. She said she was srill thinking of me.this is what she wanted

I laughed and still give my wisdom, i reveal myself once again, to explained why i went abroad

She pushed , she told that we could have a better relationship if i stayed, she made me feel guilty again, so too speak, then we discussed about another lies, the house

Then another fight after i talked about my ex, i have been fixing this tangled ties, she blewn up, went crazy then we stop talking each other again, that cycle again.. as usual, that was april mid, i was started to feel normal, this cycle, on off

Then 18 may, she contacted me again, asking how am doing, she said she still on break with her ex

She shared about her ex parents, controlling, and still trying to lure me also,to become closer with her

That was her trick to lure me, discuss about the things that i like, business on daily basis,

Withiot realizing, in one week, i was in, i was intensely talked with her, maybe i was stressed out, lonely, i need someone to tak to, seemed that time, she was the only one

She still pushed the fact that she was not in another relathionship eith other guys, she wanted to see my face without beard,

She cared about me, want to know about me, teasing me, praising me, i was lured into this traps , really, big time,then the diry talks started

She began to lure me,said she miss me, said how she wanted to meet me, i was broken because of the work, my mental health was not in a good shape, got beaten up daily , then i was lonely, then i confessed that i cant stop thinking about her, i said ive been there too a few times

She lured me deeper, said she wanted me, hearrt and souls and body, then i melted, at the end of may

I was too lonely, crushed, i was emoty , nobody did that , nobodys there to help me, hen i realized, everytime something important, she was the first to know, that was stupid me

Then without realizing, we started the call, started to said i miss you too each other

Then i was blinded, i was thinking she was on break, i could break in, i started to have vid call, then in goes intense, i spoke as if she was not sociopath, she talked and responded normally, she wanted me back, that the point that blinded me. Only need 2 weeks for me to actually fell into this sociopath trap

Then dirty talks started, vidcall,, she asked me to come to her house, so we can spent the night toghether, doing “things”

I was stupid enough, naive enouh, even though i knew she is still with his fisncee, but she use my family as weapon, she did something nice to my family gave them food, and also meet my mom, i dont know the motive, but for sure this is one of her tricks, to save her face in front of my family

She praised me , i was to weak, it was bad enough for me to be kured to another traps by this sociopath

June 2020

She asked about substance,, she asked whether i had substance before, another lies coming

This month, was the worsrt, i was completely lost, i was officially lured, and disguised, this sociopath had succeed

She was on another meeting with her friend whibh i had i recollect, that was not only with friend, but also with another guys, rich guys, i suppose, hahaha that was good one,, sociopath

With a very stupid naive, i didnt saw that coming, she still tried to make me guilty related to my parents, she knew that was my weak point, she knnew i liked it when she asked about my family,once again i got tricked

8 june, i desperaly chasing her, officially, got lured, again

She tricked me , told me about another guy, which already slept with her, she told me as if this is the first time she knew that the guy is interested on her and she didnot interested

Mid june, she gave another reason while sleeping with another guy, blamed me for not married her,

Cycle goes again, we fought, she disappeared, off, and on again, i was quite firm , this sociopath should take action , im not waiting, meanwhile , little did i know, on “off “ time,she was playing, i gave her time to play , she managed to escaped during that off time, playing her tricks again, with some other guy

Yet, this sociopath still managed to blamed me, avoid to answer my quesrions, blamed me again and again, passove aggresive, typical sociopath

She pushed the fact “why these guys really wanted me, and you were not”. I cired, like a stupid baby,, and i recorded my voice , crying voice, she won, she heard me, she even asked to why she couldnot heard the voice, i knew what was the plan, that voice will be used to trick me again, as weapon, she could record the voice and remember this as my defeat

That goes on, till 25 of june, she said finaly she broken up, she said she was stupid, act like she was broken, she didnt want to be with another guy

I gave her time of till 30june, i thought this was normal, she was broken, i need to give her time,and eventually, she contacted me again

July was weird, first week, whatsapp chat started to decreased. Daily, i guess this is because if the effect of her concentration for work, which was good and i understood fully

But you should know, that was not because of work, not at all. She still pushed the facts that she still wanted me, she still longed for me, searched for me, on the other side, I confused, i thought she already single

I was broken we lost contact till mid of july, i contacted her, just to let her know my moms birthday, as she told me too do it often. 11 july

Lost contact till 22nd,, during the off time, i was confused, mad, also broken inside, then i got the news of repatriation flight, planning to surpise her, i bought the ticket, and asked her one day before my flight, with hope that i can meet her, because as far as i know, she was single, couple of guys tried to connect eith euth her, but deep down i knew she love me, she still wanted me, hence i asked, i still got a fair chance. I though of that

The response was bad, this was the beginning of an end,,,low response, unclear answer, me, stupidly sad, i said i love her, i want her, i want to meet her so badly

Desperately, this was cumulative from may,, mixed with my anxiety and all

Friday i landed, she still contacted me even though i feel broken, no news from her, i know i will not met her at the sirport, no way it could happened, she sent me couple of lines, and as usual, she left without replies

Stupid me, saturday , i went to her house, with high hopes, to get some clarifications, yes or no,, because i didnt not know the truth, my version was, she single now, couple of guys tried to conncet with her, and i need clar because now im back

She replied , dont find me , she felt uncomfortable and i replied asking for information, confirmation, i was confused, what happened during the lost time, 11 july-22 july, she changed drasrically, he replies, dont bother me anymore, i had bf now, and im happy

I was thinking about giving up, i still think that if she didnot want to meet me, she could just told me that, its fair, i can leave once i heard that from her mouth,,,and after i saw this reply, i have given up, i thought that this is what she wanted, so yeah i gave up

Little did i know, this was the start of big disclosures, the end of this lunacy, the end of this sociopath story......

Things are pretty good from here

But you aint really good

I never learned when we were here before

Just stop your cry it is the sign of the times

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wwesmack · 7 years ago

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junker-town · 7 years ago

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Tiger Woods turns 42: What to expect from the aging superstar’s latest comeback

Happy 42nd birthday, Tiger Woods.

Butch Harmon believes Tiger Woods is back for real (as does Tony Romo). Greg Norman not so much.

Las Vegas gives the four-time Masters winner a pretty good shot to earn his fifth green jacket. And Jack Nicklaus (who jokingly hinted at his own comeback to protect his majors record) has better things to do than watch the closest challenger to his all-time mark make his latest return to the PGA Tour following another lengthy, injury-related hiatus.

No matter where you stand on Woods’ chances of reclaiming even a wee bit of his erstwhile winning form (and nearly everyone in the golf world has an opinion on whether Tiger will ever get back to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2013), two facts are beyond debate:

The victor of 79 tour events will go it alone as his own swing coach (at least to start the 2018 campaign).

He’ll be 42 when he next strikes a ball that counts against Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, and a host of other young players who grew up idolizing Tiger but are unaffected by the aura surrounding their elder in his glory days.

They say it’s your birthday

It’s difficult for those of a certain vintage (who remember when a 2-year-old mini-me Tiger made his debut on the national stage and can’t believe it’s been 21 years since his “Hello World” moment) to come to grips with Woods ripping another year off the calendar.

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Yet Tiger celebrates another birthday every Dec. 30. The occasion of his 42nd, with one tournament deemed a success by most under his white belt, and 2018 looming for the injury-plagued superstar, seemed a good time to reflect on what we might expect from the world’s 656th-ranked player when he kicks off his season poised to work himself into game shape for the Masters in April.

Woods’ solid showing at the 18-player, no-cut Hero World Challenge sparked widespread enthusiasm in the golf community and beyond, with even casual fans anxious to see how Tiger can perform in the latest attempt to revive his career. While not every observer was bullish on what Woods may accomplish going forward after four back surgeries since March 2014, ex-swing coach Harmon cautioned naysayers against betting against his former student.

“I learned a long time ago never to say never when it comes to Tiger Woods,” Harmon told Golf Channel after Woods put up three strong rounds (69-68-75-68) at the Hero.

“He’ll prove you wrong,” Harmon said. “I think he can win again.”

Tony Romo, T22 in Golf Digest’s 2015 ranking of the top 100 athlete-golfers, does not think his sometime Pebble Beach pro-am partner will hoist at least one more trophy; he knows it.

“Tiger’s going to make a run,” the Cowboys former QB and current NFL analyst for CBS told broadcasting partner (and voice of the Masters) Jim Nantz during a recent Patriots-Bills game. “I’m telling you right now, Tiger Woods is back."

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— GOLF.com (@golf_com) December 24, 2017

Not so all-in on Tiger’s chances for a successful resurgence was Norman, who sought to slow the roll on the Tiger Woods Hype Train. It was a long, circuitous route, Norman recently reminded reporters at his recent QBE Shootout, from Woods conceding at Liberty National in September that his playing career might be over to blasting drives past playing partner Justin Thomas at the Hero in the Bahamas.

“Everybody was wondering, you know, the speculation of him saying, ‘I may never play golf again,’ and then all of a sudden he says he’s hitting the ball 330 yards. Big difference from there to there, right?” Norman said. “I hope he manages his expectations more than everybody else’s expectations being [that] he’s going to come back and be Tiger of past. I think he still has a little bit of time on his side, but not a whole lot.”

Way to harsh our buzz, dude. Undeterred, we offer some educated guesses as to where and how Woods will try to hone his game for the Masters.

No mo’ Como

Given his wretched opening-round 77 and subsequent withdrawal with back spasms from February’s Dubai Desert Classic, we’re betting the next stop on the TW Comeback Tour will be closer to home, albeit across the country from his Jupiter, Fla., digs, at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Joey was good afterward. Said he has no clue about future schedule but, if Tiger feels good, would hope he plays Torrey. Believes Tiger’s days of going overseas (Dubai) are over.

— GC Tiger Tracker (@GCTigerTracker) December 1, 2017

Assuming Woods’ caddie Joe LaCava has even an inkling about where his boss will or won’t play next, Torrey Pines would seem a comfortable place for an official unveiling of his new, coach-less, back-friendly swing. (In an announcement last week, Woods related that he and Chris Como ended their three-year professional relationship, leaving him, “for now,” to continue to “relearn” his swing following fusion surgery.)

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— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) December 22, 2017

“I want to say a special thank you to Chris Como for all his past hard work,” Woods wrote in his annual holiday message on his website on Friday. “I’ll always be grateful for what he did for me and I know he’ll continue to be successful.”

Either as his own drill instructor or with a new hire tending to his swing (time for a Tiger-Butch reunion?) the Farmers (Jan. 25-28) appears to be a likely spot from which to catapult Woods’ rebound to official, full-field play.

Teeing it up at Torrey, where Woods owns eight wins including the 2008 U.S. Open, also seemed a natural launch pad for Tiger at the start of 2017 and, well, how’d that work out? The much-anticipated fireworks from Tiger soon fizzled out with a missed cut to go with a T80 and that glutes-related withdrawal in his last three starts in La Jolla.

Of course, that was then and this is now, and now — after contending and finishing with no pain at the Hero — Woods seems in far better health than he did for his last career revival attempt in January.

With way too little data to go on, questions remain regarding how Tiger would fare should he decide to make Torrey his first stop of the new year. How will his surgically repaired back hold up under the pressures of full-field events? How about his mental game? With a short game that remains somewhat sketchy, has he truly gotten over the chipping yips that dogged him during prior return efforts?

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We’ll go out on a limb here and predict that, should we catch a glimpse of Tiger 4.0 as soon as next month, that he’ll make the cut at Torrey and give us all 72 holes on which to base future prognostications.

Riviera revisited

While reports indicated Woods had committed to play at Riviera, the Los Angeles track on which he made his tour debut, Woods wrote on Friday that a start there was not a gimme. He did, however, note that he will attend in some capacity the event (Genesis Open) that his foundation hosts.

“One way or another, I will be at Riviera Country Club in February for the Genesis Open,” said Woods, who even had to cancel his scheduled press conference there last year because of his back. “It’s such an historic site and the course will always have special meaning for me. That’s where it all started back in 1992 when I played in my first PGA Tour event at age 16. My foundation now runs the tournament and it will be great to return to my old stomping grounds.”

While there could be Tiger sightings at the Phoenix Open (Feb. 1-4) and/or the Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Feb. 8-11), it would be unusual for him to play so many tournaments in a row. He set out at the start of 2017 to play four times in five weeks — at Torrey and Riviera, in Dubai, and then home for the Honda Classic — but we know how that plan panned out, with Woods done for the year after just one round in the Middle East.

Woods has yet to make a public commitment to play the L.A. tournament, which he has not appeared in for 10 years after back spasms forced him to withdraw from the 2017 competition before it began.

Could this be the year Woods ends his victory drought on what is essentially a home course for the Cypress, Calif., native? Unlikely, given his record and lack of competitive reps.

“I’ve always loved playing [the course],” Woods told reporters ahead of last year’s tilt. “I’ve just never played it well.”

Sure, there were the missed cuts in 1992 and 1993 from the then-Nissan Open, when Tiger was still an amateur, and the WD in 2006 after shooting 69-74. But Woods has also recorded four top-7 finishes, including runner-up status in 1998 and 1999, as well as three top-18 results, so his Riviera record’s not that bad.

Home cookin’ at the Honda

Woods is likely to tee it up in his backyard at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, when the PGA Tour begins its Florida Swing with the Honda Classic (Feb. 22-25). He finished T2 in his second of just three Honda starts, in 2012, after giving chase but eventually falling short of Rory McIlroy.

If all goes well and he is still upright after more competitive rounds than he has played in a year, we would not be surprised if Tiger missed the cut at the difficult PGA National. That would not be optimum on the rollup to the Masters, but if Woods follows his usual pattern and plays Bay Hill, he could bounce back on another course that has yielded eight wins to the former world No. 1.

Missing Arnie

Should Woods put the Arnold Palmer Invitational (March 15-18) on his schedule, even he will likely play second fiddle to the late host of his eponymous tournament. Next year will mark the second time the tour will stop at Bay Hill since Palmer’s death in September 2016 but Tiger missed last year’s event and the emotion will probably still be fresh when Woods et al descend on Orlando.

Indeed, Woods has not teed it up at Arnie’s place since he won his third of five tour titles in his 2013 Player of the Year campaign. What a boost it would be to his confidence and his chances at the Masters three weeks later were Tiger to earn his 80th tour victory in honor of Arnold.

All roads lead to Augusta

Because wherever he plays and however he performs, for Tiger it’s all about getting his game Augusta-ready. Certainly, the oddsmakers are looking forward to Woods’ arrival at the Masters, as the wise guys dropped the odds of his prevailing at the men’s first major of the year from 100-1 prior to the Hero to its current 15-1, at least according to VegasInsider.com.

Even those backing Woods to get back to his field-conquering ways would doubtless scale back on those numbers a bit.

Harmon, for example, believes his bygone disciple — who, he noted, enters every event asserting, if not actually convinced, that he can end up on top — will hoist another trophy, but he declined to put another grand slam event in the win column just yet.

“Whether or not he can win a major championship again, we’ll have to wait and see,” Harmon said. “I think he can win on the regular tour and when he does that, I think he’ll have confidence when he comes to a major.”

With “the Rickies, the Justin Thomas’s, the Spieths” and other “pretty good” kids sharing the same goals, Harmon maintained the path to another Woods major win is especially difficult.

“I think we have to temper our optimism,” Harmon said, “because we see him play and we say, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s going to be like he was in 2000 and 2001.’”

As for the guy Woods still hopes to surpass on his way to 19 major championships, he’ll follow Tiger’s progress — but not from his couch.

“I’m not interested at all [in viewing Woods’ comeback],” Nicklaus told Golfweek earlier this month.

“Do I wish [Tiger] well? Yeah, but I’m not interested in watching him,” said Nicklaus. “I’ve watched him play golf for 20-something years, why would I want to go watch more? I don’t watch anybody play golf.”

Nicklaus, who has fielded Woods queries since Eldrick the Younger won his first Masters in 1997, recently came up with a different response than his traditional “Wish him well blah blah blah yada yada yada” rejoinder. Replying to a question during the tour’s annual tournament meetings about whether he would prefer to secure a 19th major trophy or see his grandson, Buffalo Bills tight end Nick O’Leary, catch the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl, the Golden Bear had ‘em rolling in the aisles with his riposte.

“Uh, right now I'd rather have a 19th major,” Nicklaus answered, according to the AP’s Doug Ferguson. “Tiger is back playing again.”

That he is, and he’s feeling fine, though he has yet to fill in his calendar for the coming year.

“I feel I’ve taken it to another level,” Woods wrote after being “very encouraged” by his Hero play that he hoped “was the start of something big.”

He said he was practicing and building up his strength to be able to handle a large workload going forward, though exactly where and when was still up in the air.

“I would love to play a full schedule in 2018. What that entails, including back-to-back events, I don’t know,” Woods said. “I just have to continue to work on my body and game and see where I pan out. I wish I knew where I was going to play and when I was going to play — it’s a lot easier to prep for that — but we really don’t know. This is all unchartered territory.”

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