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Can sociopaths feel attachment?
Not a sentimental attachment, but more an attachment based on whether or not they feel their life is "improved" by someone or something. Can they form attachments to people or things that they come to view as extensions of themselves, or things to keep around to make themselves happy or comfortable? Can they become attached to a person, friendly or otherwise, just because that person is improves the sociopath's quality of living?
I've been told multiple times that sociopaths can't love and that they can't feel emotions at all except for themselves, and even then they're not strong. But I have a hard time believing that they can't form normal human attachments to people and objects, even perhaps a specific attachment that could mimic love in some way. I also read the word "limerence" being used to describe the sociopath's romantic feelings for another person, or at least something akin to it. I'm curious about how sociopaths interact in the face of an actual human attachment to friends, lovers, and family, rather than just "tools or dupes" like I've been told they view most people. I wish I could better understand how they can feel positively about another person, rather than just the negatives of wanting to use and abuse others.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
They can. Sociopaths are not born that way, but developed through bad experiences into one. Virtually all Sociopaths have a degree of emotions. It varies from person to person. It may simply take them a little longer to form an attachment, realization in how they feel for the other person.
Source(s): Masters in Abnormal Psychology.
