Now I know a few might think it's cruel... and a few might feel I'm justified...
My stance: Is it really "cruel" to experiment with a robot?

On the other board a few weeks ago, I mentioned how I've started dating a sociopath. I only did it initially because I was afraid (after I discovered he was a sociopath) that he'd stalk me as we've all grown accustom to. Then I decided it might be a fun experiment to find out how the progression of a psychopathic bond works.

We started as neighbors, hanging out with a group of 6 people a few nights a week.
After about a month, we hung out alone one night until 6am (first kiss) and I grilled him. I didn't really talk myself aside from asking a ton of questions about him so I wouldn't give my own personality away. That's one thing I've learned from my past: I talked too much - I gave it all away early on so the P's knew what to say to create the "perfect mate".

So Red Flags that first night: He said he was a good liar. He was arrested once for kidnapping his senior year but it was the kid's (victim) fault. He also said he's often called a robot and he can fake cry at will. He used to make his girlfriend cry all the time (but of course, according to him, it was her fault because she was hypoglycemic or something) and she was controlling & never let him have any friends... see the pattern forming?

*******And if I didn't know psychopathy, I would've been sucked right in to his pity play... but I just let him keep digging his hole.********

I told him I like pumpkin lattes... and suddenly he likes pumpkin lattes but yet he never drinks them when we get them. He gives his drink to me after a few sips. Last week, we visited his regular Starbucks and they asked if he wanted his normal mocha. When he said "No, pumpkin today please" they all looked at him like he was nuts - they had that confused "what the hell?" look.

He says he doesn't camouflage who he is, he just "adapts" to the people around him. He repeats "he's a giver" over and over, like he's trying to convince both of us of it.

He was overly flattering: I'm so hot.... I'm so smart... I'm so thin... I look so young... he's never been with someone with such a hot body before... etc.

I asked him to name one thing he's done for others where he expected absolutely nothing in return and he fixated on it for literally days. He would randomly, mid-conversation on a totally different topic, say "Oh! I remember when I gave a lady and her child an umbrella in Korea. It was raining really hard but they needed it more than I did." (obviously fake story - his demeanor alone gave it away)

When I said I wasn't feeling it between us, he got a little scary and clingy. I told him we have absolutely nothing in common and he began insisting like a mad person that we have tons in common but yet he couldn't name anything in particular (remember, I've been keeping my mouth shut about myself).

Now he's started telling me that I'm clinically insane (but of course, in a joking manner - pshuah yeah right) and that the guys we hang out with want to sleep with me... that the girls don't like me. That he "doesn't want to share me" with anyone else, including our friends.
(isolation)

Then there was the constant texting last week and after a weekend of intense relations and spending quite a bit of time together, that's when I started getting the butterflies......... so of course, I slammed on the brakes and I've ignored him for the past 3 days and **POOF** butterflies are gone.

The skinny of it is this:
It's an addiction to the constant attention combined with the other behaviors... but primarily the attention thing.