https://www.facebook.com/angela.wesselmanpierce.71?fref=ts

And not even that. gave a like to "her" painting.

In the movie, she lured the victim in claiming that the paintings were done by her 8 year-old daughter and had sold for a considerable sum of money. The first paintings were of pictures he had posted to his Facebook page. Anyway, it just goes to show you: 1. The lengths to which these sick people will go to satisfy their needs and 2. Their lying becomes so extensive that they might even believe it themselves. As I said before, when confronted with irrefutable evidence that she was lying about the paintings, Angela did admit that she had done them, not her daughter. She then made up a story about having uterine cancer as a way of deflecting and trying to gain sympathy.

My own catfish claimed to have been hospitalized for a "few weeks"after I caught on to her and cut off communications. In a brief exchange that she initiated a couple of weeks ago, I insisted that she take responsibility for her lies and started naming them. She initially tried to change the subject then, when I wouldn't stop talking about the lies, she asked to terminate the conversation. I haven't heard from her since. Good riddance!

Changing the subject is a favorite psychopathic technique. In my recent 19 days with Dan, I called him on this dozens of times. They will respond to meaningless detail in what you are saying instead of responding to the important issue.

Here is an example I recall. I read to him a passage from my book about our relationship. In the passage, I was trying to get him to notice that he made fun of me for not knowing as much about music as he did, and that he ridiculed my gifts--for spiritual perception and writing. When had I pointed this out, he had responded, "Change the subject." And then "Cut me some slack, Princess." And then he had told me to go down the street to local dive bar and pick up a man. He had said, "It's not 2 o'clock yet. The bar is still open."

I finished reading the passage and asked, "Do you see how you treated me?"

He answered. "Wasn't I right that the bar was still open? It wasn't yet 2 o'clock."

The closest I've ever dealt first hand with being "catfished" was when my NH's Other Woman had sent me a FB friend request. But she did it under the guise of being a man who was supposedly widowed. And he coincidentally had the same interests that I had. The profile photo was of an attractive man my age, and "he" messaged me that he was in search of the perfect soul mate. He said he had come across my FB when doing a search of an old friend with the same name as mine. That really set off a red flag because my last name is as common as Jones.

I also noticed his style of writing was identical to the OW, who I had prior correspondence with regarding work, plus she had been a FB friend until I unfriended her. As soon as I read his message and profile, I knew it was HER pretending to be a HE.

At first, it really made me mad, but then it struck me as funny! I laughed and decided to give him/ her a message response. In my response message, I told him I was sorry, but I couldn't accept his friend request because I feared it might seem disrespectful to my darling husband. I treasured and respected my husband and never accepted friend requests from men I didn't know. I wished him success in finding his soulmate. It turned my stomach to write such sweet words of my NH. But I wanted to see if my gut instincts were right.

A few hours later, I checked the OW's FB page which had her posts "public", so I could read her posts even though we were no longer FB friends. Sure enough, her posts were about being heartbroken and sad. Well, I bet she was sad.....that she couldn't manipulate me. It made me realize we should always trust our instincts.

My catfish "spawned" another catfish in the form of a fake suitor that she created on FB. "He" messaged me to say that he was moving back to the catfish's town (supposedly he had been in the military) to take care of business and that I should "self sacrifice." His writing style was very similar to the catfish's.

At this point, the catfish herself told me that she had become pregnant with twins as a result of some activity with the supposed military guy that did NOT include intercourse. I may be stupid, gullible and overly trusting, but I do know basic biology! That was the final straw. Thankfully, I was able to end things at that point and cut off almost all communications. But even though our involvement only lasted three months, it left deep scars and caused me to question myself in my ways.

Weird, though, that she essentially used the fake suitor to create the conditions under which I would be likely to end the relationship.

They don't want you getting close enough to bust their fraudulent lives.

But when I did end it, she was filled with rage and used another fake profile to try to get back at me. I guess they have to be in control of every step of the process.

I agree, this is not love. My ex thought he loved his sociopath ex girlfriend and had empathy bc of a suicide note. She ended up robbing him and he tragically took his life. He had depression and she exploited all of his wonderful traits like kindness and generosity. There was no one kinder than him. I only heard about this afterwards and wish to god I could have figured it put and warned him. So many lives sadly affected by this evil woman. They come in female form too, that evil bitch.

I don't believe it's love but for me it was a case of misguided sympathy. He used lies and manipulation to get me to feel sorry for him. We never had any kind of romantic relationship (although he is delusional and tells people we did) but I did feel sorry for him and tried to help him when I shouldn't have. He did things that were indicative of what a low-life he is and continues to this day even though it's been over 2 years since I have responded to his threats, phone calls and emails. I had an OOP but it is just a piece of paper. The other day he sent my ex-husband a friend request on facebook and sent a crazy message along with it. My ex knows most of the story so he knew who he was. I'm sure my story is a cakewalk compared to the nightmares some people on here had to go through but he still has affected my life negatively so my heart goes out to you!!!!!

In my opinion, they purposely look for people who are compassionate and have a tendency to be passive rather than assertive (at least when it's a man looking for a female victim) and then they proceed to drain every bit of happiness and joy out of our lives.

Welcome to the group, Rose. Although I've only been a member for a short time, I have benefited tremendously from the openness and kindness of the "veteran" members.

It does seem that the predators put us through a screening process. Mine even tested me with improbable stories to see how gullible I was. I passed her tests with flying colors, because I fell for it all...at least for a while.

I hope you have respite from this scumbag. There are good people on the Internet...and many on this forum.

Thank you Avram!! I'm sure I will benefit from connecting with other people who have gone through similar situations. People that have not experienced this seem to have a hard time understanding or get impatient. They don't understand that many times these people don't just give up and go away but continue to plague us.

I hope we all get respite!! I have faith that there are more good people than bad in the world :)

Rose... there are more good people in the world than bad. Its about 1 in 20 are psychos meaning n.p. or s...but online the odds of meeting a soc are much higher due to they can hide behind a screen and tell you anything they think you want to hear. Your pretty safe here on this site. We get one every once in awhile but it doesn't take long before they are exposed. The golden rule in life is simple. If it sounds to good to be true unfortuantly it is. Don't second guess yourself ever. Follow your gut instincts. If something makes you feel something is off with a person don't just ignore that feeling. That feeling is your god given intuition telling you to walk if not run away. Don't ignore that gift ever. Welcome to our group I hope you find the answers and support you need here.