Andrew Huberman· PhD
But one of the things that I remember so clearly from that discussion with David Buss was that even when there isn't sociopathy or a strong desire to destroy the other, that in these sorts of relationships, there's often an attempt to isolate the person, first by isolating them from their family, also from friends and coworkers, but all with the goal of convincing that person that no one else would want them as a way to make them "voluntarily" stay.