I've been a member of this group for several months but have not had the courage until now, to post anything. I joined the group to try and understand my daughter and her behavior. Like the member that titled her story "and the mask fell", I came to the realization that I was seeing the real side of my daughter for the first time in July of last year. At that time I unmasked her by confronting her about the double life she had been leading. In response to her being unmasked, she called CPS and made false accusations against me and my husband. She played the victim and blamed us for all her bad behavior and put us through hell. I broke all contact with her at that time and have remained estranged from her. My daughter moved in with my mother and had been living there with her boyfriend until just a week ago when my mother finally saw her for what she really is. After stealing from, lying to, and physically abusing my mother, she and her boyfriend were finally arrested this morning for elder abuse. I've decided to post today for the first time because only someone who has dealt with a sociopath/psychopath can understand the hatred that they can inspire. None of my friends could ever understand how I can feel joy at seeing my daughter and her boyfriend arrested. They assume that because she is my flesh and blood, I should feel pity for her but I don't because she is not the child I raised. She has become someone I don't know at all and can't understand. I am nothing but ecstatic that maybe justice will keep this monster from destroying anyone else's life.

 

Joana