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▲ gopher_space 5 hours ago

I mean the simplest way to look at this is that he's just wrong about the couple being happy.

▲throwanem 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I was married for a decade. Little of that was happy. (We both made the mistake of marrying each other, then compounded it by both being afraid to be first to admit to having noticed.)

Everyone noticed - and of course I've seen it from the other side, too, many times. You can't hide when people are together who don't want to be. That always shows.

▲lazyasciiart 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This is like saying that of course people could tell Ted Bundy was a psychopath, it always shows.

▲throwanem 4 hours ago | parent [-]

One might insightfully argue the whole point of the psychopath is precisely that it doesn't show. I recommend Cleckley, whose definition is seminal in The Mask of Sanity, [1] originally 1941 but prefer his 1988 fifth edition especially for its rather disconsolate preface. But even a cursory review of either will trivially show the comparison does not hold.

[1] https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/personality/psychopathy/194... - despite the filename, this is the 1988 edition. I like my paper edition (I made my paper edition) but the PDF will serve well enough for your reference here.