It’s not that there isn’t precedent for alluring cult leaders dragging women to their doom. It’s that beyond brainwashing and abuse, there just has to be more there.
Putting aside PUA techniques like “negging” and “punishment” strategies including withdrawal of affection. Because almost any asshole can do that.
Someone magnetic enough to convince women to commit crimes is just that. They create a sense of intimacy and bond. It feels like a love so intense there could never be another and it’s using a victims own brain chemistry to provide the “drug”.
Those hormones released during the early stages of love are potent. And certain individuals can sustain the level of attention and focus required to keep those going.
Let’s hope healthier connections can exist. But it takes safer or at least healed individuals to “ever love again.”
(Or someone so repulsed by his affect on them they bolt about as far as one can go. Some of us would rather have none other than no mind of our own)
Do they, the afflicted women, deep underneath suspect something wrong? For some. Sure. But others feel they are in love in a way regular men can’t fathom.
To the point some asshole laughs because he doesn’t relate to the idea of any intimacy let alone too much.
It just makes ones who do have the level of attention some women crave that more interesting.
And should someone create wounds and gashes in a soul? Never mind if it be the same individual? It is the most soothing experience akin to delightfully cold aloe on a terrible sunburn.
It seems natural and protective. But even the aloe plant will worsen a burn if used in excess concentrations.
The cult leader stands too close, his hugs are too embracing, his words so careful one wonders how he could have ever felt lonely.
And there we have the crux. From what I can tell, and I may be wrong. The attention from a cult leaders woman makes the leader feel so good about themselves they’ll do anything to maintain a “god-like” level of success in some arena or other.
One doesn’t normally care about that kind of pressure. But we should worry. For the tantrums and meltdowns that occur when power is lost?
Can be even more destructive.
Necessary.
But a situation that requires careful handling.








