March 31, 2021
March 29, 2021
M. L. Stark is on the Kate Delaney - America Tonight Show.
I am so proud of having the honor of being interviewed by Kate Delaney today for the America Tonight Show. It was so awesome.
We really talked a lot about my books, about mentally and physically abuse. And why I had chosen to write about a true-life experience talking about dating a psychopath.
How many people can relate to such a true story about dating a psychopath? I am sure many can. Did you know there are 4% psychopaths around the world and 3% are men?
We talked of how I was frightened for my life. And about all the revengeful measures that followed afterwards from the psychopath and his new victim.
Kate Delaney is an Author to several books and her latest business book was published by Forbes: Deal Your Own Destiny, Increase Your Odds, Win Big and Become Extraordinary.
She is an award winning National broadcast personality who has interviewed over 16,000 people in twenty-years in her radio and television career. She picked up a Television Emmy for her special report on the AIDS epidemic in New Mexico and several Golden Mics for a series on immigration. She has broadcasted everywhere from the slums of Guayaquil, Ecuador to a whale-watching boat in Maui, Hawaii. America Tonight also broadcasts from Washington, D.C.
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March 23, 2021
AMAZON REVIEWS of BURNING DESIRE - The Psychopath and the Girl In Black Prada Shoes - Part 1
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Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2021
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Can you imagine living with a partner who is a psychopath? How do you survive living with a psychopath?
The author states "Psychopathy is the only mental disorder where it is not the patient, but the environment that suffers"
This is one such story where the protagonist Mary, a pretty little doll was not aware about the upcoming disaster as she trusted and started dating a truly creepy sociopath Drake, a self-absorbed, lying person using people for his benefits. He preyed on Mary because he knew she had lot of money and that's all he was looking for. We all know, when we start attracting towards someone, we miss some of the details and find everything seems perfect in the beginning and the same happened with Mary. Drake won her compassion and trust with his enormous intellect and charming personality but later she will realise that dating him was the biggest mistake of her life.
While reading this story, I kept my fingers crossed because it's really painful to see a woman who was leading a normal life suddenly caught in a web of horrible things. I felt pity for Mary and for all those women who might have suffered the same. Being a female, I really felt a connection with the character Mary, i felt bad for her. Even though, the story is fictional, it contains ideas based on real events because we can't deny, what was happening with Mary, it happens in reality too.
I’d love for this book to be read by every woman, you all should be aware of this because I believe at least 4% of women in the world’s population can relate to the story. This is even a taboo subject but no woman dare to talk about it. I really appreciate M.L. Stark because at least through this story, she is talking about this thing and definitely trying to help women. The story is realistic and different from other stories which talks about a psychopath and that's why I really liked this book.
I’d love for this book to be read by every woman, you all should be aware of this because I believe at least 4% of women in the world’s population can relate to the story. This is even a taboo subject but no woman dare to talk about it. I really appreciate M.L. Stark because at least through this story, she is talking about this thing and definitely trying to help women. The story is realistic and different from other stories which talks about a psychopath and that's why I really liked this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020
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Top reviews from United Kingdom
anonymous Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2021
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Great book and great plot. Well written and captivating. This book is a real page turner and it will rock you to the core on so many levels. The story will shock you. I highly recommend this book.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2021
The novel is about author’s own story and her sufferings as she fell in love with a psychopath. This is a true story, but only names of the person and places have been changed. I found it very interesting.
Mary is an established woman, but her life is a complete mess. She started dating a self-absorbed, lying psychopath, who made her life hell.
He presented himself as a normal man, started inappropriately flirting with her. He was a doctor and she was his patient. During a treatment session, he goes too far and she didn’t realise that she is entering into a toxic relationship. Later she realises that dating him was the biggest mistake of her life.
Read out the story how the protagonist Mary survives in the story!
The story has been so emotionally and effectively penned down, you will feel pity for Mary. I really felt very connected to her, I was feeling her pain. The story depicts how a single decision can have leave such an impact in one’s life. This was a eye-opening, inspiring read.
Mary is an established woman, but her life is a complete mess. She started dating a self-absorbed, lying psychopath, who made her life hell.
He presented himself as a normal man, started inappropriately flirting with her. He was a doctor and she was his patient. During a treatment session, he goes too far and she didn’t realise that she is entering into a toxic relationship. Later she realises that dating him was the biggest mistake of her life.
Read out the story how the protagonist Mary survives in the story!
The story has been so emotionally and effectively penned down, you will feel pity for Mary. I really felt very connected to her, I was feeling her pain. The story depicts how a single decision can have leave such an impact in one’s life. This was a eye-opening, inspiring read.
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Amazon Customer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2020
A bit hard to get into at first due to grammatical errors but if you stick with it you can maybe understand why Mary stayed with her tormentor although some of my friends at book club could not ,an interesting book and one i look forward too reading others comments on
March 20, 2021
Was he ever happy with his life?
Was he ever happy with his life?
I believe he goes through very brief periods of what he perceives to be ‘happiness’ (e.g., financial support, new county, new house, new supply, etc.) but it’s a short-lived and ultimately hollow victory.
However, during the romanticism phase.... he would think to himself. “Maybe, this will drive away my emptiness!” .... and during the Honeymoon phase, he devoted virtually all our awake time to earning attention which was our life blood/nourishment/be all and end all life fuel. My boyfriend had full control and I was powerless.
Shortly thereafter was the inevitable let down.... so, our relationship would end sooner rather later, it was just a matter of time. He never loved me because he didn't know how. Knowing this was his greatest fear. Yet, he took the easiest road possible to satisfy his greedy needs, because for anything in the world, he must win the game, even he had to take some emotional risk. He was always in a hurry to let me to commit emotionally. At first he was amazing and I always paid full attention when he spoke, when he wrote, when he called me on the phone and wanted to understand the underlying nature of how things worked. I am a sympathetic, decent, and honest person by nature and put a weight on the importance of integrity. I wanted to love him, but I was not sure if it felt more like infatuation. For a weird reason, I felt both happy, and exhausted in my strange relationship with him.
He was like an addict, and always needed his next fix without a backward glance. Boredom was life-threatening and he could fade into nothingness as were he missing out something. I was only a project he wanted to change. He was never satisfied with what he had or what I could give him, so often I was not good enough for him. It was always a brief pleasure for him until he needed more. Nothing - and no one - was ever good enough for him. I also knew he was incapable of being alone. Yet he resented me due to his feeling dependent on me. Next, he believed I was a fraud, not him! In his opinion, I was often worthless, next I was his entire life. Then I was unlovable, and when he needed something from me I was the most loveable person he knew. But on the other hand he needed to always have a significant other in his life to have a feeling of stability. So, he allowed me to be in his life if he could benefit from me.
Happiness is an inside job as they say, but he was a hollow shell and always wanted to shake things up. He constantly was reinventing himself for me or every new audience we met on our path. He was a shapeshifter, admiring me, next, resenting me and he was extremely jealous at me. It caused chaos, drama, trauma, and paranoia, believing everyone was conspiring against him and talking about him in a disparaging way.
So how could he possibly feel good when he relied solely on external sources of esteem? “You steal from me.” Or “Why do you laugh at me?” or “It’s you who have bad intention with me!” he would say. Or suddenly it was me who was cheating or were dishonest, according to him. “You are a child in an adults’ body, not acting your age.”
Was he only wearing a mask and pretended to love me? Without his perfect and charming mask, he would for sure drive people and me away. On some abstract instinctive level, I was aware something was wrong, but I didn’t or rather I couldn’t see the many red flags.
How can anyone be happy destroying people’s lives? My life? My family’s life? Others life? The pain was so extreme...so deep.... it took my breath way, being on the edge of taking my life.
If that’s happiness, then I’m missing something.
Copyright © 2021 . All Rights Reserved . M. L. Stark
March 14, 2021
IT'S REALLY PAINFUL TO SEE A WOMEN CAUGHT IN A WEB OF HORRIBLE THINGS.
IT'S REALLY PAINFUL TO SEE A WOMEN CAUGHT IN A WEB OF HORRIBLE THINGS.
A story where the protagonist Mary, a pretty little doll was not aware about the upcoming disaster as she trusted and started dating a truly creepy sociopath.
📚BOOK REVIEW📚
Title - Burning Desire Part 1 : The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes
Author - M. L. Stark
5.466 visninger
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⭐ Can you imagine living with a partner who is a psychopath? How do you survive living with a psychopath?
I totally agree with the below phrase - "Psychopathy is the only mental disorder where it is not the patient, but the environment that suffers".
⭐This is one such story where the protagonist Mary, a pretty little doll was not aware about the upcoming disaster as she trusted and started dating a truly creepy sociopath Drake, a self-absorbed, lying person using people for his benefits. He preyed on Mary because he knew she had lot of money and that's all he was looking for. We all know, when we start attracting towards someone, we actually don't bother to know more and more about that person, everything seems perfect in the beginning and the same happened with Mary. Drake won her compassion and trust with his enormous intellect and charming personality but later she will realise that dating him was the biggest mistake of her life.
⭐ While reading this story, I kept my fingers crossed because it's really painful to see a women who was leading a normal life suddenly caught in a web of horrible things. I felt pity for Mary and for all those women who might have suffered the same. Being a female, I really felt a connection with the character Mary, i felt bad for her. Even though, the story is fictional, but it contains ideas based on real events because we can't deny, what was happening with Mary, it happens in reality too.
⭐ I really want this book to be read by every women, you all should be aware of this because I believe at least 4% of women in the world’s population can relate to the story. This is even a taboo subject but no woman dare to talk about it. I really appreciate M.L. Stark because at least through this story, she is talking about this thing and definitely trying to help women. The story is realistic and quite different from other stories which talks about psychopath and that's why I really liked this book and I am sure, if you are planning to grab your copy, you won't regret it.
March 13, 2021
In a flurry of lust mistaken for love with an international criminal, all bets on a safe, happy life are off.
In a flurry of lust mistaken for love with an international
criminal, all bets on a safe, happy life are off.
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UK Woman Depicts the Demise of Her Abusive Relationship with a Psychopathic Man in New Sequel
Author M. L. Stark shares a fictionalized account, based on real life events, of her abusive relationship and the harrowing adventures she endured across the globe in ‘Burning Desire Fades’
BOURNEMOUTH, England – In a flurry of lust mistaken for love with an international criminal, all bets on a safe, happy life are off. In the thrilling sequel to her book, “Burning Desire” author M. L. Stark recently published “Burning Desire Fades: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes." Stark shares her life events in a thrilling fiction story that follows the main character, Mary, as her chase for love engulfs her. She sacrifices her livelihood for toxic adventures with Doctor Drake Lucifer Bates that take them across the globe.
In “Burning Desire,” Mary’s toxic love story with Doctor Bates begins. Now, in “Burning Desire Fades," Mary is plagued with his constant deceit, abuse and lies as she and Drake bolt from country to country after his schemes and scams catch up to him. Financially bailing him out of messes, lying on his behalf, leaving her children behind and putting her life on the line for their future eventually catches up to Mary, and she must make the difficult decision to lose herself completely in love or leave him behind.
In a book review, Ramona Portelli expands on the thrilling nature of this story: “This book really kept me hooked on, turning from one page to another until I read it all. Well done to Author M.L. Stark who managed to plot all the story in this wonderful book. I really recommend Burning Desire Fades – The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes Part 2.”
Stark’s writing sheds light on psychological abuse and increases awareness of fake adoration, scammers and sociopaths. In this tale of the double-edged sword of love, readers will find the line between love and manipulation is anything but clear-cut.
“We need more awareness about the blindness in adoration and the fake love scammers and sociopaths use to mentally abuse others,” said Stark. “Living with a narcissist and a manipulative person is more than difficult to get through. My narcissist was not a monster or an evil creature, but he had a cruel agenda for me.”
At the end of the novel, Stark touches on relevant topics today such as cyberbullying and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is sharing her story to relate to women and men who are or have been in a toxic relationship. Stark hopes to bring awareness to emotional abuse and help readers decipher the red flags of an abusive partner before losing themselves in a false idea of love.
“Burning Desire Fades: The Psychopath and the Girl in Black Prada Shoes” By M. L. Stark ISBN: 978-1-6641-1258-2 (softcover); 978-1-6641-1259-9 (hardcover); 978-1-6641-1257-5 (e-book) Available at the Xlibris Online Bookstore - AMAZON and Barnes & Noble
About the author
M. L. Stark wrote the “Burning Desire” series based on experiences from her personal life. After a marriage of over 20 years, she was divorced and met a new man that mentally abused her and is now reflecting on that entire experience. In 2014, Stark began to research sociopathic behavior and along with her first-hand experience dating a psychopathic man, she began to write her story in 2016. By sharing her real life events in a fictionalized account, Stark hopes to connect with people and deter them from facing a toxic relationship in their lives. Currently, Stark resides in Bournemouth, Dorset. Please visit Stark’s author website: https://www.ml-stark.com
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13th March 2021
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March 06, 2021
I have often thought if he really believed he was a good person.
He was good and he was bad! Kind, well-respected and intelligent in the shape of a Doctor Jekyll type and meddles with his darker side transforming himself into his 'second' nature as a Mr. Hyde type. I am sure he knew he was a bad person as his evil alter ego doesn't repent or accept responsibility for his crimes and ways of life. And that he was fully aware of being immoral and was using people.
Quickly the special attention he pays me became intoxicating, so much so, that I got blinded to his inappropriate behaviour and suspicious actions – until it was too late and I was caught in his web. To him, I was the chosen one to serve the purpose of mirroring for him of what he so desperately needed to believe of himself and what he wished he had. Beneath the surface of our passionate love affair, something more sinister was lurking – I was dragged into his swindling, manipulation, and scams.
I wandered around in a daze sometimes trying to anticipate his next move, only to be chasing my tail most of the time. Anyone who challenged him on any topic he was not interested in hearing other than his answer. This eventually told me he must know he’s a wicked person.
At first, I thought I was blessed with a dream man. Then I saw the pain and suffering he caused in my lifetime weren’t normal for me or anyone.
Some of my mate's responses promptly came to the surface when I told him what I really felt about how miserably he treated me and how he mentally offended me. At some stage of my relationship with this crooked sloth, I knew he told me more about himself than what it told about me. Afterwards, I often got this in response when he was attacking me with his massive denial and rudeness:
- Such an idiot you are!
- You're making stuff up!
- You’re making a fool out of yourself!
- Shut up!
- You' re paranoid!
- That never happened!
My lover purposely enjoyed taunting me. Then he mirrored what I was saying. I could see it on his dirty smirk because he truly found it amusing until I couldn't cope anymore. I just wanted to tell him how I really felt about how he treated me when he went into his dark mood. As sweet and loving he could be, as evil he could show his mean shadowy side when he freaked out! He would never step aside, and nothing ever reached him. Instead, he got angry and smashed the ball back at my face. Then he snapped and yelled at me:
- You are such a psychopath!
- You are an ugly, piece of sh*t!
- You are such a wicked person!
- No one wants you!
- You want to hear what I really feel?
- You are a failure and crazy!
- Stop your lying sh*t!
One thing I couldn't pass by was his vindictiveness when I found out how he operated when he thought I was not watching. He was so vindictive. He only wanted to destroy me should anything good come my way. Especially when I no longer was a financial supporting item to him. Any happiness in my life must be destroyed in any way shape or form and there were no limits.
- I’ll destroy you!
- No one ever liked you!
- I’ll f*cking sue you and take everything!
- I only let you into my life of pity!
- I only f*cked you out of pity!
(Well, he hardly never f*cked me, because he was incapable.)
- You are getting on my nerves!
(Was that because he had to build lie after lie and it was exhausting for him!)
When I was crossing or outsmarting him in any way, it was always met with some form of mean action taken against me. I never could see it coming when I was falling into the dark rabbit hole, he had dug for me. Maybe I was hoping for some changes if I told him when he pained me, wishing he would change his behavior towards me in the future. I wanted him to understand. But he couldn’t understand. He never felt remorse. He never apologized. I still can't understand the logic of this even till today. Never have I ever thought of myself as a cruel person because I don't do things to hurt people.
Eventually I realized, the problem was not on my side of the fence. It was on his side. I don’t hate him, but I had to understand what was going through his head. In his mind, he can’t fail. He can’t lose the battle against me, so instead he started hating me. He wanted to win his smearing against me. It made him feel the power to control my life. After several years of emotional and financial trauma, losing everything in my life, my self-esteem, my family, and friends I found myself still trapped in his mesh.
It was not just the money he was seeking; it was also of a soul-less calculative approach to slowly criticise me an my life down to an empty shell.
I was so disappointed at him because he turned into everything, he during the love-bombing phase said he would never be. His horrific mental illness were always two steps ahead and I as his prey were and easy target because I was just not wired like him. Being of an empathetic and compassionated nature I had allowed him in. He slowly stripped me down, by telling me everything I wanted to hear, so I gave him the satisfaction of robbing my integrity, trust, and self-confidence. I used to consider myself a strong-willed woman, but in retrospect my experience with my lover sounds so weak and pathetic. My question was if he was ever real?
I was so disappointed at him because he turned into everything, he during the love-bombing phase said he would never be. His horrific mental illness were always two steps ahead and I as his prey were and easy target because I was just not wired like him. Being of an empathetic and compassionated nature I had allowed him in. He slowly stripped me down, by telling me everything I wanted to hear, so I gave him the satisfaction of robbing my integrity, trust, and self-confidence. I used to consider myself a strong-willed woman, but in retrospect my experience with my lover sounds so weak and pathetic. My question was if he was ever real?
In the end he failed! He no longer had the power to control my life when I started to sense the abuse and was no longer trusting his empty promises anymore. He could no longer gaslighting me into believing it was all my fault. So, he abandoned me after he had secured and enforced a strong bond with his new supply and love-bombed her into believing I was a crazy ex-girlfriend. Next, he recruited enough flying monkeys to slander about me, telling them he never knew of me. He knew he was hurting me and believed I couldn’t get back on my feet again and thought he could get away with it unharmed. I was in shock as he proceeded to push dagger after dagger in my already broken heart! When I came to my senses, he did everything for no none to believe me, because they already believed he was the poor victim and I was the one making his life horrible, as he told them that’s why he had to dump me.
I’ve learned the hard way, while he was building horrible lies about me and was deceiving others into taking his side. I felt emptied out and robbed! Even I was almost broke financially and emotionally after my acquaintance with him, I was starting over and were grateful that I could recover. The spineless coward couldn’t stand it because my success reminded him of his defeat. So, he continued year after year after our final brake to slander about me. He is all over the place, on every social medias, the entire internet and on my website to slander about me. Well, my previous lover had not broken me completely. I was healing my lost battles and came out stronger from my setbacks by regaining and take control over my life, and ignoring his slander and lies about me. I know who he truly is, and he will never change.
Copyright © 2021 . All Rights Reserved . M. L. Stark
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