What It’s Like To Ride Shotgun With a Psychopath Your Whole Life

Amy Punt
7 min readJun 14, 2022
profile of right hand in the center of a black void.
Photo by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash

I loved my mother with blinding love. I loved my mother so much it hurt. I just didn’t realize how much it was hurting me until it was almost too late.

Trigger warning, content contains passing reference to sexual assault and abuse.

Psychopaths are rare. Current estimates put the percentage rate among adults at 1.2 percent…

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Amy Punt

Writing about Personal Growth, Trauma, Recovery and the cultural moments that reflect our hidden traumas.