This is murder in the morning with Tony Bruske and Stacey Cole.

Today we are pulling back the curtain on the unsettling psychology behind some of the most

infamous relationships in true crime and maybe even ourselves will do a little digging and dive

deep into those subtle yet terrifying red flags.

Had someone noticed, could have changed everything, maybe.

We're not just talking about obvious abuse here.

We're peeling back the layers on those quietly sinister behaviors that kind you

brush off until you're suddenly at the center of a dateline special.

Licensed marriage and family therapist, Sonnet Daymont, is here to talk us through how

emotional abuse quietly takes root escalates and how to spot it long before tragedy makes

the headlines. Sonnet, there's so many cases to talk about cases like Lori Valo-Dabell or many.

When it starts one way and ends in a completely different area, is there a hidden psychological

architecture, something systematic, may be predictable that fuels an abusers journey from

charm to violence?

There are certain red flags that you can pull up that happen rather regularly with

narcissistic abuse or dark triad relationships that tend to be a little different than when someone's just emotionally

immature and you're having a hard time in a lot of conflicts.

And that's a big thing because so the word narcissist gets thrown out a lot and there's obviously

a huge difference between we all have narcissistic traits to narcissistic personality disorder

and the dark triad and cluster B

personalities and all that fun stuff. But where is that line? I mean, obviously someone needs to go in

and be diagnosed if you're going to officially get the fun title of narcissistic personality disorder.

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