Relationships involving at least one sociopathic partner have a tendency to turn abusive. Sociopathic partners display characteristics, such as extreme jealousy, emotional withdrawal, lack of intimacy, sexual coercion, verbal abuse, infidelity, threats, lies, broken promises, discord, mind games, and control struggles. Sociopaths will continue to remain abusive towards their partners with verbal and physical abuse escalating until the lives are endangered. Abusers will often have experienced the same trauma-based adaptations to childhood emotional, psychological, and physical abuse. Abusive relationships exist in all forms, including heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, and transgendered relationships and should be taken seriously at all costs.