10 Signs of a Husband with Sadistic Personality Traits

This video answers the questions: What are the signs of a husband with sadistic traits? What is a sadistic personality?

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If someone has sadistic traits, they have a tendency to engage in demeaning, antagonistic, or cruel behaviors with the purpose of experiencing pleasure, excitement, satisfaction, and/or to assert dominance.

There are three types behaviors associate with sadism:
1. verbal sadism: pleasure is gained through embarrassing or humiliating others
2. physical: physically hurting others
3. vicarious: pleasure is gained through fantasizing or observing violence

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