Professor Paul Mullen
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first heard Jul 2006
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even went round with this young man to serenade the girl he was to marry.
They all stood outside of our house, the whole family.
It was quite a large family, actually, singing and bringing gifts, which was somewhat distressing to the poor girl who really didn't know who this bloke was other than he was a strange man who'd been following her and sending her unwanted bunches of flowers.
We now live in a society of serial monogamy.
People move in and out of relationships, particularly in their teens and twenties.
And every time any intimate relationship of any seriousness ends, there's a risk that one partner is going to be really very upset about this.
And that then, if they have the right or the wrong characteristics, may lead to stalking.
So very dependent individuals and occasionally very narcissistic, arrogant individuals are just not going to accept someone else ending the relationship.
The next thing, I think, is the resentful stalkers.
There's a lot of people who find coping with the complexities of the work environment, the nature of modern society, very difficult.
They're told they have a whole mass of rights and, you know, they have a right for this and a right to that and a right to t'other.
But, in fact, they find
that they remain powerless and find it very difficult to actually cope with what they see as injustice and what they see as rejection and humiliation.
And this group will take the law into their own hands in a way and try and wreak revenge.
on the doctor who's disappointed them, the lawyer who they feel has cheated them, the bank manager who's refused the mortgage, the man next door who won't move his rubbish, etc., etc., etc.
So we see people acting from a sense of injustice and beginning to get into stalking to strike back at those they blame for their own problems.
The other group we see is the incompetent suitors.
There's a lot of lonely, incompetent men out there...
who in the old days used to be fixed up by their relatives, but not no longer.
When I was a lad, when I went to dances, my mother and my aunt would insist I took one of my less socially able cousins with me, and everyone else had to take their less socially able relis, and you sort of fixed them up with each other.
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