
So, let me tamp down your expectations a bit. With that set up, it might sound like I’m about to give you a fully satisfying answer to that question. If you’re a reasonable person, you would never do or say the things the drama person does. One of my favorite writers likes to say, “He fell out of the jackass tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

Just as I suspected, his mental elevator actually doesn’t go all the way to the top.” It’d be nice, wouldn’t it, if we could strap that drama person into an MRI, scan his brain and say, “There it is, right there.

They dump sand into our mental transmissions and leave us stranded aside the relational road wondering: Indeed, most of us are bewildered by drama people.

Lundy Bancroft once wrote a book entitled Why Does He Do That? in which he attempts to explain the psyches of abusive men. Drama people are nothing if not perplexing.
