Emotional manipulation is where an individual uses exploitative and dishonest tactics to
gain control over someone else.
A healthy relationship usually involves mutual cooperation and understanding between two
individuals.
However, in the case where there is emotional manipulation, one individual will take advantage
of the other person's weaknesses to control or even victimize them.
People can be manipulative at times, like when trying to convince someone to buy a defective
or inferior product.
However, there is a difference between a normal healthy relationship and emotional manipulation.
Emotional manipulation occurs when the manipulation is habitual.
It is indeed hard to notice when someone is manipulating you, so don’t blame yourself
if you find out that someone has all along been manipulating you.
At the end of the day, the manipulator is to blame.
So, how can you tell if someone is manipulating you?
Keep watching to find out the signs of emotional manipulation.
They Want You At Their Realm Manipulative people always want to maintain
the home advantage.
They will want you to be in their territory and will do anything within their power to
ensure you spend as much time in their realm.
They know that when you are on your home turf, you will have more power in terms of thinking
and expressing yourself.
As a result, they will want you to always be in their space, to have an upper hand.
They Let You Speak First Another surprising trait of people who are
manipulative, is that they always let their victims speak first.
They don’t do this because they value your opinion and freedom of expression but because
they want to use your words against you.
When an individual wants you to speak first, they want to establish control.
They want to know your answers to manipulate your thoughts.
They Want To Know Your Weaknesses Emotional manipulators always want to know
your weakness in order to use them against you.
Knowing your weak spots will give them an opportunity to know what makes you vulnerable,
and to take advantage of it to lower your self-confidence and esteem.
So, be careful in letting someone know your inner secrets and weaknesses.
They Love Playing The Victim
Another common trait about emotional manipulators is that they love playing the victim.
They will do something wrong or bad to you or someone else, and make you feel like you
are the one who has wronged them.
They will put blame on you to hide their real intentions.
If you have been in a situation where you know that the person was wrong, but he or
she tries to turn things to make you feel sorry for them, then that is a clear sign
that the individual is an emotional manipulator.
They tend to be very defensive and always blame others for their own mistakes.
They Are Pathological Liars Emotional manipulators are very good at lying.
Lying does not only mean that the person tells you something that is not true.
It is also about deceiving and leaving you in the dark.
They are pathological liars and will always want you to believe what they say and do what
they think is good.
They can and will fabricate lies easily to manipulate you into believing what they are
saying.
Even if you confront them when you discover they lied, they will not own up.
They will turn it against you to make you freel bad.
They Love Drama Manipulators love drama.
They love putting other people in uncomfortable or helpless situations.
For instance, when you have a disagreement, they will start yelling at you even when in
public to crush your self-esteem and confidence.
They know that raising their voice over yours, will make them feel more powerful and that
will increase their dominance over you.
So, if they know you don’t like public attention, they will do the exact opposite and embarrass
you in public.
They Love Engaging In Intellectual Bullying Emotional manipulators love engaging in bullying.
For instance, if you ask them a question, they will overwhelm you with facts, statistics,
and difficult terms to try to confuse you.
They take advantage of you by telling you a lot of unnecessary facts and jargon words,
that you may know little about.
This mostly occurs in sales and marketing situations when an individual will use his
or her knowledge to manipulate you in order to achieve their desired outcome.
They will make you feel that they know everything, portraying themselves to be an expert when
they really are not.
They Are Always Kidding When They Upset You Emotional manipulators are fond of saying
“just kidding”, when they say something that really hurt you.
They will pretend that they didn’t mean what they said, even when in reality they
meant what they said.
They will say very rude or mean things and make it look like it was just a joke.
Are you experiencing any of these signs of emotional manipulation from an emotional manipulator?
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