Eight Ways to Protect Yourself from Emotional Manipulation
My personal favorite as recentlywitnessed right here on our front page:
They can try.
4. Guilt. Emotional manipulators are excellent guilt mongers. They can make you feel guilty for speaking up or not speaking up, for being emotional or not being emotional enough, for giving and caring, or for not giving and caring enough. Any thing is fair game and open to guilt with an emotional manipulator. Emotional manipulators seldom express their needs or desires openly they get what they want through emotional manipulation. Guilt is not the only form of this but it is a potent one. Most of us are pretty conditioned to do whatever is necessary to reduce our feelings of guilt. Another powerful emotion that is used is sympathy. An emotional manipulator is a great victim. They inspire a profound sense of needing to support, care for and nurture. Emotional Manipulators seldom fight their own fights or do their own dirty work. The crazy thing is that when you do it for them (which they will never ask directly for), they may just turn around and say they certainly didnt want or expect you to do anything! Try to make a point of not fighting other peoples battles, or doing their dirty work for them. A great line is I have every confidence in your ability to work this out on your own check out the response and note the bullshit meter once again.
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Wow, Guilt, the gift that keeps on giving...
Been there, done that. Passive aggression at it's finest.
Pointing fingers can get ugly. Maybe we should look at our own behavior before we do it.
Excellent advice!!
I got something for those manipulators to manipulate.
Wipe that smile off your face Grump.
But, remember, when pointing fingers, you still have three pointing back at you.
I think that we all have to look inside ourselves to see what we do that may manipulate others... So, your advice is excellent!
You seldom see me pointing fingers.