How to Stop From Being Manipulated

Emotional manipulation is an important topic so I want to discuss it. I’m going to give you some of the different ways someone could be using abusive tactics on you. The goal is to educate yourself on these tactics, but also to start understanding the things within yourself that have allowed certain behaviors to go on in your relationships.

It is important to be able to recognize if someone is manipulating you; not just because it’s important to not tolerate abuse, but also to know when you are around someone who uses manipulation and why you are allowing it.

It is important to learn the tactics that manipulative people use to get what they want from you. At the end of the day, you have to learn what is going on inside of yourself that causes you to allow someone to abuse you. It is important to learn what abuse looks like and what you need to do within yourself to make sure you don’t allow abuse at all in your life. Learning to love yourself and to protect yourself is very important.

Guilt, Blame, Shame

Guilt, blame and shame go together as the number one tactic emotional abusers use. You’ll hear things like — “If you don’t do this for me, I can’t do that for you,” “I thought you cared about me,” and “Why won’t you do it for me? I would do it for you.” These phrases are said after you have said no to…