30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships
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Kitty Hendrix
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Adelyn Birch
About this listen
Learn the manipulator's game, so they can't play it with you.
Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes.
You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.
This book is geared toward romantic relationships, including those involving a pathological partner. Even so, many of the manipulation tactics are the same as those used by family members, coworkers, friends and others.
Covert emotional manipulation tactics are underhanded methods of control. Emotional manipulation methodically wears down your self-worth and damages your trust in your own perceptions. It can make you unwittingly compromise your personal boundaries and lose your self-respect and even lead to a warped concept of yourself and of reality. With your defenses weakened or completely disarmed in this manner, you are left even more vulnerable to further manipulation and psychological harm.
Empower yourself and get your life back!
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- Jacqueline LaBlonde
- 2020-06-10
Pretty good for couple relationships
This book wasn't bad. its primarily referring to couple relationships. A good beginning, brief book for men or women in confusing relationships.
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- Juicy
- 2021-05-31
Ever get played again
Well written. Allows one to see how he/she might be manipulated . Definitely worth reading / listening to .
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- Ontario 2 NS Woman
- 2020-04-29
Nothing new
There wasn't a single thing in this book I didn't already know from just a bit of reading free articles on the internet. Save your money.
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