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Navigating Emotional Manipulation: Recognize Tactics

24 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("Navigating Emotional Manipulation: Recognize Tactics") in which Amber Hollingsworth and another speaker discuss how people close to us use guilt as a manipulative tactic. They note that close contacts "know your buttons" and can frame stories or events to provoke guilt, producing compliance mixed with resentment.

When you feel like you're being forced into something that you don't really want.
To do because you feel guilty, because you feel.
Sorry for someone because of something like that, and you have this resentment, but you.
Also have this other.
Guilt feeling that's more than most likely a manipulative tactic on their point, because they know what your buttons are. With the people close to us, we all know what their buttons are. So we know how to hitch a story or tell an event in a way that's going to make the other person the most.
Agreeable.
To whatever the situation is.