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Manipulation

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A clever manipulation tactic that makes you believe you are the problem

  • March 2, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Control, Crazymaking, deception, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, lying, Manipulation
There’s a clever manipulation that can happen in some emotionally abusive relationships. It starts with superficial kindness and vague promises and leads to blameshifting and avoiding true accountability. This...
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How emotional abuse can enter your life like an infection

  • February 14, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Manipulation, Relationships
Emotional abuse can be like an infection that enters your body. You may not know it’s there until a lot of time has passed, and you’ve invested a lot...
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Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you

  • March 31, 2023
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships, Religious Abuse, Shame
Your religious or spiritual beliefs are supposed to help uplift and inspire you, not make you feel oppressed and exhausted. Religious abuse happens when people who claim to love...
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The battles that drain your power

  • December 23, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Relationships
The emotionally abusive relationship can be a battle. In fact, it can be a series of battles that wear you down and eventually wear you out. But at what...
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What will it take to finally get them to stop?

  • December 7, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Manipulation, Relationships
The person that hurts the one they love can do the behavior indefinitely unless someone is there to stop it. Usually, that someone has to be you. Stopping it...
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Can depression be used for manipulation?

  • April 20, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Control, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Relationships
There can be some good excuses for hurtful behavior. With some excuses, it can be hard to differentiate between fact and fiction.  When someone uses their condition or illness...
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Is telling them you’re leaving better than just leaving?

  • December 1, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships
What’s the best course of action when it comes to leaving the emotional abuser? Should you sit them down and have the “the talk”? Or is talking going to...
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The type of person that doesn’t deserve a second chance

  • October 22, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Physical Abuse, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
How bad does it have to get before you’re convinced that the person you’re dealing with is never, ever going to change? And how much more hurtful behavior has...
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Who are you when you’re not in a toxic relationship?

  • July 30, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Emotional Abuse, Guilt, Manipulation, Narcissism, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
Every wonderful aspect of you can diminish when you are with a toxic person. They find ways to convince you that you are unworthy and unlovable so that you...
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Is there an easy way to help someone understand they are being emotionally abusive?

  • July 11, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships
If you told a “normal” person they were being emotionally abusive, you’d think they’d back off and re-evaluate their behavior. After all, people who care about you don’t want...
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