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Manipulation

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If you leave me, I'll kill myself - The ultimate abuse of your empathy and compassion

  • September 25, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, deception, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Confronting the ultimate manipulation in a relationship, the threat of suicide is a very troubling and often abusive tactic. It’s a scenario that traps an empathetic, caring individual in...
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Don't show them how crazy you feel and sharing custody with the emotional abuser

  • August 7, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Children, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Emotional abusers can make you feel crazy. They will convince you you’ve said things you didn’t say, they’ll remind you about conversations you’ve never had, and they may purposefully...
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Have they really changed or are they faking it? Learning to differentiate between true change and acting.

  • May 27, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • deception, Emotional Abuse, lying, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
When someone in your life claims to have changed and promises to stop behaving badly, have they truly changed, or are they just pretending? Telling the difference between the...
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Emotionally abusive isolation and how it ensures you lose your friends, family, and support system

  • May 6, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Isolation occurs when someone wants to keep you from your friends, family, and support structures. You will become more dependent on the one who is isolating you, causing you...
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There is nothing you could have done differently, emotional abuse would have happened anyway

  • April 10, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
Many emotional abuse victims believe they are at fault for the abuse as if there is something they did to bring it on. The short answer is there is...
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How you enable manipulative and controlling behavior by being your wonderful self

  • March 27, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-worth
When you are kind, generous and caring, and you get controlling and manipulative behavior in return, you may be the very cause of perpetuating it without even realizing it....
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Yes, there are people that know how to control you and steal your power

  • March 23, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
We are often told that we can choose how to feel and that no one can actually control us. However, in emotional abuse and manipulation, that concept doesn’t seem...
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The narcissist under the hood - The difficulty of explaining emotional abuse to friends and family

  • March 15, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • deception, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, lying, Manipulation, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships
One of the biggest challenges for someone dealing with a manipulative or narcissistic partner is that others don’t see what happens behind closed doors. The manipulator often appears kind...
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Are you with a manipulative person?

  • March 13, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, deception, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, lying, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Would you know if you were being manipulated? Do you know what to look for? Manipulative people are experts at toxic language and behavior to make you question reality...
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The texts after the breakup: When breadcrumbing keeps you from reaching closure

  • March 12, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • breadcrumbing, Control, Dating, deception, Emotional Abuse, influence, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Some people have a strange way of showing they care by sending you small messages out of the blue to get you to think about them. However, as much...
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