There will always be warning signs, and if you pay attention to the right signals, you can spot them early and protect your peace before losing yourself. By the time you realise what’s going on, you ...

Chronic manipulators thrive on relationships, using them as fuel to exercise power and control over others. Though their manipulation is geared toward personal gain, it functions on being able to ...

The most powerful response is far more destabilizing to the manipulator's strategy: emotional non-cooperation. Calmly, neutrally, and consistently refusing to feed the emotional leverage, you take ...

You can't always get what you want, but manipulative people sure will throw out all of the stops to try. Guilt-tripping is a ...

Manipulators excel at twisting your emotions around and making you feel that you need to explain yourself, defend yourself, ...

Recent research has analyzed the benefits of manipulation in hopes of teasing out the differences between “harmless” manipulation and “harmful” manipulation. Most social interactions involve some form ...

Tension: You’ve stopped caring, and they know it—but that’s when the real manipulation begins. Noise: You’re flooded with second guesses—“Am I the bad one now?” “Why are they suddenly being so nice?” ...