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“Emotional manipulation methodically wears down your self-worth and self-confidence, and damages your trust in your own perceptions. It can make you unwittingly compromise your personal values, which leads to a loss of self-respect and a warped self concept. With your defenses weakened or completely disarmed in this manner, you are left even more vulnerable to further manipulation. A”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“The stages of the psychopathic bond are what describes emotional rape, which is devastating to victims, and who may find little understanding or support from those who are close to them.”
― Ab Admin, 202 Ways To Spot A Psychopath In Personal Relationships

“it’s not always that easy, because manipulators count on strong emotions – such as guilt, fear, love, and shame – to prevent us from thinking clearly and seeing what they’re up to. That’s exactly how they get away with it. They often create these emotions for that reason.”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“Why do manipulators do it? There are several reasons, and none of them are good. A psychopathic manipulator has to fulfill strong needs for control, power, and superiority. They will also manipulate for material gain. Some simply grow bored and see manipulation as a game, one that’s played at your expense.”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War”
― Ab Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“Fear is a primal emotion that has the power to rob us of our ability to think rationally.”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“Manipulators are willing to advance their own purposes and personal gain, no matter what the cost is to someone else.”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“Part Two -- Red Flags   Chapter Five: Red Flags of a Psychopath   artist unknown   Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Buddha”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“Our emotional needs include: The need to be acknowledged. The need to be accepted. The need to be listened to. The need to be understood. The need to be loved. The need to be appreciated. The need to be respected. The need to be valued. The need to feel worthy. The need to be trusted. The need to feel capable and competent. The need to feel clear (not confused). The need to be supported. The need to be safe, both physically and emotionally.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“you are the one who needs to have your own best interest at heart.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“These exploitative relationships form a trauma bond, a highly addictive attachment to a person who is hurting you. A person in a trauma bond is essentially addicted to a relationship with someone who is destructive and hurtful. Signs of a trauma bond include the inability to detach and self-destructive denial. Writer”
― A.B. Admin, 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” ~Henri Nouwen”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“Assertiveness is communicating in a direct and honest way. That's all it is. • Boundaries communicate what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior from others. That's all they are.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow." ~ Leo Tolstoy”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“I call them New Age Bullies — those who, sometimes with the best intentions, repeat spiritual movement shibboleths, with little understanding of how hurtful their advice can be. Some of their favorite clichés are: It happened for a reason. Nobody can hurt you without your consent. I wonder why you created this illness (or experience). There are no accidents. There are no victims. There are no mistakes. A variant of this behavior is found in the self-bullying people who blame themselves for being victims of a crime, accident, or illness and interpret such misfortunes as evidence of their personal defects or spiritual deficiencies.”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“If we're afraid to have boundaries, it means we care more about what others think of us than what we think about ourselves. In doing so we lose respect for ourselves, and our self-esteem suffers. Others lose respect for us, too.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“Abuse usually begins insidiously and worsens as a relationship progresses. Abusers gradually wear down their victim’s boundaries, and as a result the victim tolerates violations they never would have before.”
― A.B. Admin, Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

“When the mask drops, the person you thought he was disappears.  He will look quite different, and any illusion of normalcy will be gone. You will immediately “know” that he is predator, and nothing more than that. He may also come across as blatantly lecherous. You will experience what it is to be prey. The moment you realize he is a predator, you’ll know that everything else – everything else—was merely window dressing, smoke and mirrors, fluff.  That was the sheep’s clothing, and this is the wolf beneath. If you're lucky he puts the mask back on, along with the charm that comes with it. But you will never be the same.”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow." ~ Leo Tolstoy”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“Psychopaths are social predators who are born without a conscience and without the ability to feel love, compassion, fear or remorse. Psychopaths experience the lack of these abilities and emotions as indication that they are superior, and they consider us nothing more than prey to be hunted to fulfill their own needs. The psychopath considers life a game to be played and "won" at the expense of others. Inflicting harm, whether it be psychological, spiritual, physical or financial, is entertainment to them. Self-gratification is the only thing that motivates them and all that they live for. Psychopaths play their game primarily to fulfill their insatiable desires for power and control.”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love

“One mustn't look into the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexplicable charm which attracts us. ~ Gustave Flaubert”
― A.B. Admin, Psychopaths and Love