Emotional Manipulation: Recognizing, Coping, and Protecting Yourself

Emotional manipulation includes behavior that emotionally exploits, influences, or controls a target victim.

Such as, emotional manipulators seek to influence you in a way that benefits them, while harming you.

We review some common forms of emotional manipulation, how to recognize them, and what you can do next.

1. They Always Twist Things (Gaslighting)

The manipulator muddles the waters to hide his abuse and make you lose sight of what’s true and fair

Some red flags of gasli...