When I think of someone who is controlling, I usually think of people engaging in the more overt and emotionally abusive tactics like threatening, isolating, blaming, humiliating, acting possessive, obsessively monitoring someone to extreme degrees, and taking away someone’s ability to choose for themselves. That’s not the type of control I’m talking about in this chapter. The type of control I’m referencing here is my desire to keep myself and those I love from experiencing hardships and heartbreaks.
