Emotional blackmail
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When the people in your life use fear, [obligation], and guilt to manipulate you. It is a very powerful form of manipulation in which the person directly or indirectly threatens to [punish] you if you dont [compile] with how they want you to behave.
Some examples of things Emotional Blackmailers say are: If you really loved me... After all Ive done for you... How can you be so selfish... -
A form of [blackmail] that usually doesnt affect you directly, however makes you feel guilty if you do not do what the [blackmailer] wants.
Emotional blackmail often happens when someone refuses to be the [blackmailers] boyfriend/girlfriend.
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the act of using a persons feelings of kindness, sympathy, or duty in order to persuade them to do something or feel something:
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