Eight Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation

@bassingbourne55 wrote:

I found the original post interesting, but there is another side. As well as the Emotional Manipulator there has to be a type of person who is particularly susceptable to their tactics – the emotional manipulatee, shall we say.

Emotional manipulatees tend to internalise all the things that happen to them. They make excuses for other peoples’ bad behaviour towards them, to justify why they should accept such behaviour. Emotional manipulatees are good at turning a blind eye and at turning the other cheek

We are probably all both emotional manipulator and emotional manipulatee to some degree at some time or other, but when either trait gets serious or people of the two polarities get involved with each other, it spells disaster.

The crucial difference is that emotional manipulators are bad people whereas manipulatees are not.

reads like battered wife scenario to me. he beats her sensless she makes excuses for him she goes back and he beats her again. round and round it goes till she or he die…
its the same when child abusers manipulate their victims with threats and sugar coated lies.