How to Identify People With Manipulative Behavior

Odang Emmanuel🐘
2 min readFeb 11, 2023

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People with manipulative behavior are pretenders who are very good at deception. Manipulative people are everywhere. They seem to be sincere and respectful but act this way in other to take advantage of others. People with manipulative behavior might twist what you say and make it about them or make you feel like you have done something wrong when you’re not even sure.

Here are how you can identify people with manipulative behavior:

  1. Manipulative people don’t take responsibility for their actions; they’ll rather blame others.
  2. Manipulative people request for little favor, only to follow up later with their own big request.
  3. What they said and what they do are contradictory.
  4. They do whatever, they can to keep you feeling confused and weak so that they can have their own way.
  5. They pretend to be concerned about what you’re going through but later undermine your decisions and confidence.
  6. They’re relentless in getting what they want and never bothered even when others get hurt in the process.
  7. People with manipulative behavior do all they can to remain in charge to make sure they are not found out especially when they’re lying.
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Above all, manipulative behavior is incredibly unhealthy. Some people may not even aware that, they are manipulative while others are. The best way to identify if someone is trying to manipulate you or has manipulative behavior is to observe such individual. If such individual say something and do something else. Again, when you’re not sure of what you believe and stand for, someone with manipulative behavior will manipulate you.

Thank you for reading all the way through!

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Odang Emmanuel🐘
Odang Emmanuel🐘

Written by Odang Emmanuel🐘

I write what my readers need and aim to tell them what they didn't know.

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