Emotional Blackmail

When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You

By: Susan Forward, Donna Frazier (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 4 March 1998

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A practical guide to better communication that will break the blackmail cycle for good, by one of the nation''s leading therapists, Susan Forward.

“Breathe a sigh of relief! Susan Forward helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with those you love. I highly recommend this important book!"—Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

"If you really loved me..."

"After all I''ve done for you..."

"How can you be so selfish..."

Do any of the above sound familiar? They''re all examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and coworkers, our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to give themselves the payoff they want: our compliance.

Susan Forward knows what pushes our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the communications gap between the sexes in Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and Harriet Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in The Dance of Anger, so Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back.

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Breathe a sigh of relief! Susan Forward helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with those you love. I highly recommend this important book!--Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
"A helpful book!...[it] makes a whole lot of sense for the person who feels controlled by someone else's needs, whines, and threats."--Detroit Free Press

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