Ridding Yourself of Being A Manipulator to Better Your
Relationships
One of the oldest character flaws in humans is their ability to
manipulate each other. Its insidious nature tilts our everyday
playing field toward the manipulator. The manipulating person
has a basic personality flaw that has a direct link to control,
but primarily the ever-abundant insecurity issue.
So, how is it that we deal with these types of people to level
the perverbial playing field?
Well, for a moment, lets just consider the problematic issues
that these types of people have so as to better understand what
approach to take.
In being manipulative, one would only need to look at the why
and what, not the how, because the how is obvious. How do they
do it? They use words as their arsenal for control.
One should understand that manipulative people are generally
control freaks who need to have the people they attempt to
control conform to their ideology. By leveraging control over a
particular situation, they satisfy the craving to fill that void
of not having personal control, therefore obtaining it from
another person.
It is quite obvious that always trying to tilt the scales for
yourself by being manipulative reflects a security problem in
yourself. It