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Emotional Blackmail by Susan Forward   -> When the People in Your Life        -> Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt             -> to Manipulate YouBook DescriptionDo important people in your life:Threaten to make your life difficult or end your relationship if you don’t do what they want?Label you as selfish, bad, greedy, unfeeling, or uncaring when you don’t give in to their demands?Shower you with approval when you give in to them and take it away when you don’t?Regularly discount your feelings and wants?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. In her clear, no-nonsense style, Forward provides powerful, practical strategies for blackmail targets, including checklists, practice scenarios and concrete communications techniques that will strengthen relationships and break the blackmail cycle for good. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the AuthorSusan Forward, bestselling author of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, tells you how to break the emotional blackmail cycle, first by presenting a clear understanding of the damaged relationship, then by offering you an arsenal of tools to fight back with. These powerful, practical weapons-including checklists, practice scenarios, and communications techniques- will strengthen relationships and put an end to the pain and confusion of emotional blackmail.