The Sneaky Phrases Toxic People Use to Manipulate You
Stop letting them pull your strings. If you notice someone saying these things to you, it’s time to walk away.
Our relationships are electric, charged with energy and emotion that can move to impossible highs and heartbreaking lows. The quality of our relationships depends on the quality of the people we pick to be a part of them. Pick healthy partners or friends and you get a healthy connection. Pick mean-spirited, malicious, or manipulative people and terrible results ensue.
Bad relationships don’t always look bad, but they always feel bad.
If you feel insecure, overwhelmed, or terrified in the connection you share with someone, it’s important to look at the way they communicate with you.
Do you feel heard? Do you feel like the other person listens and shares their feelings and true intentions with you? Or do you feel you’re having your strings pulled? Does it feel like the other person is using their words to avoid accountability? To make you feel smaller than you are?
Pay close attention to the words that are being used around you and against you. When tangled with a toxic person, they could use subtle and sneaky phrases to make you feel insecure and less important than you…
