30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships

By: Adelyn Birch

Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix

Length: 54 mins

Publisher's Summary

Learn the manipulator's game, so they can't play it with you. 

Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes.

You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.

This book is geared toward romantic relationships, including those involving a pathological partner. Even so, many of the manipulation tactics are the same as those used by family members, coworkers, friends and others.

Covert emotional manipulation tactics are underhanded methods of control. Emotional manipulation methodically wears down your self-worth and damages your trust in your own perceptions. It can make you unwittingly compromise your personal boundaries and lose your self-respect and even lead to a warped concept of yourself and of reality. With your defenses weakened or completely disarmed in this manner, you are left even more vulnerable to further manipulation and psychological harm.

Empower yourself and get your life back!

©2014 Adelyn Birch (P)2018 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

This book can change your life!

After more than a year of psychotherapy I still didn't know why I felt so insecure with my boyfriend of four years. It seemed like I was sabotaging the relationship, and I couldn't stop no matter how hard I tried. I was having emotional meltdowns I couldn't explain and I felt like I couldn't trust him. My therapist said I had an insecure attachment style but that didn't feel right because I'd never been that way before. I began searching for an answer that made sense and I stumbled upon this book, thank God, because the truth of the matter was revealed: my boyfriend was using just about every manipulation tactic in this book on me. I felt immediate relief and a sense of peace because I learned I wasn't crazy---my emotions were being manipulated. Now I'm free, and I can't thank the author enough! If you're feeling perplexed by the problems in your relationship, get this book. It can change your life.

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Smooth Operators Exposed

What made the experience of listening to 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships the most enjoyable?

Its an eye opener.

What was one of the most memorable moments of 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships?

Those things that they do saying i'm just like you which they arent.

Which scene was your favorite?

Most of them.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships?

Also watch out for the ones who covertly say, i'm like you too.

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Deaf Tone

The information was fine but the way it was presented seemed more aggressive than need be. I appreciate the content but again not someone I might readily follow instruction from. As far as story, did I miss the story? I didn’t hear one. Great assist with naming other titles to look up.

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Wish it was longer!

Very direct and to the point. Enlightening! This book really needs to be expanded with more examples of manipulation (such as the detailed list of invalidating statements) along with ways to counteract each manipulation tactic.

Basic, yet key, tenets to living with people

An excellent self-check and recalibration to evaluating your feelings to the behavior to others. Questions to ask yourself when you are troubled in a relationship. It is all part of the tool box of living with others in relationship.

Everyone is a Covert Emotional Manipulator

I have a sibling in a VERY destructive relationship and wanted to get this book for him. Well since hes not what you would call a avid reader i decided to download the audible version before I mailed him a paperback.

I am glad I did. I will not be purchasing the paperback. EVER

If you want to justify leaving any relationship this is the book for you. Everything from insulting someone, consoling someone, or trying to cheer them up makes the other person a manipulator. As for what to do ... leave.

I tried stuck with it until the loss of new love in exchange for familiarity became a manipulation akin to starving a rat to death.

Good luck if you purchase this. So I could only take 30 minutes of this and the reader was good.

Overview sounds like a college paper looking for a word count.

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Waste of money.

Would you try another book from Adelyn Birch and/or Kitty Hendrix?

For what this ebook charges, you couldn't find a bigger waste of money. Generalizations in a less than hour long book is more of a flyer than a book. Audible should have made it vlear this is an over generalisation of a topic one expects to be explored in some detail.

Any additional comments?

How do I get a credit easily?

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Too short!

People who are really stuck in bad relationships are going to need a little more information and examples to help them break free. A powerful story or set of examples would much more effective. Stories get remembered. This book is unfortunately more like a college lecture, summarizing basic ideas.

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