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The Battle You Didn't Choose: Unraveling Emotional Blackmail

Have you ever felt emotionally pressured to the point of forgetting your personal needs and priorities? Do you feel like you are always on the defensive, trying to protect your emotional boundaries? Do you find it hard to say no and maintain your personal boundaries, despite feeling bad about it?

Every day you find yourself in situations where someone, consciously or unconsciously, manipulates your emotions. From the co-worker who always gets you to finish their work to that friend who always seems to have a meltdown when you need some time to yourself. These situations are called emotional blackmail and often leave us feeling helpless, with a sense of loss of control over our own lives.

Emotional Blackmail: A Misunderstood Approach

There are many books that try to address this problem, but often, they tend to focus on how to deal with emotional blackmailers. However, this is not the complete solution to the problem. Dealing with the blackmailer is only part of the equation. The other part, and the most crucial part, is learning how to strengthen your personal boundaries and how to say no without feeling guilty.

For example, many books offer advice on how to identify and deal with the tactics of emotional manipulators, but what happens when these tactics are so ingrained in our daily interactions that we barely notice them?