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Ever accused of manipulating situations or even people? Telling a lie to cover up a mistake (probably due to a manic phase) only to have to keep lying until you are screwed?
This happens way to often for me. Especially the lying. I think lying and being manipulative go hand in hand.
This happens way to often for me. Especially the lying. I think lying and being manipulative go hand in hand.
DOH!
manipulation is just what it is. people are these strange creatures that do as they please to get ahead of themselves and everybody else and if manipulating is ever available to them then thats what they do because its all about them and their own personal world.
I agree with this, what krisskat said. I think lying for this reason is pretty shitty but i cerrtainly realize i am a minority, since i do not look to manipulate people. i don't typically make friends, cuz i thinking about what they can do for me. i won't say i've never lied, i'm sure i have at some points. perhaps to spare someones feelings. "yes, i like your haircut" something like that. maybe once, i said it wasn't my dog that kicked up your mulch. and my friend covered for me. big bad stuff like that.
Now as for manipulation....does saying to my husband "Do you know how much I love you?" And he says let me guess...you need cigarettes.....LOL! Guessing you would call that manipulative.
Well, there's a lot about me that people don't need to know. They don't need to know about the bipolar or my dozens of jobs or many broken relationships, or even all of the cool thangs that have gone on in my life.
I've learned to be more private and if that means a protective or deflective bending of the truth, or even an honest damned lie, so be it.
What I find interesting is that the times I've been accused of manipulation has been those times I've stood up for myself and spoken the truth.
I question myself often because I've been told I 'spin' the truth and have to question that accusation as my truth might not necessarily be the same as some one else's.
Although I do know that a major complaint of bp's by their spouses is manipulative personality. So I wonder if maybe people are right about me. What do I know...I'M CRAZY!