208: Emotional Manipulation In Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Emotional manipulation by your partner is a powerful tool that can have negative impacts on your relationship and well being. Listen to today's show to learn how your partner might be emotionally manipulating you and how to deal with it. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How to recognize emotional manipulation and its various forms that include stonewalling, shutting down and gas lighting How to communicate with your partner regarding their emotional manipulation Recognizing that your partner has an agenda with their use of emotional manipulation How to deal with the 'silent treatment' And much more! Nancy F. Lee, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Lee is a leading practitioner of cognitive behavior therapy and specializes in a wide range of behavioral health issues ranging from depression and anxiety to male/female psychosexual desire and functioning. Her independent research has been published in the prestigious Journal of Affective Disorders and the International Journal of Eating Disorders, among others. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/208 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Babbel: The #1 selling language learning app in the world. Try Babbel for free by visiting Babbel.com or downloading the app. BetterHelp: Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in? Welcome to the show. We're sing this song.
0:27.0	What's up Love Tribe?
0:29.0	Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us.
0:32.0	We have another great one for you where we welcome
0:35.0	Dr. Nancy Lee and Dr. Lee is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California.
0:44.0	And today we talk about emotional...
0:49.0	Manipulation.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	I had to finish that for you.
0:53.0	Thank you. I was thinking emotional neglect, but it's a similar thing and a lot of you probably know this most familiarly as the silent treatment the silent treatment the silent
1:05.4	treatment the silent
1:06.4	you just finishing my sentences today sorry but, and I've definitely been guilty of giving the silent treatment and
1:18.8	Dr. Lee gives a lot of great tools for how to deal with this if you're the recipient or if you're the one giving it how to work on these situations and then we also talk about stonewalling and Sarah help me out here.
1:34.0	Gas lighting.
1:35.0	Just finishing all my sentences, right?
1:38.0	I know, we're just like totally in connection today.
1:41.0	I can read your mind.
1:42.0	But the emotional manipulation, it doesn't feel good and unfortunately it is a part of most even healthy relationships.
1:52.0	We're only human, so Dr. Lee gives a lot of great
1:55.0	tips for how to deal with it. And she does mention in the interview how the
2:00.3	opposite of emotional manipulation is empathy and we actually did an episode on
2:06.4	empathy a few weeks ago so if you haven't listened to that that might be a good
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