Are You Being Manipulated By Addiction?

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We must remember that although we love good people, they do suffer from a disease. And the disease of addiction is not nice. It’s mean. It’s ugly. And it does whatever it takes to thrive.

Here’s the loving truth: if they don’t seek recovery, it gets worse over time.

So, as the ones that love these people suffering, we have work to do. We need to prepare ourselves to deal with their behaviors, both good and bad.

Today we dive deep into manipulation and a different tactic they may use, and of course, tips and tools for you to deal with it all. It’s a lot. We totally get that.

Listen today to find help, answers, encouragement, understanding, and love.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. We are doing a series about covert and passive aggression and I know you guys for those of
0:26.1	you that are new to this podcast it sounds kind of boring and kind of technical
0:30.2	but I promise I'm keeping these super short, super sweet, to the point, and incredibly
0:38.2	simple.
0:39.7	So I'm gathering examples from this masterful book called In Sheep's Clothing.
0:46.4	It's an oldie but goodie and you can find it on Amazon.
0:49.5	And then I'm tweaking them specifically for loving someone suffering from addiction.
0:55.2	If you're a reader and you enjoy a good book, I highly recommend it.
1:00.9	Now just to refresh for those of you that are joining, covert aggression is different
1:07.5	than passive aggression.
1:10.2	Covert aggression is basically wanting to be bad while trying to look good.
1:15.0	And the first sign of covert aggression that we covered last week
1:21.0	is playing dumb when something is awful or when something
1:26.3	awful they did is called to their attention. Today we're going to cover the second
1:32.0	example of covert aggression and that is never giving a
1:36.9	straight answer to a straight question.
1:41.1	Oh my gosh, if we were in a room together I bet you be like nodding your head right now going
1:46.8	oh that is something I can so relate to right now this can look several different ways. For example, changing the
1:56.0	subject if you're talking about something sensitive. They could use
2:00.4	distractions or diversion techniques to keep the focus off of their behavior.
2:08.3	They try to move us off track to keep themselves free and promote their own self-serving agendas.
2:17.0	And here's the thing, sometimes this can be extremely subtle. You may confront your manipulator on a very important
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