Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about helping you identify poisonous communication and toxic behavior.

You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.

That's why it's important that you learn to pinpoint manipulative and controlling behavior so that you keep your power and your sanity.

I'm your host, Paul Koliani.

Thank you. power and your sanity. I'm your host, Paul Koliani. Welcome back to another episode of love and abuse. If this is your first time here,

welcome. If this is your second or more time here,

it's good to have you back. And I want to remind you that all information on this show is meant

for educational purposes only. Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being.

I'm going to read you some snippets of an email, a certain situation that this

person is in and may still be in. I'm not sure. This is a few months old. But I want to address

the topic specifically because this can happen in relationships and probably does happen in the

majority of relationships of the people that listen to this show.

And this applies to any type of relationship, whether it is a romantic relationship, a botanic

relationship, a family relationship, emotional abuse, manipulation, control is all part of our

makeup, believe it or not. I mean, we are all capable of doing this. Some of us do it

to a certain level and some of us do it without empathy. Some of us do it without caring.

And some of us actually do care and still do it. Why do we still do it? Because we have coping mechanisms.

We have survival mechanisms. They kick in and we can turn into this manipulative, controlling person.

Why would we do that? Why would we do that to someone we love? Because if you do that, you may not be adaptable to their behavior.

Now, let me kind of explain that a little bit.

Let's just say that someone you love does something that you don't agree with.

What do you do?

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