How You’re Easily Manipulated by Families in a Bad Way

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:28.2	Now I want to talk to you about the real concern I had today was how you're easily manipulated
0:34.3	by families in a bad way.
0:37.3	There's good manipulation and there's bad manipulation.
0:41.6	Bad manipulation is to control you.
0:45.2	Good manipulation is to try to help you move in a direction that's really good and takes
0:51.1	nothing away from you.
0:53.4	See, if I'm manipulating you for personal gain,
0:56.7	that's bad manipulation. If I'm manipulating you, come on, it's a nice day. You know,
1:04.3	you're going to feel a lot better if we go out and it'll be wonderful. Come on, do it for me.
1:10.5	That's all friendly. That's trying to get you
1:12.8	to get out of Dodge and get back into the world. These are good manipulations, the bad ones you
1:19.9	know about. So, great article. You really should read it long. I can't do the whole thing on the air.
1:26.2	It's it's in www.
1:28.1	www.healthline.com.
1:31.8	And it's all about family manipulation.
1:36.9	And I started out with the cute thing, and so today.
1:40.7	So listen to this part.
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