When I started reading about manipulation in marriage, well, just manipulation in general,

the first sentence I read on an article was, at its core, manipulation is a type of lying.

And that changed everything for me, people, because I knew manipulation was bad.

And I know we've all been guilty of it, especially in our marriage.

And some of it, I think is conscious and unconscious.

But when I identified it as lying, I felt like there was this clarity brought to everything that I have not been able to see clearly about, like, miscommunication.

And that is the hallmark of manipulation is there's the sense that I am the one that is wrong.

And this other person's right.

They've proven to me that they're right in some way.

But I still feel like something's off.

Yeah.

There's these layers of, I think, control and insecurity, like fighting each other or on the same side.

There's fear is involved. There's, you know, insecurities and intimidation. There's all of these things that manipulation roots run deep. And the thing is, is people don't always know they're manipulating each other. Right. And they don't know that they're being manipulated. And that's the whole thing is it's this weird. It's so. And we're not saying that like it just happens to you. I mean, it kind of does. But if we look at God's word about like how we can have hope and how we can have instruction and how we can clearly identify manipulation within for the sake of this podcast our marriage we can walk out we can walk

in the light i think that much more clearly so it's going to be a good one we're excited here

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