On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we discuss Susan Forward's six stages and four styles of emotional blackmail.

Music Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are going to discuss emotional blackmail. We're going to discuss the book Emotional Blackmail by Susan Forward with Donna Frazier. But before we get to that,

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format that we ask for that is on our website there. So a couple weeks ago, we did an episode

about Lundy Bancroft's 9 to 10 types of abusers. And people really liked that episode. A lot of people hadn't read the

book, and I always implore people to read that book, which is, why does he do that by Lundy Bancroft?

So today I thought I would go over an other fantastic book to help people make a little bit more

sense of who they are dealing with. And that book

is called Emotional Blackmail is by Susan Forward with Donna Frazier. And if you have not read this

book, I also like the last time I implore you to go and buy this book and read this book. So what is emotional blackmail? Emotional blackmail

describes a style of manipulation where someone uses your feelings as a way to control your

behavior or persuasive to see things their way. And before we get into the stages and styles of

emotional blackmail, let's just go into the

tools of the trade. And if you've done a lot of research into narcissistic abuse, into

abuse, into emotional abuse, physical abuse, any type of abuse, you would have most likely heard of something

called the fog, which is fear, obligation, and guilt. And this was also first coined by Susan

Forward and Donna Frazier. And this describes the feelings that a person often has when in a relationship

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