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Covert manipulators are quite gifted at provocation. As they learn more about you, they are investigating your weak spots and catering their comments towards what they know will hurt you the most. Knowing you’re triggered by their comments gives them a sadistic sense of satisfaction that alleviates their secret sense of inferiority and strokes their delusions of grandeur, control and aptitude. Having control over your emotions also gives them the power to effectively manipulate you and convince you that you don’t deserve any better.
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Shahida Arabi (POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse)
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Give this gift to the world. Give yourself.
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Moisés Bismarck Medina De León (Love in COVID Time: Two lovers, Enrique and Nicole, who find themselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This Romance is for breaking some persistent ... of relationships and their behaviors)