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  2. Controlling behavior in relationships - Wikipedia

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    Controlling behavior in relationships are behaviors exhibited by an individual who seeks to gain and maintain control over another person. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Abusers may utilize tactics such as intimidation or coercion , and may seek personal gain, personal gratification , and the enjoyment of exercising power and control. [ 4 ]

  3. Emotional blackmail - Wikipedia

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    Knowing that someone close to them wants love, approval or confirmation of identity and self-esteem, blackmailers may threaten to withhold them (e.g., withhold love) or take them away altogether, making the second person feel they must earn them by agreement. [6] Fear, obligation or guilt is commonly referred to as "FOG".

  4. Obsessive love disorder - Wikipedia

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    Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a proposed [by whom?] condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, sometimes with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Symptoms include an inability to tolerate any time spent without that person, obsessive fantasies surrounding the person ...

  5. Manipulation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, manipulation is defined as an action designed to influence or control another person, usually in an underhanded or unfair manner which facilitates one's personal aims. [1] Methods someone may use to manipulate another person may include seduction, suggestion, coercion , and blackmail to induce submission.

  6. Your brain in love - AOL

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    You may have heard people say that the most important organ for love is the brain, not the heart. Research on the neuroscience of love has some interesting findings that might surprise you. When ...

  7. Sadistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Sadistic personality disorder is an obsolete term for a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior. People who fitted this diagnosis were thought to have a desire to control others and to have accomplished this through use of physical or emotional violence.

  8. Girlfriend called ‘controlling’ after asking boyfriend not to ...

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    After posting, many people took to the comments section to defend her, explaining that it was not “controlling” behavior to request her boyfriend dress appropriately and, given his insistence ...

  9. Codependency - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of codependency vary, but typically include high self-sacrifice, a focus on others' needs, suppression of one's own emotions, and attempts to control or fix other people's problems. [ 3 ] People who self-identify as codependent are more likely to have low self-esteem , but it is unclear whether this is a cause or an effect of ...