Maintaining a loving relationship with a manipulative person is something quite serious, to which you have to give the importance it deserves. A manipulative person is usually a sociopath, something that can cause the relationship to become toxic and quite dangerous.
You cannot under any circumstances be allowed to maintain a relationship with someone who is manipulative, being important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
How to know if the partner is manipulative
There are a number of fairly obvious and clear features that can indicate that a person is manipulative within the couple:
- A manipulative person is always going to be the victim, even if he or she is not right. He always blames the partner for everything and is unable to recognize that he or she is the culprit.
- This person is in charge of showing that there is no one better in the world than him or her. Bring out the other person's flaws to make them feel insecure and distrustful. The fear of this and of being alone or alone is being with the manipulative person.
- The manipulation reaches such an extreme that it is capable of causing the couple to fight with family or friends. With this, he seeks to get away from others and totally depend on him or her. In the long term, it causes the manipulated person to be alone and has no one to turn to.
- Although a manipulative person from the feeling of being someone calm and collected, when he feels cornered he can become quite violent and lose his role. He does not like to lose the initiative and can show his true face. In the most extreme cases, it can lead to physical violence.
- A manipulative person usually makes any kind of decision for the couple, regardless of the other person's opinion. With his arguments he gets the couple to make the decision that the manipulator wants from the beginning.
- If the person is manipulative, they will be affectionate with the partner at all times. He will do everything possible so that the other person in the relationship is well and in this way always have him by his side. He wears a mask so as not to show his true personality. If questioned for any reason, the manipulative person changes completely, revealing his true face.
- Impulsiveness is another of the clearest characteristics of a manipulative person. If you lose control of something, you often hurt your partner by making them feel bad about it. Toxicity is present at all times and can physically abuse the other person.
Having a manipulative partner is not good for any relationship. If it is confirmed that the person manipulates the other, it is important to end such a relationship since in the long term there can be serious problems and become someone toxic and dangerous. Unfortunately, many people are unable to recognize the continued manipulation of the partner and live without realizing that they are fully in a toxic relationship, in which respect is conspicuous by its absence.