Recognizing Signs of a Controlling Relationship

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Isolating your form friends and family

Common controlling behavior in a relationship is seeking to separate you from your support network. The means of doing so vary from complaining how much time you spend with them,

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Blaming you for their actions

Controlling relationships is also detectable by who ends up being blamed in the relationship. For small things too, for example – if they broke a glass,

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Criticizing you all the time

It might seem that anything you do could use improvement when you are in a controlling relationship. Your partner criticizes you over small or big things equally and expects perfection.

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Threatening you – more or less overtly

Those intimidations are not always physical and can be veiled. They might threaten they will cut your contact with kids if you divorce them, harm themselves,

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Keeping a scoreboard

Compared to a healthy dose of reciprocity, in a controlling relationship, it feels there is a constant count of who did what for whom. It feels exhausting keeping track,

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Using guilt or anger to manipulate

Depending on how proficient they are in manipulating, the signs will be less or more easy to spot. Be it shouting, cussing,

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Going through your things

This is a definite sign you can hardly ignore. If you notice they are going through your belongings, spying on you, listening to calls, or checking your messages,

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Jealousy or paranoia

Although jealousy in relationship may seem at first as though they just love you all too much, over time it becomes difficult to bear.

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Making you feel you are not good enough

This is the most frequent characteristic of a controlling relationship. You might have felt this way before you met them, but it sure intensifies when around them.

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