Signs You’re in 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.

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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.

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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.

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Making you feel you are in their debt

If the signs of controlling personality showed up right in the beginning, it would be easy to notice them for what they are. Nevertheless, they don’t.

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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, you are dealing with a controlling person.

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Bad Habits in a Relationship That Can Ruin Your Partnership

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