Wow! reading your confession brought tears to my eyes. It was a big relief to me. My personal story: I was a single mother of 3 till I married a master manipulator, that took advantage of my vulnerabilty, to get his green card. The marriage only lasted 11 mnths, but it has been the most painful experience of my life, even worse than losing my first husband!The lies are countless…families are torn because of this man. He has managed to convince everybody around us, that he is justified for doing what he did. To make matters worse, now that we are seperated, he keeps calling wanting a relationship but not admitting to all the lies…Even as I write now, I don’t know how and where to begin my story! I am still very confused…So thank you for your post. Reading it has given me some strength,and ability to understand his thought process! because I sometimes wonder, how can he still sleep at night, and feel good about himself despite all he has done! Your post answered that question.

Wow! I have been leaving with a manipulator for over 20 years. I have recently filed for divorce becuase of the negative choices he has made that have impacted our relationship. I often asked myself how does he sleep at night. I often blamed myself. This post has really given me an insight to the mind of a manipulator. I hope one day my soon to be ex will find peace within himself.

that story related to me in many ways.
im 18 and i am a manipulator
i hate it
i mean i do it to everyone my friends and family and women too

its like theres this other side of me that wants to control everything idk if it’s from my lack of control in situations as a child like i.e my parents getting a divorce or whatever but manipulation seems to be corroding my soul. like i want to be a helpful loving human being and christian. but manipulation is so easy and its a destructive curse i mean at school there are some people that listen to my word very attentively and some of them do what i say. its messed up. i dont want this control really i want to make people happy. i dont want to crush other people to get i want. i mean compassionate and generosity are what makes us strong.

reply to this please

“Who’s in?”

I was raised by, am married to, and am rearing a master manipulator. And I have all three of them beat. Noobs.

Susan, Eunice is so nice a person that she is the exact opposite of me!

Aw man, I hate it when you get all honest like that…makes me look at me and my own manipulative tendencies

LOL…see how he does manipulate…..”let’s just focus on me”….LOL yes, it would seem so CMP…he not only introduces the topic but gives us a real example…LOL

“Manipulators manipulate themselves.”

Hmmmmmm, not to derail the thread, but when I read that sentence, I thought of the occupant of the highest office in the country….

Wow, I really needed that… I need to pray and repent as I myself also do likewise…

Manipulation and stubbornness. Is stubbornness part of control? That is what I struggle with. When things are not under my control, ducks in a row, etc, I can get very upset.