A manipulator's weakness is that they are afraid of vulnerability as manipulators also seldom express their desires, true feelings or needs and they seek out vulnerabilities in others to take advantage of them for their own benefit and deflect their true motives.
Manipulator's also have no ability to love, guilt, empathize, remorse or conscience.
A silent manipulator is a person that manipulates someone in a passive aggressive way and can be considered emotional abuse.
A silent manipulator uses silent treatment or stonewalling as a way to control someone else by withholding communication, ignoring the person or refusing to talk to the person.
Narcissistic silent treatment is a type of narcissistic manipulation and narcissistic abuse.
Narcissists may use the silent treatment to communicate they are unhappy with you, to control you, or as a form of punishment.
The silent treatment is an abusive behavior often used by those with narcissistic personality disorder to coerce or manipulate.
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The signs that someone is secretly manipulative include.
They know your weaknesses and how to exploit them.
They use your insecurities against you.
They convince you to give up something important to you, to make you more dependent on them.
If they succeed in their manipulation, they will continue to do so until you get out of the situation.
People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional sides to get what they want.
The person doing the manipulating, called the manipulator, seeks to create an imbalance of power.
They take advantage of you to get power, control, benefits, and/or privileges.
Manipulative behavior occurs when a person uses controlling and harmful behaviors to avoid responsibility, conceal their true intentions, or cause doubt and confusion.
Manipulation tactics, such as gaslighting, lying, blaming, criticizing, and shaming, can damage a person's psychological well-being.