How to recognize external manipulation?

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I’m talking about when you feel that the person isn’t being honest or is manipulating rhetoric to I’m talking about when you feel that the person isn’t being honest or is manipulating rhetoric to get you to do something specific, is very insistent, etc.

Personally, I have a situation with someone who my intuition tells me isn’t being fair and is lying to me about the price of a product. The problem is that this person is related to my girlfriend, but her family says they are very narcissistic, manipulative, and so on. I’ve seen attitudes and behaviors from her that don’t bode well, beyond my own judgments.

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To understand if someone is manipulating you, you need to make sure that you’re centred and unbiased. So a neutral perspective, that is not based on emotions. It requires a lot of self-awareness because some people have a profound belief that everyone is going to lie and manipulate them.

When you are in a neutral state, your wounds and past experiences don’t influence your perspective, so you can analyse the situation.