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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Feeling you have to check-in for any decision

Control freaks in relationships like to exercise authority over all decisions. They present themselves as wise and possess the right expertise to drive you into checking with them.

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There is drama whenever you don’t respond asap

In a controlling relationship, you feel you need to be next to your phone and able to respond anytime.

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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.

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Secrets to Maintain Transparency in Relationships

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