@breakingthetoxicc: 12 HIDDEN GOALS BEHIND NARCISSISTIC CONTROL Manipulation is rarely about love. It is often about gaining power over the way you think, feel and live. Here are 12 things controlling behavior may be designed to do: 1. Take control of your choices and decisions. 2. Keep you emotionally or financially dependent. 3. Slowly destroy your self-confidence. 4. Make you question your memory and reality. 5. Keep you emotionally trapped through fear, guilt and false hope. 6. Control how other people see you. 7. Isolate you from friends and family who might recognize the abuse. 8. Drain your energy, happiness and peace. 9. Keep you constantly chasing their approval. 10. Protect their carefully created public image. 11. Make you feel guilty for having needs or boundaries. 12. Convince you that you cannot survive without them. The goal is not always to make you leave. Sometimes the goal is to make you stay while becoming smaller, quieter and easier to control. That is why healing begins when you recognize the pattern, stop accepting their version of you and start trusting yourself again. You are not weak. You are not imagining it. And you are far more capable of surviving without them than they ever wanted you to believe. 🦋 Which of these signs took you the longest to recognize? #BreakingTheToxicCycle #NarcissisticAbuse #CoerciveControl #EmotionalAbuse #Gaslighting
