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Abuse Has No Excuse

How Women Manipulate Men?

Yes, women can manipulate. And they are good at it.

Mila
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6 min readNov 2, 2021

I’ve tried to manipulate my partner on more than a few occasions. There I’ve said it. Thankfully my partner has seen through all of my tactics and has given me a choice or rather an ultimatum: either I will drop the childish, irritating and abusive tendencies and grow up, or he will walk away.

I choose to do the right thing: I choose to grow up and wake up to a brutal and ugly truth:

Women are taught how to manipulate men from adolescence.

There are too many men being emotionally abused by women. Many women are well aware of the powers that they have over men and they choose not to change. Soon they become abusers and their small manipulative tactics become abusive techniques that ultimately harm and destroy the men.

Now, I see these women every day. Let’s face it — we are all manipulators to some extent. But there are those who do it consistently, deliberately and sometimes with a more sinister agenda, not caring about the effect it has on the other person at all.

So what is manipulation?

Manipulation is an attempt to sway a person’s emotions to get them to act in a specific way or feel a certain thing. Manipulation is the need to control things. The manipulative woman can be your sister, your friend, your mother, your daughter and your friend.

They are everywhere around us and society, mass media encourages and promotes women to use different tactics how to manipulate men to get what they want. There are so many “how-to” articles out there for women, and usually there go something like this: “How to make you man listen to your needs”; “How to make your boyfriend jealous”; “How to make him miss you like crazy…” and so on.

I would like women to be more direct, but they aren’t. Many of them, unfortunately, resort to unorthodox tactics to get what they want. Women like to play dirty especially when they want something very much.

I am not saying every woman is manipulative. But the reality is they do exist and quite often women manipulate more than men. So what are some less-known tactics that women use to…

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Mila
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Writer, Screenwriter, Role Model and just ultra-cool babe. I’m fearless. I’m a writer. I don’t quit. I use my imagination to inspire others! I know who I am!

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