Sentences with phrase «emotional blackmail»

David: Yeah, so really it's a kind of emotional blackmail and I know in the book you strongly suggest that PAS is a form of emotional child abuse?

Taking care of her personal needs makes her less susceptible to emotional blackmail.

These emotions are intense and painful, and when they surface they can lead to a number of negative behaviors, such as jealousy, clinging, and emotional blackmail.

But opportunistic emotional blackmail is something Facebook knows a bit about — having been previously caught experimenting on users without their consent to see if it could affect their mood.

(See a list of people and organizations who've employed this brand of emotional blackmail here.)

Well said, Steve, and that is precisely why all the emotional blackmail about «our grandchildren» is such a sleazy and duplicitous lie.

Oh god, kindly p*ss off with the emotional blackmail, Capcom.

I see this as engaging in self - serving emotional blackmail, financial interests not withstanding.

If you do this, your puppy will soon learn that he can control you with emotional blackmail.

Some dogs use whining, howling and barking as a kind of emotional blackmail to control their masters.

Its latest campaign uses emotional blackmail to convince potential pet owners that buying a purebred puppy from a breeder results in the death of a dog in a shelter.

And more so with each occurrence, added to his other selfish acts of emotional blackmail.

Dead Island's use of a child, whilst extremely effective, feels like a kind of emotional blackmail if considered as part of a wider picture.

Just as Stoeffel articulated, a sympathetic gesture becomes a form of emotional blackmail when put on the spot and «Will you marry me?»

Emotional blackmail is never a good solid basis for a relationship and she knows that too — you are not responsible for her emotions and actions.

So true not to use emotional blackmail.

Something which also occurs is «optional overtime» which comes with a type of emotional blackmail where staff are made to feel guilty for working anything less than life consuming hours.

A war of words developed in which Lewes Greens called the decision to stand down in Pavilion «emotional blackmail» and said they would not reconsider unless the «opportunist» Liberal Democrats stood down in Isle of Wight.

As someone who works a difficult job in Ulster County, NY and therefore deals with manipulation, emotional blackmail, victim complexes, entitlement, personality disorders, histrionics, lying, projecting, hypocrisy and coercion on a daily basis, let me give my experienced view.

Emotional blackmail that tries to get them to immediately back down.

I understand how you all feel because I feel the same but I honestly don't think they'll ever sack him, they'll plead with him to resign, even to move upstairs but he's so stubborn that he'll just tell»em «I'll never resign» and if they try to sack him, he'll use emotional blackmail with «I could have gone anywhere in Europe but stayed true to the club» and this will go on until the end of he's contract.

He'll start off by insulting new arrivals and then he'll come out with the same old comment he's been using for years,» I was wanted by the biggest clubs in Europe but chose to honour my contract» in an attempt of emotional blackmail to get the board to at least let him see out his contract until 2019.

«In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People» and «Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You».

Argument from emotional blackmail - Christ died for you, how can you be so heartless and not believe in him?

BTW anvil, no need for emotional blackmail from just another girly man.

It's a problem when it's done using emotional blackmail and in the guise of helping others.

It is called emotional blackmail at best and brainwashing and stealing their minds at worst.

Martin Scorsese's recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based, turns on an act of emotional blackmail.

«Companies should not do a type of emotional blackmail to get employees to give to the charity the company has chosen,» says one CEO.

Not exact matches

American politicians and media must not give in to emotional or religious blackmail from peoples we pay to be our friends.

Leon offers a finely drawn tale that encompasses theft, blackmail, emotional violence, and murder, as well as a rich array of characters... [and] compellingly combines their workaday crime - solving with a detailed picture of a vanishing Venice.»

'' «Such emotional weaponry is not the stuff of careful consideration, it is blackmail.