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| - Emotional Blackmail and FOG, are terms coined by psychotherapist Susan Forward to describe methods of controlling people in relationships and the theory that fear, obligation or guilt ("FOG") are the key transactional dynamics between the controller and the person being controlled. Understanding these dynamics are useful to anyone trying to extricate themselves from abusive relationships, and deal with their own compulsions to do things that are uncomfortable, undesirable, burdensome, or self-sacrificing for others
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| - Emotional Blackmail and FOG, are terms coined by psychotherapist Susan Forward to describe methods of controlling people in relationships and the theory that fear, obligation or guilt ("FOG") are the key transactional dynamics between the controller and the person being controlled. Understanding these dynamics are useful to anyone trying to extricate themselves from abusive relationships, and deal with their own compulsions to do things that are uncomfortable, undesirable, burdensome, or self-sacrificing for others Emotional blackmailers employ appeals to fear, obligation and guilt in their relationships, ensuring that others feel afraid to cross them, obligated to give them their way and swamped by guilt if they resist. Knowing that someone close to them wants love, approval or confirmation of identity and self-esteem, emotional blackmailers may threaten to withhold them or take them away altogether, making the person feel they must earn them by agreement
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