emotional blackmail ...
By malaekat2an
@malaekat2an (526)
Indonesia
January 13, 2007 6:13am CST
does your girlfriend / boyfriend ever threatened to suicide or doing nasty things if you broke the relationship with them ? or have you ever threatened to suicide or other nasty things if a boy / girl refuse to date / marrying you ? ... well that's called emotional blackmail ...
what's your comments / experience / opinions about emotional blackmail ?
please share so the others know that is it good / bad (for me, it's bad)
why ? and how to handle that ?
5 responses
@babydolphin (536)
• Australia
23 Jan 07
I have no experience on it, but I think it is very bad. Everyone has free will, so if someone dont wanna go out with a certain girl/boy, then it is their choice. And also if a person wanna broke up from the relationship it is also their choices. I understand that sometimes it is hard to get rejected, or it is hard when someone broke up with you. I have been in that position as well, and what I wanted to do is of course to do anything I can do to keep him with me. However, I dont think emotional blackmail is the way to go. If he wants to be with me, then he will be with me, otherwise he will leave me. Afterall, there are still many other guys/girls out there.
@malaekat2an (526)
• Indonesia
23 Jan 07
thank's for sharing your experience with us ... Yupe, emotional blackmail will only get things even worst.
@malaekat2an (526)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
*laugh* yes, and based on my knowledge, it often happends when the person that does that is immature, and having an external locus of control (that's the termination in psychology for someone that blaming others that himself, and the opposite is internal locus of control) ... it does happends =) ... people blaming his/her bos, blaming their parents, etc, making such victim story, placing their selves as a victim ...
@yorgaki (678)
• Romania
14 Jan 07
I think better is to ignore this thing. Maybe they will be ashamed by themselves for doing that and just tried to forget it and not discussing about that again with you. Just as about a mistake that one tries to avoid or even to remember anything about it.
If they insist to do such nasty thing, just avoid to meet them again : I am of the opinion that nobody might be afraid about things that are not under his control - as time as you can't stop the rain or the snow, why even to try that ? You can't do it, dont waste your time with that and don't be fear about it - just deal with matters that are under your control and decision.
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@malaekat2an (526)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
=) ... everybody have their own responsibility for their own life. But also at the same time feel responsible for others at some circumstances because of the empathy, or as a social being.
@elfwithalongbow (51)
• United States
14 Jan 07
If people ever threaten like that... I think you should just leave them... those are horrible threats, and I don't believe that being with that person helps anything, it will just result in the relationship ending up being worse.