{"product_id":"emotional-blackmail-when-the-people-in-your-life-use-fear-obligation-and-guilt-to-manipulate-you-9780060928971","title":"Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA practical guide to better communication that will break the blackmail cycle for good, by one of the nation's leading therapists, Susan Forward. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Breathe a sigh of relief  Susan Forward helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with those you love. I highly recommend this important book \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of \u003cem\u003eFeel the Fear and Do It Anyway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you really loved me...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter all I've done for you...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can you be so selfish...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo any of the above sound familiar? They're all examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and coworkers, our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to give themselves the payoff they want: our compliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Forward knows what pushes our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the communications gap between the sexes in \u003cem\u003eMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, \u003c\/em\u003e and Harriet Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in \u003cem\u003eThe Dance of Anger, \u003c\/em\u003e so Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Forward, Susan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060928971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.31w x 0.67d","brand":"Susan Forward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39539267272779,"sku":"9780060928971","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_4192bedf-7634-4a1c-a8b5-3ea859336d16.jpg?v=1633440075","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/emotional-blackmail-when-the-people-in-your-life-use-fear-obligation-and-guilt-to-manipulate-you-9780060928971","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}