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Warning: Signs you are dating an emotional manipulator and why you should leave ASAP

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There are no perfect people or perfect relationships, however, we should always be conscious to when someone does cross the line with you - whether they are deliberately causing the other to feel bad or not. According to an expert, there are certain signs that someone is an emotional manipulator, suggesting that the partner should leave at once.

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MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Emotional manipulators prey on their partners insecurities - they emphasize them in trying to make themselves feel better and to get what they want all the time.

This type of person will deliberately cause the other pain and embarrassment, among many other negative feelings, and will try to woo them back again with simple, touching apologies and gestures that make the other believe everything will change.

Beatty Cohan, a psychotherapist and author of the "For Better, For Worse, Forever: Discover the Path to Lasting Love," explains the signs and advises to leave hurtful relationships.

"When we start to feel that something is off, we have to trust our instincts that something is just not okay. You feel like you are on a roller coaster ride," said Cohan who also warned that the emotional manipulation often leads into different types of abuses.

1. Your partner frequently diminishes your feelings and makes you feel like are overreacting.

2. Your partner puts you down in front of your family and friends.

3. Your partner blames you for their bad behavior.

4. Your partner refuses to explain themselves, and often claims "you wouldn't understand."

5. Your partner is always one upping you. If you had a bad day at work, their day was worse.

6. Your partner will briefly change their ways when you are about to leave.

Remember that a loving person will not hurt and blame you deliberately for things you have not done.

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