2007-02-20 19:50:21 · 5 answers · asked by mauikittie 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
Well blackmail (extortion) is the act of holding something over a person's head in order to get their cooperation in manipulating you. I can't specifically define emotional blackmail because all blackmail has an emotional element. It is forcing your will on someone with an unseen weapon no one else knows about. Of course this secrecy in itself is an emotional thing...as is the threat of someone finding out something you want kept private, and destroying your relationships, and your support system, or harming someone you care about. The act of voluntarily submitting to something you don't agree with to prevent something worse, is also in itself, emotionally damaging. It strips a person of their dignity by taking their personal power to truly make their own choices. So it makes you feel less than, subservient, inferior.
You cannot have blackmail of any type in any healthy relationship. You go against the idea of both words, "healthy" and "relationship" which both imply that it is a truly voluntary arrangement to support each other. So the best way to have that relationship is to end it or the person with the power has to stop wielding it in an abusive way.
2007-02-20 20:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its probably like 'conditional love' like someone saying....you dont love me because you dont do this or that or because you behave this way. like a parent saying to a child...do this for me or I'll go crazy? or a partner saying...have sex with me or I will leave you.
somehow holding loving someone to some unkind condition.
how do u promote a healthy relationship if one partner is emotionally blackmailing? hmmm not sure maybe depends on what the condition is. maybe have some spiritual counseler to help with this. peace
2007-02-21 03:59:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if he blackmails you emotionally ,show him you can blackmail him phsically. tell him or her your brother is a sniper.
blackmail is the meanest thing in the world.
2007-02-21 03:57:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone really loves someone and is scared of loosing that person and they know it. They ask /demand that the other do or act in ways that they normally would do.
2007-02-21 04:01:02 · answer #4 · answered by old lady 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means d relationship is not worth it so QUIT.
2007-02-21 03:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by joddie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋