How do you feel when someone is playing with your emotions?

Question

I'm sure that is not a pleasant one. What were your experiences when you went through this occurence?

Answer 1

That's happened to me & rage set in. I was so hurt & angry that I wanted to hurt him 10 times worse.

Answer 2

Awful!

In the middle of a very difficult time for me personally, I fell victim to an emotional vampire through this website.

She treated my emotions like a game for her own amusement ... fooling me (for a time) with three different online personae. She tried it again, only last week, with a fourth persona.

What is scary about this girl (still posting questions and answers on here with yet another personality) is that she was doing the same thing to another woman, whom I met (in real life) totally by chance. And the vampire kept on doing it, even long after she knew her victims were in contact with each other!

I was very upset, but the other woman had a complete emotional break-down and ended up in a Buddhist retreat centre for three months.

Some people are just sick freaks, who get their online jollies screwing around with people's feelings.



And there is a little part of me that is even wondering whether YOU are this girl in yet another persona ...
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Answer 3

Machiavellian types get on my nerves. My mother-in-law is such a type, but she mainly plies her craft with my husband, since she has had a lot of practice and knows how to press his buttons. She usually tries to use guilt as a motivator for me; since I came to realization that this was her game, and that she could never admit to being wrong, I started taking everything she said and working out the ramifications and motivations (also avoiding her when things got really bad). Sometimes her ploys are pitifully obvious. She pretends to want to do something totally out of character for her, but she only does this in order to test me or my husband to see our reactions. Once she left out a stack of money where I would find it and she watched hidden to see if I would steal it. I never even considered doing that, but she was testing me as if I were to be a top secret clearance employee, not the wife of her son. She is entrapment personified, and sometimes I think she doesn't have an authentic bone in her body, except when it comes to animals. People she has complete contempt for, and she delights in making her husband miserable and also anyone else who will let her get to them. The key to avoiding being "played" is to be vigilant and whatever you give, give it never expecting reward, because people are sometimes just awful and will do anything just to have the illusion of power over you.

Answer 4

I had gone though this a few times before I learned to turn the tables turning my heart to ice that couldn't melt.This actually seemed to drive her nut's as she thought she was way to impervious to being rejected by anyone!!I have to admit this was not easy..as she was (I had thought) to good to be true...that's usually how you get sucked into these relationships in the first place She still shows up with a drink in hand whenever we are at the same place.

Answer 5

I'm still going thru this because someone chose to lie to me rather than to tell me the truth. They strung me along for over a year, i went into a very deep depression where i didn't get out of my bed or talk to anyone. It's nothing nice for someone to Fu*k with your heart or emotions especially when you asked them not to do it and they chose to do it anyway. My problem is that i'm still very much in love with the person, even though i walked away from her last year, because of her playing with my emotions. She's never apologized for hurting me, she blames me for everything she's done to me, i don't get it. Because of her i ended up in therapy because i couldn't handle what she did to me!

Answer 6

Kind of going through it now, but nothing too extreme. Just mixed signals! I personally hate it, but if the person is worth the catch then.. well, we do crazy things for 'em.

Answer 7

I came close to a breakdown. It wasn't funny. It was a real bad time...and he knew he was doing it...We had spent 7 years together and I came home 1 day and he was a different person...that was 20 years ago...to this day I still don't know what happened.

Answer 8

It is the ultimate betrayal. I have learned not to give people second chances when they play these games. It isn't an innocent mistake by any stretch.

Answer 9

I get really aggravated, and annoyed!! I hate when people do that! Why can't they be honest, and tell you how they feel?. When I am in that situation, I tell them to either be real, or go away! I have no time for nonsense!!

If you are in that situation.... move on... your time and energy should be wasted elsewhere!!

Answer 10

I feel an overwhelming sense of hurt and rejection -- Do not let anybody dominate your life, he’s not worth your tears, your heart, your pain.