If you allow someone to take advantage of you, have they really? or have you just done them a "favor"?

Answer 1

It all depends on you, if you really want to do them the favor, even though you know what they are doing. Then you have a choice and if your choice is to say yes and do it. Then you have control and have done them a favor, Now when it happens over and over and you have a hard time standing up to saying no, or you are obligated, or pressured and you do the favor because of that and you don't feel good about it. then they are taking advantage of you. also if you do the favor without realizing what they are up to. The key is that you actually know they are taking advantage and you do not let it bother you or make you feel bad, you want to do it, and if you had to say no you could. Also you don't allow them to constantly do this to you because than you lose your self in giving them so much and they probably don't even appreciated it. By letting it happen to much you will end up harming them and yourself. Yes! Be an example to them, but just know when they have taken it to far and know when to say no! Then you are alright. You take the control.

Answer 2

I think that's called enabling. You are enabling a person to use you for whatever their purpose is. If you know and don't care, then I don't think that's them taking advantage of you because you knowingly are allowing them to do it. So, in a sense, yes, you are doing them a favor.

But, if you want or feel you deserve something in return for the favor then you need to plainly express that. If they don't want to deliver, then you shouldn't either, because you'll feel as if you are not getting what you need out of that exchange and thus feel like you were taken advantage of.

Answer 3

in a sense we are all taking advantage of each other.
hey! if someone else is willing to do it , why not??
but in this there is a certain give and take,
a sense of i scratch your back and you scratch mine.
it's when there is a take but no give that is the bone of contention.some times we do things for others expecting it to be returned, even if there is no formal agreement.
when it is taken for granted and there is no reciprocation
then we feel that we are taken advantage of.
but remember that you did it without anyone asking you,
you need not do it.so , if that is the case, then just don't do it the next time round. in the end it's how you look at it that counts , it can be either way.
God bless,
gabe

Answer 4

Allowing people to take advantage of you, is slowing down their progress in achieving their own success. Favors aren't always favors.

Answer 5

"Elmer Fudd" is Here, Come Out Wabbit, So I can make me some Wabbit Stew!!!

Now, will you come out and allow "Elmer Fudd" to take advantage of you, or if you decide to hide, will he be endowed with the favor of getting to go home for the day, saving time, money, energy, bullets, and of course -- You might have wabbit disease, and thus your meat is polluted.

I would say, you can't say for sure on the outcome. It could have gone either way -- But, realistically "Elmer Fudd" would have had one hell of a supper, and your goose would have been cooked

Answer 6

yeah if u know they are taking advantage and u let them u have made it easier for them, cause they prob wd have done it anyway eventually!!

Answer 7

Yes they have...even though you agreed. It was stupid decision that reveals more about your need to be held in high esteem than it reveals about their laziness. It also promotes them to do this to others...not a good thing.

Answer 8

You've done them a disfavor, as that's not a nice thing they tried to do to you...