5 Signs Your Girlfriend Emotionally Blackmails You

Before discussing about various signs of emotional blackmail, we must admit the fact that both men and women resort to blackmailing at some point or the other. When you want to get something done by your partner when he or she is completely disagreeing, you tend to threaten emotionally. So, without being aware of the fact that you are blackmailing, you are already doing it.

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This article is about signs how women emotionally blackmail their partner; but even men do that and some men do it in the ugliest ways. But we shall talk about that in a different article. For now, let us focus on various signs of emotional blackmail. If you come across these signs in your relationship, it is better to discuss things with your partner in a healthy way. Don't try to confront your partner or corner her as that would be a threat to your relationship.

Signs of emotional blackmail

She can't take no as an answer
If your girlfriend doesn't easily take a ‘NO' for anything, then it is one of the signs of emotional blackmail. Whatever she says, she expects you to do it without questioning. If you voice out your opinion, she will try to convince you. If you bluntly say no, she would cry or get angry. At the end of the day, she just wants you to do things her way.

She resists
Whenever you try to put your point across, you will observe a lot of resistance. She would just turn it into an argument by disagreeing with you in everything. She will simply say no to whatever you say and this will create a headache for you. Though your opinion is closer to the truth, she would just say no to it.

She tries to corner you
Whenever there is an argument, she will try to corner you as if her whole life is depended on that. She gets a strange pleasure when she sees you cornered. She will feel right whenever you are wrong. She will feel happy whenever you are caught doing something unhealthy in the relationship. She feels happy in ‘forgiving' you.

She gives you pressure
To get something done by you, she pressurises you instead of requesting. If she wants to go anywhere and if you say no, then she will pressurise you and get things done by you instead of letting you do things your way.

She threatens you
This is one of the major signs of emotional blackmail. She threatens you. She will say that she will end the relationship. If you are not threatened, she might say that she will end her life. If you still don't move, she might even break down into tears and start screaming. At some point or the other, she expects you to cool her down.