Relationship red flags come in many kinds and sizes.
These red flags aren’t always evident, and they don’t always take the form of physical abuse or violence. While other types of abuse and manipulation in relationships may be more subtle and difficult to detect, these forms of oppression over duped can have long-term consequences on a person’s self-esteem and self-worth. Perhaps a loved one targeted your character more than once, making you feel inadequate and tiny.
Remember how many times you questioned or suppressed your own emotions to make room for someone else’s? What about when you remember an incident overshadowed by someone else’s remembrance of the same event? If this is a one-time incident or a simple error, it’s one thing. However, duped repeating incidents like this, even if they appear accidental slights, can swiftly snowball into psychological manipulation.
Gaslighting is a term used to describe this sort of emotional abuse. According to Dictionary.com, it entails “distorting the facts to confuse or inspire doubt in another person to the degree [that] they question their sanity or reality,” according to Dictionary.com. The duped word started with Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light, which was about an abusive relationship, and gained popularity in 1944 with the film Gaslight, which starred Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Boyer, an international criminal, hides something from his wife, Bergman.
He convinces her that she is losing her hold on reality because she distrusts him.
Gaslighting is now acknowledged as a form of oppression and a red flag that indicates emotional abuse and psychological manipulation in partnerships. Racial gaslighting attempts to influence and denigrate minority populations’ collective experiences, memories, sanity, and emotions.
Continue reading for 20 indicators that you’re being duped. Once you’ve identified these indicators, decide if the activities are manipulative and controlling or plain blunders and unintentional mishaps. If the former is true, begin making efforts to equip yourself to manage and eradicate this abuse, whether with a professional counselor’s assistance, the direction of an HR department, or the support of a coworker.
The authored article is written by Sejal Wakkar and shared with Prittle Prattle News exclusively.
