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This type of manipulation from partners, friends and family can incite fear and guilt. Here's what it looks like and how to confront it.

If you are a woman — and if you’re not, you’re more than welcome here, too — you have relationships of all shapes and sizes, closeness and casualness, complexity and simplicity. Whether you secretly feel lonely, consider yourself rotten at relationships, or feel like you have too many to ever grab a minute alone, I can guarantee that a significant portion of your mental energy is expended navigating and negotiating the connections you have with the people in your life. I hope you’re the kind of human being who will smile at the stranger passing you in the grocery stor...