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• The relationship is used as a way to put one’s partner down or humiliate them in order to raise themselves up.
• The relationship is used to generate guilt in a partner in an attempt to make them more dependent and thus more loyal.
• The relationship is used to keep a partner engaged and connected by entrapping them hinancially.
• The relationship is used to keep a partner engaged and connected by entrapping them and separating and isolating them from friends and family.
• The relationship is used to keep a partner engaged and connected by “gaslighting” which is when one partner has a legitimate complaint about the other partner and is then made to feel stupid, crazy or foolish and therefore a lesser and dehumanized individual.
• The relationship is used to test their partner’s devotion by seeking things (material or emotional) which they feel they are entitled to; then suggesting their partner has “never given enough”.
• The relationship is used to show a partner that they are not as important as other people or things; as though they are “lucky” to be in a relationship at all.
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