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When You want to Go But Your Partner Threatens to Hurt Themselves if You Do!

Have you ever been in a relationship where your partner has threatened to hurt themselves if you leave?

Unfortunately, this is a surprisingly common situation that I hear from a lot of you. In today’s Language of Love Bite, I want to equip you with a few tools to navigate a situation with someone who is either genuinely at risk or might be using suicidal thoughts as emotional blackmail. The tips I outline will hopefully give you some comfort and peace when navigating a stressful situation such as this.

In this Bite, I explore:

What emotional manipulation looks like

The important difference…

The skinny

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