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James J. Sexton Quotes

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“Feel like your spouse is a master at twisting your words into something ugly when they weren’t intended that way? Standard tactic.”
— James J. Sexton, Signs Your Spouse is Manipulating You(and How to Handle It)
Tagged: manipulation, Words, Language
“If you’ve consistently caught your partner in lies, particularly damaging lies, you can bet there are plenty of lies that you haven’t found out about. Big red flag.”
— James J. Sexton, Signs Your Spouse is Manipulating You(and How to Handle It)
Tagged: manipulation, Lies, Liar
“Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: manipulation, Love, Relationships, Makeup, illusion vs. reality, facade, Dishonesty, Truth
“Our culture is fascinated with self-improvement. But I’ll let you in on a secret: It’s easier to change other people than it is to change yourself.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: Self-improvement, How To Think, reinforcement, change in the world, change how you live, Change
“The easiest way for you to manipulate your romantic partner is to not only praise behavior you want to see in that person, but also to praise the opposite of the unwelcome behavior the person is been engaged in rather than attempting to punish it.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: How To Think, love and fear, manipulation, Relationships
“Gaslighting is when someone makes you feel crazy. You have an issue with their behavior? You must be crazy. You think they’re making bad choices? You’re clearly crazy. This is most damaging when it goes beyond just saying you’re crazy, to actually acting concerned about it. The secret weapon here: playing on your insecurities. Don’t buy it.”
— James J. Sexton, Signs Your Spouse is Manipulating You(and How to Handle It)
Tagged: manipulation, Gaslighting, crazy, Insecurities
“We've been indoctrinated to believe that it’s immoral to try to change someone else. We’ve been told that love, real love, is about accepting your partner “for who they are." But we’re constantly changing our romantic partners merely by our presence in their day-to-day lives. They react to us. We react to them. That's kind of the point. We influence each other’s behavior and, ideally, help each other, together, be the best version of ourselves.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: How To Think, Love, Relationships, maniupulation, Truth, Thinking About The Future, Life
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