What does it mean if someone says 'he is emotionally manipulating you' or emotionally blackmailing?

Question

are they different?

what do they mean?

Answer 1

The are different

Emotionally Blackmailing is an intangible disorder. It is a behaviour that is a result of unacknowledged or pent-up emotion, which could stem from a disturbing childhood experience or anger towards society.

He is emotionally manipulating you means he fakes his emotions

Answer 2

when a person uses emotional manipulation or blackmail, he or she is using calculated emotional input to achieve a desired output by using predicted responses to emotional keys; i.e. pushing your buttons.  example: "i know you don't love me if you won't do what i ask"

Answer 3

That person is appealing to your emotions or feelings in trying to get

you to make a decision. It's like the ads on TV that ask you to send money to them for starving children in Africa. They show pictures of very sad and skinny children to make you feel bad.

That is one example of emotional manipulation.

Another would be if a person wants to pawn off a sick pet on you because they know you love animals. Or someone plays poor and knows you will lend them money because you like to help people.

I think the emotional manipulation and emotional blackmail are the same.

Answer 4

The first answer was a little bit confusing, and also a little bit off.

Emotionally blackmailing you means that he is using your emotions against you.  He knows how your mind works, and he's using it to your disadvantage (example, if a guy knew that you had a soft spot for puppies, and said that if you broke up with him, he would kill a puppy, therefore making you NOT break up with him, that's emotional blackmail).

Emotional blackmail is a FORM of emotional manipulation.

Emotional manipulation is when someone knows how your emotions work, and so they use what they know about you to take advantage of you, because they know exactly how you will react.  However, this could be for good or for evil.  The first example would be "for evil."  An example of emotional manipulation for good (in the end, at least, because messing with someone's emotions is NEVER good) would be if a guy liked you a lot, and found out that you only date guys who wear red shirts, so he started wearing red shirts to get your attention.  He knew how you would react, so he played with your emotions to get you to like him.

Emotional manipulation could also be if your boyfriend was lying to you to take advantage of you (example, saying he loves you when he really doesn't just to get s*x from you).

Hope that explains it a little more.