7 Everyday Phrases That Secretly Manipulate Your Mind—Are You Falling for Them?
Instead of taking responsibility, they frame the misunderstanding as your fault. You misheard. You misread their tone. You took it the wrong way.
Essentially, they portray themselves as the victim of your “confusion.”
This tactic can lead you down a spiral of self-doubt. Before you know it, you’re apologizing for something they said.
If you often find yourself backpedaling and asking, “Wait, did I really hear it wrong?”—that’s a clue something might be off.
It’s one thing to clarify an actual miscommunication. It’s entirely different when it becomes a pattern of the other person rewriting reality so they avoid accountability.
