Unlocking Vulnerability: 7 Surprising Emotional Traits That Make You an Easy Target for Manipulation
The quiet pull of control
Manipulation isn’t always loud. It doesn’t always come in the form of obvious deceit or outright lies. More often, it’s subtle—a quiet pull, a slow erosion of your confidence, a shift in your reality that happens so gradually you don’t even notice.
The truth is, we all have emotional traits that can work against us if we’re not careful. The need for approval, the fear of conflict, the desire to trust—none of these are inherently bad. But when the wrong person recognizes them in you, they become tools for control.



