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Top ten comebacks for manipulative people

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What to say when someone is MANIPULATING YOU

Manipulators try to achieve their goals by persuading others to do what they want by indirectly influencing someone else’s behavior or actions to suit their agenda. At first, they may appear to have your best interests at heart, but really it’s all about them.

They know how to find your weaknesses, and once discovered they will continue to use your weaknesses against you. When they have figured out how to get you to do what they want, they will keep exploiting you until you put a stop to it.

A manipulative high school girl was constantly creating drama with friends. Sonja always wanted to be the centre of attention, she would bad mouth other girls in the group behind their backs and turn friends against each other. One day when Sonja wasn’t around, the group started comparing stories and shared horrible things that she had said about every single one of them. They realized she had played and manipulated every single member of the group.

A manipulative person can take a real toll on your life. Here are a few snappy comebacks you can say to let the manipulator know you are on to them.

Top ten comebacks for manipulative people

  1. If I was meant to be controlled I’d come with a remote.
  2. Your actions clearly show you have your best interests at heart, not mine.
  3. Using manipulative behaviour to get your own way, will only force me to make choices you are not going to like.
  4. You. Cut out that egocentric manipulative bullshit now.
  5. Sorry, my independence rocked your needy world. Later baby.
  6. Wait, come back. You forgot your bullshit.
  7. If you put in as much effort into being a good person as you do pretending to be a good person, you could actually be a good person.
  8. Arguing with a manipulator is like getting arrested, everything you say or do can be used against you.
  9. Do you need some sun because your behaviour is pretty shadey.
  10. Mean people don’t bother me one bit. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a whole lot.

What to say to MANIPULATIVE people

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Top Ten Comebacks for Controlling People

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How to respond to someone who is being CONTROLLING

People who try to control your every move do so because they are insecure. You may be with a controlling person if they constantly criticize everything you do, isolate you from your friends and family, and try to change you while squashing your self-confidence and self-esteem.

I knew a flight attendant whose boyfriend, Dazza, would call her twenty times a day wanting to know her every move. Isabelle had to call him before going out, he wanted to know where she was going and if she didn’t tell him beforehand, he would get very angry. After a couple of years of his controlling behaviour, she received a phone call from another woman, who said that she thought they had the same boyfriend.

Isabelle didn’t think it could be true, she went over to the woman’s house, and there was a picture of her boyfriend and this woman cuddled up, which they took on vacation. There were messages from him on her answering machine saying how much he loved her.

The crazy thing is Dazza was just as controlling with his second girlfriend as he was with Isabelle.

Here are some snappy comebacks to let the controlling person know that you are not interested in being controlled or told what to do.

What to say to a controlling person

  1. If I was meant to be controlled I’d come with a remote.
  2. If you want to control everything start with controlling your urge to speak.
  3. You. Cut out that egocentric control bullshit now.
  4. I’m sorry that the control freak in you activates the psycho bitch in me.
  5. There is nothing wrong with being a control freak if your controlling your words, behaviour and attitude.
  6. I’m going to need you to turn down your psycho for just a bit.
  7. I find it curious how people who have no self-control and respect for your feelings are the same people who demand self-control for you.
  8. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and I have a right not to listen to it.
  9. Go find someone else to control because you are not controlling me.
  10. People often forget that it is your own choice of how you want to spend the rest of your life.

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What to say to a hypocrite

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What to saying when someone is being a hypocrite

Do you have a hypocrite in your life, someone who conveniently forgets their own faults while happily pointing out yours?

Hypocrites have one set of standards for themselves and different standards for you.

A high school girl, Nelly, would continually bad mouth other people stirring up drama within her class. If anyone else talked badly about someone, Nelly would tell them off and say it is wrong to talk about people. The weird thing is she just couldn’t’ see that she was the worst offender.

These snappy comebacks will let the hypocrite in your life know that you are on to them, and are not interested in putting up with their double standard.

Top ten comebacks for a hypocrite

  1. I think it’s funny that the people that treat you like shit get offended when you do the same to them.
  2. Well, aren’t you just a shiny little hypocrite polished in bullshit!
  3. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, they should sit down and shut the F*** up!
  4. You need to get off your high horse and look at yourself first!
  5. It’s always the one with the dirty hands pointing the finger.
  6. Actions prove who someone is, words just prove who they want to be.
  7. No, of course I don’t think you are a total hypocrite for preaching about the same shit you are guilty of doing…
  8. The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite.
  9. If I treated you, the way you treated me, you would hate me.
  10. It’s easier to see the wrong in other people’s lives, than in your own life. Don’t judge.

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Top Ten Comebacks for people who Interfere in your life

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If you have ever had someone meddle in your life you know how frustrating it can be! Interfering parents and friends can cause serious problems in your life and relationships.

Clearly, interfering people have boundary issues and they need to learn to be respectful and back off instead of inserting their nose in other people’s business.

Sabrina’s mother, Glenda, wasn’t married and didn’t have a lot of intimate relationships. Glenda would overstep her bounds, even though she didn’t have a close relationship with her daughter.

Glenda didn’t agree with one of Sandra’s parenting decisions that were truly none of her business. She called an intervention behind Sabrina’s back with her husband and mother in law. Glenda seemed to think that it was OK for her to interfere in a marriage and a family decision when it was none of her damn business. When Sandra found out, she was furious and had enough of someone interfering in her life, she decided she needed to put a lot of distance between herself and her mother.

Here are some snappy comebacks to let the meddler know you they need to stop interfering immediately.

What to say to someone who interferes in your life

  1. Maybe you should get your own life and stop interfering in mine.
  2. Next time I need an unsolicited and uninformed opinion I will know where to go.
  3. If you’re not feeding me, F&#%ing me or putting the roof over my head, it’s really none of your business.
  4. Remember when I asked for your opinion? Me neither.
  5. My life, my mistakes, my choices. Not your business!
  6. My business isn’t your business. Unless you’re my thong, don’t be up my ass.
  7. If you are going to have opinions about my life than I can assume you will be paying some of my bills.
  8. You must have everything in your life figured out because you obviously have time to meddle in mine.
  9. It’s never too late to shut up and mind your own business.
  10. You can tell whose miserable in their own life because they have nothing better to do than meddle in yours!

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What to say to a narcissist

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Narcissists can be difficult people to deal with. It‘s all about them, all the time, they never think of others. It can be very painful if you have a narcissist in your life who constantly tramples on your feelings.

Valerie’s cousin, Olivia, who lived in Ireland had always been self-centred. Val had secretly thought that she was a narcissist after witnessing really selfish behaviour for years.

Val was going through a really tough time in her personal life, her first serious relationship was over. Her boyfriend, who she lived with, had left her and she found out that he was seeing another woman behind her back. In his belongings, she found an 8 by 11 picture of a woman with a big hook nose, who wrote on the picture to the sweetest man I have ever known. Val was devastated both by the beak up and by the betrayal and just could not stop crying.

Her cousin, Olivia, had planned to visit and was meeting a guy she met online in London. When she arrived, Val was still feeling very distraught and could not stop crying that her relationship was over.

Olivia did not have any empathy for Val’s situation and could not understand why she was feeling down and wasn’t super sparkly. Olivia said to Val, “Are you just jealous because I have a date?” Val couldn’t believe that her narcissistic cousin could make the worst moment of her life all about her.

If someone keeps ignoring your feelings and making everything about them, you might want to consider making a few changes in the relationship. Here are a few things to say if you get fed up with the narcissist in your life.

Top ten comebacks for a narcissist

  1. If you live your life like everything is about you. You will be left with just that. Just you.
  2. I’m not an astronomer but I am pretty sure the earth revolves around the sun and not you.
  3. I’m sorry, I forgot I only exist when you want something.
  4. Sorry you’re mad that the world doesn’t revolve around you. Let me pour you a tall glass of get over it.
  5. Thank you for reminding me of how self centered and hypocritical you are. I had almost forgotten.
  6. Sorry my self-absorption got in the way of yours.
  7. Your problem is not knowing you’re the problem.
  8. There is not a sponge in the world that can rival your self-absorption.
  9. Get over yourself, not everyone wants to be you.
  10. Oh yes, let’s ignore everything I just said and talk some more about you.

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