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Why Manipulation Won't Get You Anywhere Good
My own story of shameless manipulation
I have always been seen as someone nice. Never got in much trouble nor made many “enemies” until now.
But at the same time, I have never considered myself to be nice. I have been manipulative many times throughout my life sometimes willingly and many times only realizing it after.
My most manipulative action was 10 years ago. After shamelessly preventing the girl I liked to have a one-night stand with a guy at a party, we parted ways and decided not to talk to each other but to never mention what had happened to our friends.
Yet, 2 months later, I learned she had told the story to some of our common friends. I was hurt and anger took over me. I started looking into how to get girls and probably misunderstood a lot of what I read because what I took away from it was that everything needed to be calculated.
So when she came back to me saying she missed our time as friends, I put all the blame on her.
Despite the fact that our friendship had disappeared due to my actions, I made her believe it was her not upholding the agreement we made that prevented us from being friends again.
