Step Work

Defects of Manipulation

Manipulation: inappropriate means to get someone to act a particular way (in contrast to a polite request, legitimate overt or covert boundaries, and/or positive reinforcement)

(The following may be legitimate or illegitimate depending on context.)

Verbal anger

Making noise (with furniture, household objects, doors, windows, and vehicles)

Encroaching on physical space (including using vehicles)

Criticism

Blaming

Chiding

Inventory-taking

Ordering

Hostility

Argument

Nit-picking

Sophistry

Legalism

Threatening

Punishing

Shaming

Sighing

Face-pulling

Glaring

Ridiculing

Sarcasm

Interrupting

Talking over

Repetition

Long-windedness

Filibustering

Terseness

Incoherence

Rambling

Expressing grudging acceptance

Withholding thanks

Mismatch between tone and words

Running away

Storming out

Weeping

Expressions of upset

Expressions of victimhood

Expressions of good motive

Assertion of the reliance on God

Assertion of the reliance on prayer

Silence

Patchy engagement

Ignoring

Sullenness

Self-pity

Promises

Bribery

Flattery

Charm

Flirting

Seduction

Intermittent reward

Invoking favours

Invoking obligation