Quiz: Am I Being Manipulated In A Relationship?

Love is a wonderful feeling, but sometimes a girl can become a hostage to false feelings imposed on her by her manipulative partner. We created this quiz to help you figure out whether your partner really has genuine feelings for you, or whether he skillfully hides completely different thoughts behind his behavior.

The quiz consists of a few simple questions that will tell you about the type of social interaction and socio-psychological phenomenon known as psychological manipulation. This is the activity that manipulators perform to change the behavior and perceptions of other people. Their tactics consist of deceit, concealment of the truth, and violence.

How to tell if I am being manipulated

According to women who have had bad experiences in co-dependent relationships, there are several signs showing that your partner is skillfully playing love. This quiz is based on these signs.

10 signs I am being manipulated:

1. A relationship starts too fast: a man immediately starts looking for you after your first encounter and date. He actively texts and calls you, asks for your opinion and compliments you.
2. When an admirer notices that a girl has accepted courtship and starts to take a serious interest in him, he falls off the map. The girl cannot understand what is happening, often feels guilty, and considers herself a bad person.
3. The Hot and Cold game begins. When a woman has confidence in her chosen one, he suddenly disappears without a trace, leaving her haunted by doubts. The moment the poor girl calms down and decides to live without the thoughts that torment her soul, the abuser returns to her life.
4. Despite passionate declarations of love, a relationship is treading water. A man doesn’t introduce his chosen one to friends and parents.
5. The manipulator’s words don’t match his actions. He promises you to go see a new movie, a theatrical premiere or have a picnic, but at the very last moment, he always finds something more important that cannot be delayed.
6. When a girl questions her manipulator’s sincerity and begins a serious conversation with him about their relationship, he twists everything she says. It suddenly turns out that she not only misinterpreted his words but also purposefully distorted them to accuse him of lying. Such people constantly make you feel guilty and admit non-existent mistakes.
7. A manipulator lives here and now and doesn’t like to talk about your future together. He tries to avoid the word “relationship”.
8. Most of his friends are women, and many of them share the same name.
9. In any situation, he blames circumstances or cold-hearted people, but not himself.
10. Men of this type willingly communicate with their girlfriend’s friends, presenting themselves on the good side and showing everyone that they are victims of their ungrateful partner’s nagging. They give the impression of gallant, well-mannered partners, which most women dream of.

Toxic relationship with a manipulator

Manipulators are true psychic vampires, so be careful if your result of the quiz mentions this. They lure naive and gullible girls into a toxic relationship trap and shut it down before the victim realizes what is happening. When the victim realizes that she is trapped, she has almost no chance to escape on her own.

She gets into a co-dependent relationship where the manipulator acts as a love predator. He has no empathy, is unable to empathize, and cannot be reasoned with.

Causes of codependent relationships

This quiz will show you that manipulators are not born, they are made when they grow and develop.

The main causes of codependent relationships include:

• Lack of unconditional parental love. Some of a person’s basic needs were not met during childhood. When the person grows up, they try to get what they were deprived of in childhood;
• Psychological developmental trauma in early childhood, which prevented a person from completing the stage of forming an attachment to parents and then segregating from them;
• Physical, sexual, or psychological abuse suffered in childhood;
• Regular violation of the child’s personal boundaries;
• Triangulation (involving a child in the parents’ conflicts);
• Growing up in a family where a family member suffers from an alcohol, drug, or gambling addiction;
• Growing up in a family with mentally unhealthy relatives;
• Relationship with a toxic partner.

It is impossible to get out of such co-dependent relationships on your own, without any psychological assistance. The longer the relationship goes on, the more worthless the victim feels. They cease to believe in themselves and their abilities and fall into depression. Keep in mind that the quiz will not give you a 100% answer to your question, it will only point you in the right direction.