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ORIGINAL: darlingjade
Thank you for this. It's exactly what I was looking for. Why? Because this is one of those threads that gets people thinking hard and searching themselves and I wanted to point out that a.)not all forms of manipulation are hurtful or bad(I certainly disagree with you about the examples I gave not being manipulation) b.) at first reading I knew exactly what ya'll were talking about but I'm not sure that a newbie would and c.)sometimes in reading the boards I've found that everyone tends to speak in absolutes and forget about the gray areas we all so know and love...