What is core of manipulation? Why would a person be of manipulative behavior?

.


There is obvious manipulation that is seen to be selfish, mean, overbearing.





There is more subtle manipulation that's gentle, kind, ';likable'; yet aware or unaware that their manipulating.





What causes a person to be manipulative type? How to break that learned and familiar pattern?


Understanding the core of how started will open to breaking that habit and trait.





Much comes out of unpleasant experiences (i.e. childhood, marriage, etc.) that sparks behaviors and traits including manipulative behavior.





If answer is to control. Why would a kind person want to control or manipulate another?





Answers from licensed therapists as well as those with life experience all welcomed.


.What is core of manipulation? Why would a person be of manipulative behavior?
I'm a psychopath, and this means I have a lack of empathy for people. I am extremely manipulative to help me get farther in life. If I have this control, I have power, and people with power rule the world. I have abusive parents, physical and mentally, and after being hurt I don't want to be out of control again. I have a mental illness, part of my brain doesn't work, maybe its my fault I don't know. I just can't feel';love'; or anything for that matter. It's hard, and I wish I was just normal.What is core of manipulation? Why would a person be of manipulative behavior?
Most people don't realize that they manipulate people. You can't just break it if you don't even know you're doing it. I do it all the time, but don't realize it.
Egoic, greed and merely self seeking, who think world is only for them and must get what they think they want by hook or crook without realizing that such things won't last long and one gets more by giving/sharing what they have than grabbing!
insecurity, fear, desire to acquire, possess, dominate, and control


take your pick.
power of course, what else, as nietzsches sister said, life is a struggle for power, thats our only goal
because they think you are sexy....
Hello again, the last two posts i had from you had no way back and were blocked, i hope this one will reach you. I was a victim of a very embittered mother- in -law, she hated life and everybody. Suffered alcohol dependency did every thing in her power to break her husbands business, but failed. She had 5 children and tried to wreck all of their marriages, in four of them she succeeded, but not in my case.


The reason is a mixture of one`s past experiences, and the lack of getting help in the time of need.


Now we have more trained medics to deal with these poor souls, and, unlike those old days when one had to pay, people seek help and fortunately there are less cases of this extreme manipulation around.





Other answers will show that the manipulation is for different reasons now.