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SOFTBOILEDPOTATOCHIP

When you express a boundary, they try to guilt trip you, pressure you, or threaten you to try and force you to do things you don’t want to do.

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cristianmezei

@Deepstash Co-founder. Tech geek. Dinosaur. Dad. Chef.

Seem easy to spot "bad" people right? Not always I guess. Reddit is really a treasure if you know what to look after. Thousand of folks gave their thoughts, and voted on other's. Ideas kind of make sense, by sheer statistical number, from people's perspective.

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