Puppeteer?

[user 188522]

Do you get puppeteered? I now cut off ties with family members who try this with me.

 

[TheRealCallie]

That honeysuckle doesn't work on me. I do what I want and say what I want. Unless they have a logical reason I shouldn't say it do something, no one deters me.

 

[constant stranger]

I compromised with family puppeteering. I accepted some manipulations in return for some cooperation with my own agenda.
Did it balance out? I told myself that it did.....enough of the time that I thought it was acceptable.
But by the onset of the endgame, (and I'm the last one of the family left alive) I realized that I had made a bad bargain.
I inherited the whole estate but I wish I had controlled my life's trajectory a lot more than I did.

 

[Finished]

I'm so glad I blew off the rest of my family years ago.

 

[user 188522]

That honeysuckle doesn't work on me. I do what I want and say what I want. Unless they have a logical reason I shouldn't say it do something, no one deters me.

Callie, I wish I was more like you!

 

[user 139760]

Well, I'm a big fan of Jim Henson's.
Oh wait...
None of my family do it much. My grandfather didn't teach manipulation to my dad and his siblings and they didn't teach it to us, for the most part. I consider myself lucky, because it's rare to have family you can actually depend on. My mother's side is quite different. Don't see them much either.