How Exaggeration Sabotages Your Relationships

Key points

Exaggeration is commonly used for communication and manipulation.

Habitual use of exaggeration makes others feel deceived, tricked, manipulated, exploited, and abused.

Direct and accurate communication almost always produces better results with less risk to relationships.

Exaggeration is often used, sometimes habitually, for two reasons. Some individuals use it as a form of emotional self-expression. Other times it is used to manipulate others. In either circumstance, it leaves others feeling deceived , tricked, manipulated, exploited, and abused. While exaggeration may sometimes be successful at achieving some short-term goals , it causes significant damage to relationships. There are ways of achieving the same short-term goals without hurting others in your life.

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