emotional blackmail

In that sense this was a kind of emotional blackmail.

You just have to pay for it in actual money, not emotional blackmail.

This is, essentially, emotional blackmail for anyone with a family.

You're just using emotional blackmail to try and keep me at home.'

Some people even resort to emotional blackmail and games, which can end in making everyone unhappy.

You use emotional blackmail on a guy who's been like a father to you?

Emotional blackmail; Thelma had been subjected to it all her life.

"Do I hear overtones of emotional blackmail in that?"

I see the emotional blackmail has started - the "where's your empathy" rubbish.

This allegation has also been described as "emotional blackmail"

All of Maria Theresa's children were subject to her emotional blackmail.

Jones said Sophie is manipulative and uses emotional blackmail to get what she wants.

Emotional blackmail is no basis for a relationship.

Because the analysts resisted his attempts at emotional blackmail, Mr.

I have a short list of things I never do, and right near the top is surrendering to emotional blackmail.

And isn't expressionism often a kind of artistic emotional blackmail, trying to tell us what to feel?

That's how emotional blackmail and effective moral photojournalism work.

In it, he described his mother as a dominating woman who had used emotional blackmail to keep him in her political party.

It feels like emotional blackmail for this cause.

It's emotional blackmail, and she totally works me.

"But if I begged her to be part of my life again, well there would be emotional blackmail.

Using emotional blackmail and physical threats, the Bull sets about to make sure that he will be the only bidder.

She did so under protest, having no religious vocation, at the insistence-or emotional blackmail - of her family.

When subjected to emotional blackmail, "we become the other's emotional hostage."

Anything further amounts to emotional blackmail, as she is using her illness as leverage to force his hand.