Manipulative??

I realized I never really introduced myself on here...so hey everyone! 🙂 haha I hope to get to know you guys!

But onto my real question: are pisces notoriously manipulative, or do you feel like maybe you've been at some point?

I'm asking because I was recently called that, and when I dwelt on it for a while I remember that I'd been accused of being manipulative before. I can honestly say that I've never set out to be manipulative...and I was always hurt when my ex said I was guilting him to do something. Maybe on a sub-conscious level I'm making people feel this? haha I'm just always taken by surprise when anyone says that about me (it's not a whole lot, maybe like four times, but still). One of my best friend's a pisces, and she said that she has been called manipulative too, and she's probably the sweetest girl I know. Definitely not malicious like that. And call me biased but I don't think I am either. 🙂

Just wondering if any other pisces have any experience with this kind of accusation!

Here's the thing. Pisces, apparently, are supposed to be known as martyrs.
mar??tyr
—noun
1.a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
2.a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice.
3.a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering: a martyr to severe headaches.
4.a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.

So I think in our love to be the "sufferers", we often expect and/or hope (not maliciously, or maybe not even consciously) that people will give in to us at some point due to our suffering.

I will full out admit that I usually take (what I perceive to be) the high road - by means of being the suffering party of a situation - in hopes that my efforts will be rewarded with what I wanted all along.
a) this automatically makes it not the high road (conscious of my choice or not)
b) I'm pretty sure I've never been rewarded with what I wanted from this behaviour, or if I have it was a very short lived reward (and coming from this "manipulation" negates the genuineness of the reward, and therefore worthless to me).

And I apologize for ruining your topic!! I was too excited to respond, and dxp ef'd me! SORRY!!!

I think we are, but I doubt many of us are willing to admit it.

No sign has exclusivity on manipulating, or not manipulating people, we all do it a little, although some may more subtle about it than others.

Is Pisces better than 'average' at it? Possibly.


Have i manipulated people in past. Yes, and sometimes it's been because i felt like it, not because it was 'just' or for that other persons' 'own good'.

..and there's no point ruling out doing it again, because i might, and it might not be for anyone's benefit but mine.

*cackles*

Posted by whatshisface


Have i manipulated people in past. Yes, and sometimes it's been because i felt like it, not because it was 'just' or for that other persons' 'own good'.

I've done it just because I could.

I think it's somehow the combination of playful and introvert that makes people feel manipulated. It definitely makes you feel uneasy until you get to know 'em. Maybe someone can spin on that because I can't explain it any better. It's just a feeling I get.

I've manipulated people because I can (cancer)... but it's not so easy to do with other water signs. Like PP said, I try to use my watery powers for good nowadays.

I tried to manipulate my Pisces and he got me back in a covert, shocking manner. (mars in Scorpio)
He tried to manipulate me a little while ago and I got crazy in his face. (mars in Aries)

Both times, we just looked at each other at the end of it all and called it a day.

I usually convince people with good reason, common sense or hard evidence, so i find manipulation to be very* rare. If people are open, fair and "just" at the out-set, there's no need for cloaking.

I have experienced Pisces manipulation... innocently inquiring about things (I found insignificant at the time) then turn around and tried to use such info to their advantage/against me - backfired though!!!

Yeah, I'm manipulative. So is every single person I've ever met in my life. lol We just all go about it in different ways. It's those who view it as a way of life that are the dangerous ones. They should be avoided at all costs.

Pisces foster dependency on people who are close to them. Although they are independent, a Pisces will state their opinion and make sure that the advice they give to people are made so that it is to control rather than to influence that person, which a pisces may see as helping people. If a Pisces isn\'t \"influencing\" people, they secretly become sad that their advice (manipulation) isn\'t being taken for consideration, so they swim away...

Seen this plenty of times.

Ex: A Pisces guy wanted to dye his hair, but his Pisces girlfriend said that he would look like a queer and extremely stupid if he did, but he still dyed his hair, and she was pissed, so she couldn\'t bear to look at the guy without insulting him, which lead him to tell me that she could be a pain-in-the-ass at times and extremely manipulative when he wanted to do something that he liked or thought was cool...

Ah well, the key word here is to, \"pretend\". If you pretend you are taking their advice then you are in the gold. 😉

*Man, fuck sortilege, that prick, stupid virgo✨