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I appreciate the advice on how to avoid these emotional vampires, but what I really want to know is how to attract the vampire in the image you used for the story!
Um, the vampires in Twilight are pretty emotional… combat them with hugs?
No but seriously, I’m pretty sure my best friend is a splitter, and I’ve tried a number of things in the past, but I find that calling them on their clear cut cognitive dissonance issues, often makes them reflect a little more about the congruence of their day to day behaviour.
Hi Theresa,
Great post with some good practical advice on protection. I wanted to add;
How do we know who are energy vampires?
The energy of some people is just lovely and we feel so good when we are in their presence. However, there are other people whose energy is just plain nasty to be around.
If we are not careful and don’t know what to do we can start to feel drained when we are around them and quite literally experience changes in our own energy.
For example; If you are in a good space and “for no reason” start to feel drained and kind of powerless, chances are you got zapped by one of those vampires.
Thanks
Dawn Pugh
LOL, your funny, but here is something funnier….
I see you broke it all down and split everything up, but what if the vampire is all the above?
So much effort to combat against, so many directions, only confusing oneself falling right into the trap!
Oh this vampire that holds all the above must be a powerful little vermin,,,lol
Great article!
Check this out:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/08/04/how-to-spot-a-narcissist/
this sounds an awful lot like an article i read in oprah magazine about emotional “muggers”. it identified various types of emotional muggers and then suggested strategies for emotional self defense called emoto! maybe this is a different theme by same author. a step up would be to look at yourself and ponder if you fit into one of these characters and are a vampire yourself. victims beware… this article was written especially for you.
These tips will drag the relationship out and give the emotional vampire more time to uncover weaknesses for them to exploit.
Just eject the troublesome friend by saying the following words “I don’t want anything to do with you so just go away.”(or any derivative thereof).
It may not be politically correct but it will solve the problem of having to deal with the vampire.