Notice attempts to manage another person’s choices, movement, relationships, or independence.
Before you use this with another personUse communication, repair, return, or contact only when it is lawful and the other person is willing. If a court order limits contact, location, or communication, follow it exactly. A coping or communication skill never creates permission to call, text, message, visit, follow, return, or use another person to pass a message.
What it is
Controlling behavior is an attempt to manage another person’s choices, movement, relationships, access, communication, or independence.
How to do it
Ask whether you are trying to manage their choice.
Ask whether they would feel free to say no.
Notice pressure, guilt, monitoring, money, intimidation, or persistence.