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A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please - or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi "This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
Philip K. Dick When you stop rewarding manipulative tactics by ceasing to cooperate, comply, please, acquiesce, apologize or respond to intimidation or threats, you will unilaterally alter the nature of the manipulative relationship."
How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life,"
by Dr. Braiker
How to Deal with Annoying People
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/how_to_100/114_how_to.html When Words Become Weapons: Verbal Abuse, Participant's Guide
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/famlf2/GT346A.PDF How Verbal Self Defense Works, Suzette Haden Elgin, PhD
http://people.howstuffworks.com/vsd.htm
http://people.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=vsd.htm&url=http://www.adrr.com/aa/ The Art of Saying No
http://www.impactfactory.com/gate/assertiveness_
skills_training_saying_no_too_nice/fungate_1741-4102-18850.html How to Deal with Power Freak Relatives During the Holidays
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/11/prweb49806.php Win Win Negotiation Strategies
http://www.insiderreports.com/storypage.asp_Q_ChanID_E_BZ_A_StoryID_E_20000423 How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
http://www.albernstein.com/id98.htm Boundaries
http://www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/Articles/boundaries.htm Coping With Toxic People
http://breakups101.com/toxicpeople.html Boundaries
http://www.patiencepress.com/samples/boundari.html
http://www.skysite.org/boundaries.html
Setting Limits in Relationships
http://www.cyberparent.com/women/limits.htm People Pleasing? Having Trouble Saying "No?"
http://www.kalimunro.com/article_pleasing.html Learning to Say No
http://www.altrue.net/site/luke173/content.php?type=1&id=6960
Ways to Say No
http://or.essortment.com/waystosayno_rqjd.htm Lessons About Emotional Detachment, Part 2 Setting Boundaries
http://incestabuse.about.com/cs/mentalhealth/a/emotiondetach_2.htm Setting Boundaries - How I did It
http://www.geocities.com/kerry_l_dennis/MPD/Articles/boundaries.html
Verbal Abuse and how to respond
http://www.whitesoftheirlies.com/site/wotl/articles/blackmail.htm Your Power to Say No by Vernon Howard
http://www.whitesoftheirlies.com/site/wotl/articles/no.htm Assertiveness Training (some good hints & techniques)
http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap13/chap13e.htm Emotional Blackmail & verbal tactics to use
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BPD/blackmail.html Boundaries and verbal abuse site Boundaries and Verbal Abuse by Sidney Langston
http://members.aol.com/elrophe/boundariesabuse.html
http://members.aol.com/elrophe/articles.htm How to Deal With Control Freaks
http://www.ec-online.net/Knowledge/Articles/control.html Just Say "No" by Laura Wilkinson
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/verbal_emotional_abuse/70151 How to Deal with An Abuser Without Getting Defensive
http://drirene.com/with_an_abuser.htm
Boundaries - by Dr. Irene
http://www.drirene.com/boundari.htm
How to Deal With an Abuser When Words Don't Work
http://drirene.com/when_words.htm
Communicating with an Abuser
http://www.drirene.com/language_analysis.htm Controlling diverting & manipulation in conversations
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Abuse/breakfree/mind.html Some verbal response suggestions from a taxi driver Non-escalating verbal self defence
http://www.taxi1010.com/ How to deal with an Overbearing Mother
http://www.ehow.com/how_15126_deal-with-overbearing.html Recognizing and Defusing Angry Situations (Bait Handling skills)
http://www.work911.com/products/defuse2.htm
Part 2
http://www.work911.com/articles/defusingpeople1.htm Setting Boundaries
http://www.joy2meu.com/Personal_Boundaries.htm 
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