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Originally posted by Auron Stiner:
I had a telemarketer try this on me.

My understanding is that a lot of telemarketers are trained not to accept "No" as an answer.

If they can keep you on the line, their odds of succeeding increases of finding a 'chink' they can exploit.

Much more difficult to sell you something when you have hung up (removed yourself from the situation).

But the area in which we have the most difficulty is our personal life.

A parent, sibling, friend or boss may be using similiar tactics to get their way.

We can be quite blind to the tactics used by these people since we may prefer to believe they "care" deeply about us.

If so, we are probably in denial that someone we love/like/dependant upon would use us in such a way.

And if we try to questioning it, we are brought face to face with the possibility that s/he may not love or like us.

For a lot of people that can be incredibly painful.

The need to be loved or liked can be so great that it aborts any 'real' attempt to take control of their lives and change their situation.

In such a situation, the please disease is in full operation.