It's easy to recognize people around us who want to control us and other people. It's harder to recognize controlling behaviors of our own! What is a controlling person? It's someone who needs to have ...

For example, some parents may want to avoid coming across as controlling, knowing the damaging results it can have (which ...

Have you ever had a friend who suddenly disappears off the social scene, changes her appearance, or gives up her goals and unique personality traits at the beginning of a relationship? Most likely, ...

Controlling behavior is a pretty awful trait to have. No one likes to be called controlling, and even fewer want to admit that they are controlling, even when people point it out to them. But ...

Having a controlling person in your life can be difficult to navigate and even more challenging if that person is your partner. Controlling tendencies may not always be so obvious on a day-to-day ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As members of Gen X and Millennials became parents, the general trend of having more money and time for children continued, ...

Controlling behavior can be incredibly detrimental to a relationship. And it's not always easy to know you're being too controlling until it's already damaged your relationship. That being said, there ...

With OCD, control is a defensive attempt to manage internal anxiety. It usually doesn’t involve intentional efforts to control other people. OCPD, on the other hand, can involve controlling behaviors.

In all of my years of blogging for Psychology Today, the piece that has generated the most user mail and views—by a very large margin—is my piece about the signs of a controlling relationship. As ...