How to Avoid Manipulative Men

Sometimes effusive praise is a sign of extreme uncertainty.

Untitled by Clarence Holbrook Carter

A long, long time ago, back when the internet was quirky and old-fashioned and had horses tied up out front, not everyone knew what an emotional vampire was. You see, this was years before gurus armed with fancy fonts and expensive yoga pants herded onto the information superhighway and created a kind of logjam of ins…