Hopefully I will not be invited. In a million years.
This is my number one most hated behavior from someone. Either it’s friends, family, co-workers. Because you are using my emotion to get something that you want. You’re using fear, obligation, guilt (FOG). I never know about this until someone did a guilt tripping to me and I read about it.
It’s affecting me to not having a connection while I was genuinely interested having one. Also limiting the engagement.
This is why, we feel an obligation in ourself to do what they want, while actually, you’re still questioning yourself couple times.
And I know that guilt tripping its unconscious thing they do. I just hope that they talk about it directly and have more positive intention. Might also have a positive outcome.
Are we can still be free from this? No. You need to accept that in some circumstances, you will get that kind of treatment. And what you can do is only take a deep breath and act indifference. And there’s no second chance to connect.