Melody Zindell comments on the Piece Of Work Boyfriend Is Back blog:

“A favorite book of mine, one that I am quite passionate about relative to helping people lift the veils of subtle and insidious control is "Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You " by Patricia Evans. Some of us are more susceptible than others, but it is the m.o. of the world in general and so we don’t even realize what’s happening. The book can be a real eye opener.”
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Pulling this up for levity. Do you have an emphasis on the Cardinal signs? Think you can control others? Har! Best think again. (from 2007)

Dear Aquarius,

You can get anything or anyone you want in life? I am afraid I disagree with you. There are legions of people out there who have lost a friend or a lover, wished for and wanted them back… and failed to have this manifest. The other person has something to say about it.. The other person has free will and as an Aquarian, you should inherently understand this. That people are going to do what they want, that is.

This guy apparently wants to fantasize about butterflies. He might like to see them flying around his beloved’s head… or perhaps they are in his stomach, I don’t know. But he does not want to be in a relationship with you, at least not the one you imagine.

Now here’s a tip: you have Venus and Mars in Aries. You also have planets in Capricorn, Saturn in the first and you wish to control things, especially others. So now you want to get this guy to do something, and I would not be the least bit surprised if this were at the root of why you lost him in the first place.

People don’t like to be controlled and manipulated (Pluto in Scorpio in aspect to Venus and Mars) so when they meet someone controlling and manipulative, they tend to make like a butterfly and fly away.

Good luck.

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This is from 2008, in honor of the current sky where Venus in Leo opposes Neptune and Jupiter in Aquarius which is very similar to the energy in my natal chart. The text below is from February 2009 and requires no update.

I claimed (quite correctly) that at least 40 men had proposed to me in my life and Bella asked on Venus Neptune Getting Married:

What is the astrology for that level of proposal mania?

I stated I had to dodge weddings as if they were bullets and I am reposting this because it takes on a new meaning when you have the back story.
Continue reading 1 Minute Astrology – Venus, Neptune, Love And Delusion: People Who Want To Marry You (In Droves) When They Don’t Even Like You…

From 2009: How I learned not I could not (and should not) try to control people at work…

Are you a control freak? Tell us about one of your boundaries!

Back when I was pregnant, I had this gal cleaning my teeth. She was about my age, maybe a little older and she chatted as she worked.

Having finished the horrible scraping part of the procedure, it was time to polish. She said she had several flavors of polish and since pregnant women are sometimes queasy, she was going to allow me to choose the flavor.

“You can have pina colada, cherry or mint,” she said.

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Thus is from 2007: What’s a dog to do?

To update for 2010, I think (more) people are going to discover they have feelings similar to mine as Pluto in Capricorn, etc. brings primal feelings, like the fear of survival to their consciousness.

From 2007 - There is a T-square in the Cardinal signs, people want to control other people. On that note – this:
Paul, a regretful control freak tells a story on Henry... (also, the person I am talking about here is LUPA.