The trick with women, is to understand that they are all manipulative by nature ( it is instilled at birth as a survival means)
By knowing this it seems that when they are manipulating you, you are actually factoring that step into the equation and therefore getting what you wanted out of the situation at hand
it is like chess but only the players are real life instead of on a board, and the moves are endless not limited to one per turn.!!!
( dumb like a fox)
and to reveal what your plan was just to seem like you were not manipulated is a pitfall that many with big egos suffer from and therfore fail to accomplish the task at hand .