Honestly Iād take this a step further and say you can even manipulate what they feel with your words, actions and through remote energetic influence.
But you canāt change their will unless yours is stronger than theirs and that means you canāt control their actions unless your will is stronger than theirs.
Personally my willpower fluctuates- depends on the subject etc, so to keep someone under control is more work than itās worth. Thatās not something Iām interested, I want to influence things to my favor but ultimately Iād it takes dominating someone else to have it, I donāt care that much.
Itās much nicer to be wanted by someone who wants to want me and hasnāt been coerced or manipulated.
I can say for certain my husbands feels are real and he would choose me without a magic influence because I didnāt magic him into loving me.
Ultimately Iāve had issues with people not trusting me if they new I used magic too. As soon as people actually see an example what you can do with magic, they get all antsy on whether or not youāve ever done it to them.
And how can they be sure. All of a sudden your best friend wonāt trust you because well, they saw what you did there, so what makes them any different that you wouldnāt do the same to them.
Iāve done that shit a dozen times, where I was not trusted just because I can do something they canāt understand. Geese I can knit too, but that doesnāt make me untrustworthyā¦Iām not going to knit you thong for grandmas funerealā¦
So idk. In my experience the average person will become suspicious if you use most any sort of influence on them and they find out you practice any sort of magic or prayer craft.
They might not have any damned reason to think you did something, but something niggles at their subconscious once they know and they donāt ever seem to get over it lol
Granted Iāve only had this happen with people who didnāt start out believing in energetic or spiritual influences. When people believe in it already, Iāve not had any issues, so it seems to be related to the trauma of realizing oh shit the impossible is real and Iām vulnerable as fuck.