0 someone who is determined to make things happen in exactly the way they want and who tries to make other people do what they want --
Recovery for them entails recognising that being a control freak helped paradoxically preserve codependency itself.
She is a perfectionist and a control freak; however, she can be just as lazy as her husband.
She is a pathological personality, the textbook definition of a control freak.
The married man is standing on the red light, can't move a finger without the approval of his control freak wife.
She is an emotional type, and a bit of a self-confessed control freak, especially when it comes to her daughters.
The media describes a hard-working perfectionist with clear self-direction who is occasionally regarded as competitive and a control freak.
He is a well-known control freak.
We hear a lot about the control freak tendency.