A control freak cannot help advising others and pointing out others' mistakes. He or she will try to mend other people and try to make them perfect. Or at least, what they think is perfect. They continually try to impose their own thinking and behavior on others, and try to align them to their own value system. 


Controlling symtoms include: 

• Telling a person what to do; and how to do it – instead of allowing them to do it their own way
• Insisting you know what is right for someone else
• Insisting your way is the right way (my way or the highway)