3 SIGNS YOU HAVE TOXIC FRIENDS

Toxic relationships don’t just apply to romantic relationships. Sometimes, friendships with people can turn out just as abusive and damaging as you ever expect from them.

Rather than bringing company and comfort to your life, a toxic friendship will bring stress and frustration and a draining environment.

Toxicity starts from your inner circle, the very set of people who you give access to your life all in the name of friendship and family. And a lot of us do not know that these people are toxic or bad to us because we feel we can always change them or I say we can always fix them.

There 3 signs I will be addressing in this article to help you identify toxic friends around you.

 1.Constant Drama

One thing you can guarantee from a toxic person is drama. Chaos seems to surround them somehow, either because they’re always arguing with someone and causing problems, or because unbelievable things keep happening to them.

Whatever their story, you can guarantee you’ll hear about it, or worse, get dragged into it.

2. Everything is about them

A toxic friend will never really listen to you. They will always be waiting for their turn to speak, or to turn the conversation back to them. But then with a toxic person, everything revolves around them. They’ll twist it.”

A good way to test for this is by bringing up random topics that have nothing to do with either of you. A toxic person will have the uncanny ability to manipulate the conversation back around to them again, whatever the topic, without skipping a beat.

3. They constantly put you down

Toxic friends will never compliment you. They’ll never pick you up or congratulate you on your achievements. They’re much more likely to kick you when you’re down.

You’ll realize you’re never actually happy or relaxed around them because they don’t make you feel good about yourself, No friendship should be transactional, but if someone is draining all your energy, you should ask yourself whether you’re getting anything out of it at all.