Toxic relationships are nothing new – whether you’ve been at the mercy of a gaslighting boyfriend or an overbearing friend, all of us have had some experience or other with a person we’ve had to get rid of.
As women, we’re known to share more emotional bonds with other ladies (while men tend to base their friendships more on shared activities), making it particularly hard for us when it comes to letting go of toxic friends.
Occupational hazard
Unlike in a relationship, where you and your partner have to have frank discussions about your feelings, it can be awkward to discuss your problems when it comes to friendships .
In their book Toxic Friendships: Knowing the Rules and Dealing with the Friends Who Break Them, authors Suzanne Degges-White and Judy Pochel Van Tieghem identify two types of toxic friends. First, there are the people you intuitively feel are bad for you. Usually, they make you feel worse after you’ve been hanging out with them, or you suddenly realise you’ve been trying to avoid them without realising it. The other type revolves around actual situations that could be toxic. For example, when a friend only wants to hang out with you when she needs something, or when she isolates you from other relationships and you feel like you’re constantly defending them.
The space between
This story is from the June 2017 edition of CLEO Singapore.
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