What Is a Bad Friend?

How to Get Over A Friendship Breakup

1. Acknowledge your pain. First, know that your grief is normal.
2. Practice self-care.
3. Avoid rumination.
4. Exercise.
5. Talk to someone.
6. Read about others in your situation.
7. Try a new friend group.
8. Examine what went wrong in the friendship.

Best friends forever are supposed to last, well, forever, and losing one can be a very rough, painful, emotional experience. Sometimes the distress feels more intense than what comes from a romantic breakup. But, while it’s not easy, do keep in mind that it’s a common experience through which many folks suffer.

8 Steps to Closure When a Friendship Ends

1. Compose a good-bye letter. Of course, no one is going to read it.
2. Pluck out the feeling. Sometimes feelings need a little nudging in order for us to acknowledge and process them.
3. Plan a ritual.
4. Fill the space with something new.
5. Get even.
6. Make a plan.
7. Stay with the pain.
8. Don’t take it personally.

Sorting out your emotions is the first step to healing. Also, remember that it’s okay to grieve the loss of a friendship. While it might seem silly to mourn the loss of a friend, grieving is often an effective way to move past a difficult breakup.

• Overly competitive with you.
• Likely to encourage bad behaviors.
• Unreliable.
• Combative (like to start fights)
• Rude.
• Mean or degrading (make you feel bad)
• Prone to gossip.
• Likely to bully you or others.

Much like psychopaths, toxic people are expert in how to control and manipulate others. They always know the words and actions that will send shock waves through you, set you on edge, put you into a tailspin of doubt, confusion, anxiety and worry.

Some of the common signs of a toxic parent or parents include:

• Highly negatively reactive. Toxic parents are emotionally out of control.
• Lack of empathy. The toxic person or parent is not able to empathize with others.
• Extremely controlling.
• Highly critical.
• Blaming everyone else.

Signs of Manipulation

1. They know your weaknesses and how to exploit them.
2. They use your insecurities against you.
3. They convince you to give up something important to you, to make you more dependent on them.

How To Outsmart A Master Manipulator

1. Avoid contact with a master manipulator.
2. Say no to being manipulated.
3. Ignore the would be manipulator.
4. Set personal boundaries.
5. Set goals and you will notice if someone tries to manipulate you away from them.
6. Assume responsibility for what you do.

Examples of Manipulative Behavior

• Passive-aggressive behavior.
• Implicit threats.
• Dishonesty.
• Withholding information.
• Isolating a person from loved ones.
• Gaslighting.
• Verbal abuse.
• Use of sex to achieve goals.

Signs of gaslighting

• no longer feeling like the person you used to be.
• being more anxious and less confident than you used to be.
• often wondering if you’re being too sensitive.
• feeling like everything you do is wrong.
• always thinking it’s your fault when things go wrong.
• apologizing often.

Here are eight signs you’re with someone who is manipulative.

• They always want to know what you’re doing and who you’re seeing.
• You find yourself apologizing a lot to them for things you didn’t really think you did wrong.
• You feel like they’re constantly judging you.

6- Manipulators are always insecure. They fear that if they aren’t in control, then something may happen to them that they aren’t prepared for. Remember this: The control gives them a false sense of security; however, it should never take controlling another person to make a person feel secure.

Most of the manipulators are pathological liars. Lies are actually the essence of every successful manipulation. If they have you believe what they want you to believe, they will have you do what they want you to do, it’s that simple.

How to Stop Being Gaslighted

1. When you’re with a gaslighter, be very aware of what they’re saying and doing around you.
2. Create an untouchable belief of yourself and what you know to be true.
3. Keep it simple when dealing with the gaslighter and know their true motive is one thing.