How to End a Toxic Friendship

Video Transcript

"Hi are you struggling with a toxic relationship? Would you like to know how to end a toxic relationship? Well I'm Dr. Felicia and I like to share a few tips with that. Ending a toxic relationship is first problem of course to identify the fact that it is toxic. A toxic relationship is one that the person makes you feel bad all the time or makes you act out of character, for instance they upset you and sends you off in a screaming rage when in fact you are usually a very calm person. So something they did or said irritated you. Or they may slight you and maybe possess something that you have of your own and try to take it away from you. Those are certainly things that you don't want in a friendship. For instance if they are overly jealous of what you have, if they feel that they need to put you down in order to make themselves feel like a better person, if they ridicule you in front of others. If they disrespect you in front of others, those are all toxic. And they undermine everything that you pretty much stand for. Somehow we do get hooked into these relationships and at the beginning it all seems great and there might be one person who's aggressive and one who is passive and so you are willing to take the aggressive person on but after a while that aggression kind of overcomes your own personality and smothers you. That becomes toxic. When your personality is so smothered in this other person wishes, desires, and promotions then you need to take a hard look in that toxic relationship. There's only one way to really do that because their obviously insensitive in the first place or they wouldn't be toxic is you are going to have to take a hard stand and really just cut that relationship cold and stop responding to that person. It's a hard stand to take if you are passive to begin with but you are going to have to do it to end that toxic relationship, you have to take extreme measures. I do wish you good luck with this. This is Dr. Felicia signing out on how to end a toxic relationship. Good luck and God Bless."