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A former friend called me toxic. What does that mean, exactly?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 657985" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>To me 'toxic people' (I do hate the phrase, I find it dehumanizing) are people with you have a relationship that is not good for you. Those people may be abusive or they make drag out the side of you that is abusive. Or you may end up doing things that are harmful to you or others when you are with them.</p><p></p><p>I personally have cut most contact with someone, who was so darn helpless and infuriatingly naive that I had to bite my tongue all the time not to become sarcastic or mean. She was 'toxic' to me, because with her, my behaviour was in danger to deteriorate. And I want to add that someone else would likely not find her that helpless or naive, something in her just stroke a very bad cord in me. Luckily we were never close so I didn't actually need to explain her why I started avoiding her (if I would had to, I would had lied and blamed being busy or something like that. No reason to upset her just because I react to her badly.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 657985, member: 14557"] To me 'toxic people' (I do hate the phrase, I find it dehumanizing) are people with you have a relationship that is not good for you. Those people may be abusive or they make drag out the side of you that is abusive. Or you may end up doing things that are harmful to you or others when you are with them. I personally have cut most contact with someone, who was so darn helpless and infuriatingly naive that I had to bite my tongue all the time not to become sarcastic or mean. She was 'toxic' to me, because with her, my behaviour was in danger to deteriorate. And I want to add that someone else would likely not find her that helpless or naive, something in her just stroke a very bad cord in me. Luckily we were never close so I didn't actually need to explain her why I started avoiding her (if I would had to, I would had lied and blamed being busy or something like that. No reason to upset her just because I react to her badly.) [/QUOTE]
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