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8 Signs Your Best Friend Is Becoming Toxic

8 Signs Your Best Friend Is Becoming Toxic

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Do you have a toxic best friend? Have you ever had a toxic friend in your life? Toxic friendships are hard to escape, especially if you two have been through a lot together. Oftentimes, toxic friendships dont start out that way; they start out happy, fun, and exciting, but turn dysfunctional over time. So, how do you know if your friendship is becoming toxic? Here are 8 warning signs you need to watch out for that your best friend is becoming toxic for you
Date: 2023-08-20

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im strugging with a friend turned toxic. we starsting working on a model rocket last year. and we wert going to lanch it untill summer this year. i was busy most of the winter, spring, and fall because my sister had basketball, softball, and soccer every weekend and weekday, and i do taekwondo. so im busy. but i would help run the score board at basketball so i can do something other than play on my phone, but when he texted me an idea about the rocket i would respond because if i look away i could miss somthing to turn the score board up or down a point or pause it. but when i did not respond he would say never mind, i allready know you will say its bad and not to do it and now i realize that alot of these things he said were to manipulate me to get what he wants, and i did not know this untill after ourt fight. but that realy made me mad. and he knew i was busy so it was an intentional attempt to manipulate me. and when i did respond i would say it looks good but it can be improved, w eare not launching untill august. but he would respond saying you just dont like it never mind we dont need it just forget i even said this. which i liked the idea, but i can be improved on because we have time. he decided to build the intire thing on his own terms and made it terrible. the capsule was made of who plasitc cups taped together. the fins where misaligned, the parachute was a walmart plastic bag, and the engine hole was cut terribly. i expressed conserns about the capsule saying we should make it better! i like it but how but we continue to innovate it, afterall we have time! but he would say its fine we dont need to make it better and i woild tell him that they make cars better and they are fine and he would say yeah but i dosent have to be perfect. i told him that plastic bags wont do good, ive done egg drops in the past beofore and plastic bag parachutes fail miserably and just add weight. and he said he would get some. but the final product did not haev good parachutes, it wa sa oplatic bag spun around the rocket attached to a rope. and i did not even commet on the nose cone being bent or the misaligned fins because he would try to manipulate me and being jsut a total bummhoe. but then out of the blue he launched it on a rainy muddy and windy day! he did not even ask me. he just went ahead and launched it. we argued on text, and he said that it only got muddy. i finaly talked to him again after a week, and when i aked why did he not ask me he said i tryed texting you 100 times and i called you 50 times! and none of them went through. and this made me mad beacuse i knew he was lieing because he tryed to call and texted me multiple times after the launch. so no way they somehow mysteriously did not go through. so i decided to make my own rocket and woek on my own classifed rocket so he does not have to make everything in it and i can use my own ideas and i waited for a few weeks to tell him. but after i told him the next day he calls me and says he making a rocket and a model plane then im going to make a rocket plane. so he took what i did, and then tryed to make it better. i have not talked to him for a while, untill yesterday when he texted me. i was busy, and coild not respond, so he just sent it again and again until i answered. and he said he made a vow no to play a video game untill he made shure we where friends, zo what i took from that was he is lying to me and just decided to say yeah, i just wanna make you respond because i made you feel bad. he sent me a photo of the rocket that he finished painting and i doid not respond becaus ei was busy and just was going to respond later. but he sent it again so i answered and i said cool. then he asked how my rocket is doing and i said good, but he only responded with Ok! no any new things done with it, or is it built, or can i see? just ok. this realy made me upset. but im not gonna send him anything that hes not gonna ask for. im happy he did not ask for photos though, because in the past i have shown him stuff ive made and hes copyed and remade them and claimed them as his own, so i fear he would have stolen the design. but science he texted me we have not talked. but he never is avalable anymore. last time we tryed to hang out he was busy seloing stuff for his Boy Scouts which is understandable, but when he was done he asked if i could come over and i said no sorry my grandma is here she was visiting for a few days because my mom had the night shift. so i asked if i could come later but he said no sorry my girl friend is coming over. and recently it seems like hes been schudling things with his girlfriend every day, and if i wanted to come over he would have something planned. hes said that when i come over we will launch the rocket. he did't try to ask when i could come over he just said when i do. so he dosent seem to care if i come over. but being with him drains me and i dread coming over to his house, and i genuinely dont ever want to see him again. my best friend tells me i should dump him and i should just move on, but ive been friend with him for so long and i am scared to hurt him. what should i do?
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Sorry this is so long.
Im going through this right now, and Im having a really hard time. My friend is always looking for something to be angry at me about. For example, Tuesday night I had to pack because I had to wake up at 4 am to go the the airport. My friend asked if they could call, but I explained that it wasnt a good time and that I had to focus on packing and that I would end up getting distracted if I was on the phone with them. They called after I expressed that it wasnt a good time and that I would call the next day since it was a 3 hour flight only. I got a bit annoyed and repeated the same thing that it wasnt a good time and wed talk tomorrow. The next day when I called them, they were pissed off. They were say things like: you could have put your phone on speaker so we could talk, you could have done this, your a bad friend. I explained that it wasnt a good time to talk so then being mad is pure bs and entitlement. We had a whole conversation and I had to apologize because doesnt matter how much I explain my side or how I feel, they dont care. That same evening, they sent a whole text message saying how horrible I am to them and they are tired of it. They are always the victim, and Im the bad guy. Its always my fault and Im so tired of being made to feel like that, like Im a crap friend. This friend goes as far as saying that Im not there for them when I always listen to their problems, reassure them and everything. I dont call 1 day and Im a bad friend. I dont respond a text right away and they get angry. Doesnt matter how much I do, its never enough. Theres a huge double standard as well. I respect their boundaries, but when I put a boundary Im a bad friend. I love my friend and the idea of ending the friendship is painful, but it sucks to be hyper anxious all the time, and being brought to tears by my best friend, because they constantly make me feel like a crap person. My friend does not respect my feelings at all.

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So, Ive got this friend and she isnt able to keep promises we make together, example: there was a secret I told her about (it was that she wasnt the nicest person to the daughter of a friend of my mom) and later I heard from my mother she basically attacked her via snap.
Or (this happened multiple times) I (for example) do something she doesnt really like, or she adds someone to a groupsapp (which I have/had beef with) without asking it first.
I kindly stated that I did not want him in the groupsapp, she told me my opinion didnt matter.
And I just now discovered that she had created a different groupsapp (our old group was called the gang and she called it the better gang it was basically that entire group without me (nobody in the group said anything about it btw.
Stuff like the above has happened many times and are very hard to look past for me.
It recently came to my mind to finish the friendship but then again, Ive had/am having many great memories with her.
She has changed over the past two years and so did our friendship.
I mean, we first started out as enemies.
I think Ill give her some time and then rethink the things shes done and contemplate wether I should quit my friendship with her or not.
(Btw, the friengroup the gang is basically dead for me I barely hang out with them anymore, two other girls specially were/are really fake)

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I looked up how to know if you have a toxic friend because I dont know if my best friend is becoming toxic. I need help, I dont want to unfriend her if she isnt. Weve known each other for almost three years. I met her at the start of grade six and now Im in grade 8 going into grade 9 next year. Lately shes been constantly mad at me for no reason. And if there is a reason she wont tell me. I do one thing wrong and she yells at me instead of asking me to not do it again. She repeats talking about her problems almost everyday, they never change. She doesnt listen to me when I talk, and she cuts me off a lot. She hits me for no reason and also when shes mad at me. She ignores me a lot too then gets mad at me when I do something I asked if she wanted to do to join in. It happens way to often for her to be just not hearing me. Its getting hard for me to turn my back to her. She is quickly loosing my trust and its getting harder for me to keep my guard down around her like I can with my other friends. Before this started happening I barely ever flinched, like it took me a lot to flinch. But now its getting so bad that I flinch when someone brings their arm towards me like for a handshake, but that might be because of family problems as well. If anyone reads this please tell me what I should do
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It has come to my attention that my best friend is toxic. I just realized that my best friend is all of these and more. She makes fun of my weight, hobbies, interests, style, and overall appearance. She physically hurts me and lies about doing so. She tries to compete with me over her boyfriend which whom I have no interest in at all, and we even used to be friends until she ruined our friendship. She does horrible things and blames them on me. Whenever she comes over to my house she makes messes (which she doesnt ever clean up, trashs my house, she has even called my mom ugly and fat on multiple occasions. She lies about everything and calls me the liar. If that wasnt enough she has never been there for me, and every call, every text, every conversation has been about her and if I come up in anything she quickly changes the topic to something about her. We used to laugh, hangout everyday, have fun together, etc, but now she has ruined the entire friendship. I have almost zero friends now because she has turned them against me. I am absolutely done with her bull sht.
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My bff one time I was putting duct tape on our wrists on a sleepover and she was like my wrists are skinner and now I'm self conscious of my arms and our wrists are the same size except maybe mine are 1 cm bigger and she always was lying to me about not being this girl's friend I don't like the girl and I told her the first time it's ok and then I saw her talking to the other girl again and she was like oh I was too scared to tell you and she didn't wanna be my friend like 5 times this year because I had 3 other friends that's all my friends my school ends in 13 days on the last day I'm done being her friend she even broke me so much I hate being her friend I'm just waiting for her to minot be my friend she's broken my trust and there's nothing there anymore so I'm ending it and NOT forgiving her this time in DONE I have better friends then her I literally lie to her so I don't have to play with her because there's nothing there she broke me too much the first time she didn't wanna be my friend I cried the fifth time I rolled my eyes and just forgave her
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So, this my story: i hang out with this girl since 6th grade, at first she's so sweet, caring and did anything what a true friend did but at did end of our school semester, she started being different. First, i told her that i had a crush on our senior, i told her not to tell anyone and she said yes. But then she told literally everyone in middle school about my crush, still remember all those teasing i got bc of that situation. Then, in 7th grade i stared having feelings for someone at school, when i told her about it she said she will never tell anyone about my crush like she did before, but then she asked me my crush's ig account and i eventually gave her, whatta mistake! She started chatting with him and started telling me about their conversation. I remember how hurt i was when she told me that, but i didn't say anything because if i say anything she will always play the role of the victim.
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Ive had this friend for over 3 years now and we would have augments so often and she wouldnt apologise and every time I made a new friend she would ask how long have u been friends with them? Where did u meet them? Can I add them? Then she would add them then I would always find her talking with her and Im not allowed to join. Whenever we r arguing shes always really toxic and swears heaps and ignores me until I say sorry Im the only one that ever apologies even if I did nothing wrong and she would always bring up past arguments Im not sure what to do because she is friends with all my other friends. Rn were in an argument again and this ALWAYS Happens so since shes friends with all my other friends I just say sorry so theres no augments with all my other friends. What do I do.
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so me and my best friend are like each others only friends lol. And I feel shes toxic 1. She embarrasses me in front of others
2. She roasts me in public that is really annoying
3. She makes me angry and uses it against me
4. for eg I find something offensive like she calls me a fat chunky idiot I say that offended me, she says that Im easily offended however she literally calls evidence an insult and every time I try to confront her or start a polite arguement she has loads of comebacks that she can use to win even though she has no point. Its like Im her shadow. The only reasons I cry these days is because of her. However I still love her and shes my bestie at the end of the day. I forgot to mention SOMETIMES like. 000001 of the time she can be a pick me

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I feel like me and my best friend are both becoming toxic to eachother. But what made me start becoming toxic was her. I'm pretty sure I have anger issues and so when she jokes she takes it too seriously and gets mad at me and then I get mad at her. A lot of times its because of me that starts fights because I can't control my emotions. But then when I try to explain how I feel to her SHE DOESNT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. Sometimes I want for myself to change but its hard to act better when she can't act better towards me either. Its like a relationship where the husband and wife fight a lot but also has good times but if it was in a friendship. I just wish it would stay happy
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The making you feel insecure, and the last one are kind of true my friend. I told her that I felt chubby, but I was fine with it and then she was like Ill be chubby with you one day and then like a few months later shes like I am I want to be skinny I want to be and it just made me feel like I didnt have anybody that cared about how my body is about my body and no one cared that I was about how I looked but I didnt this point I dont feel like being around them because every single time I talk to them or I show them and I tried to tell them some thing and Im in argument then they dont care. It doesnt feel like theyre real anymore. It makes them feel toxic.
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My friend decided to meet up one weekend but there was a misunderstanding and one half of the friend group took it badly and left then 5 days later my friend (who was still mad at me even tho I did nothing wrong) sent me a text that said hi. I was rlly confused bc she wasnt talking to me irl but was texting me? So I tried to talk to her the next day and got ignored. So I asked her in text and she responded
Well maybe u should make an effort to talk to me and Ill talk to u and I was rlly confused and dont know if she is toxic. But after a few days of thinking I left the group and made a new one. Was this the right choice?

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I been dealing with this for a couple of days I have BFF she got me a BFF bracelet she doesnt even wear it I wear it more then her she gave me a excuse that she forgot it at home and yesterday she disrespected me she hung up on my face twice I called her to talk about why she saying she doesnt care about me that she cares about her mans more then me thats were it all started her saying that then when I called her she was with another dude out meanwhile her real boyfriend was at school and I told him everything and he dose not care
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My best friend always spreads rumors abt me and is rude but plays it off as a joke. Shes really rude sometimes and doesnt care about me much, and often says she would and could murder me for her other best friend (who she also called ugly. She shares my secrets and often talks behind my back, so I cant trust her. But I /cant/ drop her bc Im in a friend group that she leads, that bullies almost everyone, and everyone will take her side.
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I didn't realized I had a toxic friendship group until 2-3 months ago where I finally cut them off.
For abit, I kind of regret it.
But now, I never felt so much happier without them!
For months I've been feeling so down that I thought I was the problem, and turns out it was them. I keep blaming myself yet I was blind to the obvious.
But I'm glad I'm out of the so called friendship off! I never felt so much happier. :')

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Right now my best friend has been toxic and I feel like ending the friendship because Im exhausted from having to keep up with her and she has done and said things she thinks wont be that bad or hurt me much but they hurt me so bad and some issues with me go down hill and I start not doing well and feeling sick. I feel like ending this friendship but I dont want to hurt her and stuff even though shes adding to my issues
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Having had a toxic BFF, I actually learned a lot and I made sure my friends do this: lift me up, respect me, make me feel safe. Anything short of this is just not worth my time and effort anymore. Be careful with forgiving bad behavior of a friend, true friends never want to hurt you and listen to you. It's totally fine to drift apart with those who don't and especially when you see pattern around that behavior
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My friend is really toxic to me I kind of cry sometimes makes me sad he proves me wrong even though Im right hes mean never shares his feelings And just acts rude When he calls me he always ruins it he comes and makes some fun of me and When I yell at him by accident he acts rude and hangs up and never calls back every time we
have a fight He never says sorry and There is no Time where is being toxic

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I've had my best friend for almost all my life and there was always this weird power dynamic between us.
For years I just accepted that I was always the one to blame when we were fighting. After a literal breakdown because of the pressure she put me under, I looked back and realized how much gaslighting and toxicity is involved. No matter how hard I tried, I never did anything right

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This world is named one of my friends who don't like me why Vanna she's the one who diss landed the inappropriate one and not really kind Melvin never stops making fart noise and at recess I'm always got nothing to do and board and no one plays with me Davis play on the playground playing this game called Godzilla game it sucks it's not really that good
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This helped me a lot to rethink this friendship, this friend of mine literally yelled at me and gave me the silent treatment afterwards because I was having a depressive episode and not listening to what he's saying, he says I give in to social pressures and I have negative energy. Like bro OBVIOUS I'm going to be negative, I have depression damn
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I am the toxic best friend to my best friend, at least this is how he felt. Because he doesnt want to meet anymore as we had our weekly lunch for years. We didn't meet for like 2 months. He keep saying he is busy but he meet his jogging friends twice a week. I questioned him about our friendship and in the end, i became the negative vibes to him.
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yeah, 6 of the things in the list are true fir an old friendship. I think i need to walk awayits just gotten worse in the last 15 years, pretty sue she only remains a friend is bc she feels obligatedso Im just going to let it float away. no big ending, nothing. like its nothing.
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Thanks. for the video
It was actually getting toxic things with my friend and now i am actually start realising it, instead of ignoring things.
I think best way to get out of this is to maintain a distance /A distance where you can help them but they can't hurt you.

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I dont like my friend anymore. My friend told someone a secret and about me after I told him not to. I told him another secret and I think he started that rumor in school. Also, he keeps touching me and I dont like it! he also called me the b word because Im fatherless
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