Friendship & Love

What is friendship and love?
"Love is when the needs and cares of the one I love become more important or at least as important as my own needs and cares".
Dealing with friendships is a complicated and emotional process, and it's easy to become entangled in relationships that may not be the best for our health. Almost everyone will deal with a negative friendship in their lifetime, which can be extremely difficult to navigate around and away from. Many friends disguise their unsupportive or negative comments as "jokes," and their insulting words as "sarcasm." Think about if you have a friend who makes you feel worse or stressed after contact, and understand that this is an unhealthy reaction to time together. If a relationship with a particular friend leaves you feeling like they may be talking behind your back, speaking unfavorably about you to others, or leaving you with a general sense of uneasiness... Address the problem right away. Figure out what kind of friend you're dealing with, in order to understand how to best handle the situation. In the end, dealing with negative people can only bring negative experiences and feelings to your life. Try to remember that as we get older, our friendships typically narrow to a small, special few (who we can truly cherish throughout life). So remember that when closing a door on a toxic friend. You just may opening the way for a mature, healthy new friendship.

“Toxic friends stress you out, use you, are unreliable, are overly demanding, and don’t give anything back,”

* Have you ever been in a toxic friendship? How did you handle it?