{"id":295,"date":"2022-05-07T22:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regularlywe.com\/homepage\/?p=295"},"modified":"2022-05-07T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:43:58","slug":"3-red-flags-that-you-are-the-toxic-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regularlywe.com\/homepage\/3-red-flags-that-you-are-the-toxic-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Red Flags that YOU ARE the Toxic Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Flags tell you if you&#8217;re the toxic friend. We all want to think we are \u201cthe good friend.\u201d <\/span><b>We are \u201cthe good friend\u201d and others are toxic. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s the problem, though, <\/span><b>we can\u2019t all be right<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Usually, there are some red flags in friendships that point to you (or the friend) being the toxic one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case this is the first time you\u2019re hearing this term in relation to friendship: \u201ctoxic friendship\u201d refers to a friendship that eats away at those in it; One that is unhealthy or just downright damaging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most likely, we\u2019ve all had at least one toxic friendship before, and I\u2019d bet we\u2019ve all been the toxic friend one time before. (At least)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regularlywe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Height-of-Toxicity.png?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regularlywe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Height-of-Toxicity.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regularlywe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Height-of-Toxicity.png?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my case, I was the toxic friend off and on for about a decade of my life. <\/span><b>It hit me around 28 that the problem with my repeating friendship issues couldn\u2019t ONLY be the friends, sometimes it had to be me. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I like to think of the ages of 21-28 as my toxic years, and not just because of Britney Spears song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are red flags to look for in a friendship that may point to\u00a0 YOU being the toxic friend:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Flag #1: You NEED to be the one talking<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GUILTY!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m a former improviser\/theater kid who loves to hear herself speak. Now, sometimes, you\u2019re talking to someone and they trigger a story, so you tell it. That\u2019s normal. <\/span><b>That\u2019s conversation.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT &#8211; Sometimes someone says something and you literally watching their mouth for when it closes enough for you to speak, but you don\u2019t actually listen. That time <\/span><b>you may be toxic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re in a conversation so you can be heard, you may be toxic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversations and friendships are give and take<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How to be less toxic with this? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apologize for interrupting if you\u2019re someone who doesn\u2019t wait for your turn.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just sit there counting the ratio of how many people have spoken before it\u2019s okay for you to speak. <\/span><b>Talking more doesn\u2019t mean you have more to say.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Make it a goal next time you\u2019re talking to a friend to hold your tongue and listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Flag #2: You pick fights when people don\u2019t give you the exact feedback you want<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking as a former toxic bitch, In the past, I\u2019d pick arguments or try to force topics for a specific goal. I can remember exact times when I\u2019d <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regularlywe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ayo-ogunseinde-L6ymjrfk7lI-unsplash.jpeg?resize=1%2C1&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>put myself down in a way in order to get certain phrases said back to me. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, I\u2019d even compliment people just so they had to compliment me back.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often, (especially in FWB situations) I\u2019d pick a fight so that I\u2019d have to be the center of their attention for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yea, that\u2019s toxic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life is not a script of a tv show. <\/span><b>You are not Shonda Rhimes and your friends are not actors for you to push around and feed lines to.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toxic people try to control what others say to them and how they act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How to be less toxic with this?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Make it a goal to thank someone and say NOTHING ELSE when they provide you feedback. Bite that tongue, literally, if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Flag\u00a0 #3: You really held on to the idea of the word \u201cexact\u201d on #2 and are using it as a way to prove you were not the toxic friend<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regularlywe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ayo-ogunseinde-L6ymjrfk7lI-unsplash.jpeg?resize=1%2C1&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>I love words, and they mean a lot to me. In fact, in arguments with my current boyfriend (and a lot with old boyfriends), I would dissect every word they said or texted to me. If they did <\/span><b>All or Nothing thinking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (using always or never when sometimes or rarely were more accurate), I would jump in with an example of ONE TIME their complaint didn\u2019t apply to discredit their argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, all or nothing thinking is also pretty toxic, but trying to explain that you\u2019re not selfish cause you bought someone a drink once is pretty much like saying \u201cI\u2019m not sexist, I have a sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uh-uh you\u2019re getting hung up on the details.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How to be less toxic with this?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Toxic is a spectrum you may run up and down. You can be the toxic person in one friendship and totally placid in others. If you\u2019re jumping on one-off examples of why some of these don\u2019t apply to you, but you\u2019re finding a lot more examples of ways they do apply to you, you may be the toxic friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I bet you\u2019ve been toxic more often than you\u2019re comfortable admitting. Guess what? It&#8217;s not too late to work on yourself and bring down your toxicity spectrum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a little journal prompt for you. Think back to your last argument with a friend, and describe what happened. What were you feeling? What was the motivation in your words? When were you trying to wound? Now\u2026 do the same as the last time you were there for someone. How did it differ? How did you feel? What was your motivation?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are some red flags you\u2019ve found that point to you OR SOMEONE ELSE being a toxic friend?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Flags tell you if you&#8217;re the toxic friend. We all want to think we are \u201cthe good friend.\u201d We are \u201cthe good friend\u201d and others are toxic. Here\u2019s the problem, though, we can\u2019t all be right. Usually, there are some red flags in friendships that point to you (or the friend) being the toxic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0"},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25,24],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authentic-self","category-journal-prompts","category-mental-health","tag-journal-prompts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 Red Flags that YOU ARE the Toxic Friend - Regularly We<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Toxic Friendships exist, and we don&#039;t want to admit we are being toxic. 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