Toxic people

Toxic people are those people who tend to make it all about them and who speak negative all the time. They want to be the victim in whatever circumstance that they are in and just put it all on you because they want someone to feel sorry about them. I used to have a friend who was toxic and it took me a long time to finally be like I can't be friends with this person. We met when we were in Middle school and we friends til we graduated high school together. 

Every time this person would call me she never let me have a word in edgewise because all they would talk about was how bad their life was and blah blah blah. Now don't get me wrong I like being that friend that will listen to you and support you through anything you are going through, but when you start to act like it's someone else's fault for why you can't move forward with your life and are negative all the time I can't be friends with someone like that.

It's really hard for me to let friends go, but after I realized how bad that person was for my life I stopped talking to them. If you have someone in your life who you know is toxic then you need to let them go and make friends with people who will actually be your friend. Toxic people will wear you down after awhile and it sucks when it slowly starts to escalate. 

I know it will be hard for those of us who don't want to let go of friends, but you can't allow all that negativity to be present because it will slowly start to affect you and that isn't a good thing. If you really don't want to lose that friend then I guess you can have a talking to with that person or people and let them know that what they are doing isn't right or good for you. Tell them how you feel and if they won't change what they are doing then you won't be friends with them anymore. That will be a hard talk and you might end up losing them regardless, but sometimes it's for the best.