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Signs of Toxic People: How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Their Influence
22.04.2024 19:07
Communicating with toxic people is not beneficial. It is difficult to immediately determine that you have come across such an individual.
But the main task is to calculate and then protect your personal boundaries and yourself from encroachment.
Doing this is not as difficult as it seems, you just need to listen to the advice of experts.
How to Recognize Toxic People
There are common characteristics among this category of people.
Firstly, they simply love to spread gossip and discuss other people’s troubles and misfortunes, failures and failures, even if the topic clearly irritates those around them.
Secondly, they simply love to pretend to be victims. From somewhere there arises a passionate desire to help the unfortunate, but do not rush, observe a little. Soon you will notice that your interlocutor avoids personal responsibility and is quite categorical in judgments.
Thirdly, they are inveterate critics. Moreover, they can criticize any action or inaction.
But their criticism does not help, but accuses and deprives of motivation.
Fourth, these are manipulative people who often take up precious time and energy. They may be charming, but once you play your role in their life, you will become useless.
These are also people who have difficulty controlling their emotions, they often act as judges or pretend to be loyal friends, but they simply shift their problems onto you.
How to protect yourself
1. First, emotional distance. Stop reacting to the noise they make in your life altogether.
2. Act consciously, look for weaknesses in yourself and your partner.
3. Don't count on being able to defeat him, it is enough that you are able to fight back in time.
4. Keep the situation under control, otherwise you will become a pawn in someone else’s game.
5. Don't let your boundaries be violated and decide for yourself when to meet and what to talk about with such a person.
Earlier we talked about the signs that indicate that people will live together their whole lives .
