Toxic Friend - Is it codependency, emotional blackmail, or insecurity?

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Are you noticing your friendship being one sided? Are you wondering if a friend's behavior is normal? Are you questioning yourself? Is your friend not celebrating you when she is not a factor in your success, or included in a plan? Is the friend codependent on you? What about when you experience success and wins, your friend reacts in a way that makes you feel bad, or guilty, or even angry! YOU have a right to your emotions and feeling angry is a healthy response to someone making passive aggressive comments! Are you wondering what to say, or how to bring it up to your friend? Today, I answered YOUR question on a friendship and how to address a difficulty topic using this strategy to address the behavior! Plus a tip on the one word that will help not create a defensive reaction!

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[breezyxx]

Thank you SO MUCH for covering this topic!!!! This is all SO HELPFUL.

[Mrbradboy]

Gotcha! nice explanation anc clarification. Yes one of my friends I noticed seems one sided. Like when he throws events, I've been to most of them. Whenever I have some he never makes and effort to. He also too acts like a jerk in front of one of his friends to try to humiliate me. And I definitely will not sit back and let them get away with it. I already called them out last week.

Do you have an email? I appreciate you!

[JNYC]

What do you do wheen they actually say they are experiencing FOMO? I don't feel that way toward them but they feel that way toward me 🤷🏻‍♀️