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KAREN MARCH
M.Soc.Sc.(Counselling),
MACA(Professional)

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A friendship that does not bring out the best in you, is a friendship with problems.

Friendships are meant to enrich our lives, so if a particular friendship leaves you feeling insecure, negative, and less of a person, then it's time to consider whether you should continue the association.

Some of the following forms of treatment may help indentify a problem friendship.

Do they:

frequently make fun of you in front of others?

diminish your achievements and goals?

usurp your right to make decisions?

use manipulative comments or ultimatums?

seem disinterested in your opinions and thoughts?

say tactless and critical things to you, or about you to others?

blame you when things don't go their way?

vent their anger and frustration on you?

talk down to you?

Recurrent bad treatment by a friend can erode self-worth until the line between what is right and wrong treatment can become blurred.
If you often worry how your friend will react, if you avoid doing or saying things that you think will cause them to become angry, or if you are always doing what they want in order to avoid conflict, then you are more than likely not being treated as an equal.
Those who treat others badly, do so out of a deficit within themselves.
As an anonymous writer once said, "The way people treat you is a statement about who they are as a human being. It is not a statement about you."

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