Toxic friendships don’t usually begin with betrayal or cruelty. According to best-selling author and therapist Marisa Peer, they begin the moment one person needs the relationship to stay unequal — and doesn’t care what that does to the other person. All friendships go through difficult periods. Life changes, people drift, misunderstandings happen and the balance […]
From always putting others first to never quite feeling included, the role you play in your friendships may have been shaped decades before you even met your closest friends. We tend to think of friendships as something we choose freely as adults. We meet people, we connect, and we decide who feels right for us. […]
Feeling guilty after seeing a friend? Constantly walking on eggshells or questioning yourself? Experts explain the overlooked signs of manipulation in friendships and how to tell when a relationship is no longer healthy. We often think of manipulation as something that happens in romantic relationships, but it can be just as damaging between friends. The […]