Hello!
I’d like to just get a thread going from people wiser-than-I who have great pieces of wisdom on how to filter out fake friends, manipulative people and/or narcissistic personalities.
I struggle with this a lot and recently had to cut someone off because of constantly being lied to and manipulated. It’s painful and I want to better myself to avoid this issue ever again.
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Analyze and look for patterns of behavior in your past relationships, and compare it to past healthy relationships or interactions. For example, I realized that most of my past negative experiences have been with people who maintain a strong presence on social media and that their photos are to impress others. In comparison, I and my past positive relationships don’t use social media that much, and when we do it’s usually just to show off something cool or funny to each other.
People subconsciously look for not only personalities that are familiar, but also personalities that trigger their trauma in order to prove to themselves that they can stand up to such people. It’s not healthy and it eliminates the possibility of having good relationships.