Can you identify toxic friendships?
To be able to live better you need to clean up toxic friendships, how to identify them? Let’s look at the two sets in the figure, the non-friends people are present in the pink set while for the friends you can identify them in the yellow set. The problem is in the intersection area.
Problems arise from the Intersection
The friendships that hurt the most are the ones you consider friends but, deep down, are very toxic false friendships.
A friend whom you thought was sincere is more fearful than a wild beast; a wild beast may hurt your body, but a false friend hurts your soul. Buddha
There is a grey area even from the fraternal friend, also called best friend, in Neapolitan it is defined with ‘o brother cousin which intersects the toxic area highlights the friendships of the infamous the worst breed of pseudo friendships.
An ancient technique of fidelity testing
It is not my job to indicate how to behave, what kind of relationships to establish… if you have the nauseating sensation from excessive bows or from complimentary adjectives for the purpose of subjugation by the evil mind, then you are on the right road.
Since ancient times, the degree of fidelity was tested through the confidence of a pilot news that should not have come out from the context for which it was made explicit. The return of the news from other sources was the proof that the person whom was the object of the fidelity test had to be pilloried!