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21 Quotes That'll Help You Better Understand The Toxic People You Should Walk Away From

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21 Quotes That'll Help You Better Understand The Toxic People You Should Walk Away From

Toxic people are very destructive; they are emotional vampires.

Manipulators use diversion tactics such as, not giving a straight answer or steering the conversation to another topic.

— Sarah Nielsen, Manipulation: How to Recognize and Outwit Emotional Manipulation and Mind Control in Your Relationships - 3rd Edition

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By understanding us, you remove one of our most powerful weapons ; confusion.

— H G Tudor, Your Fault : Blame and the Narcissist

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After they have made you insecure enough to cling to them and raise every single insecurity you have, they will comfort you and reassure you that they are with you. And thus your dependency is increased, along with the power they have over you.

— Pamela Kole, Mind Games: Emotionally Manipulative Tactics Partners Use to Control Relationships and Force the Upper Hand - Recognize and Beat Them

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But these people cross the line when they abuse their capacity for persuasion for their selfish benefit, especially when it's at the expense of the relationship.

— Devin Walters, Toxic Relationships: How to Identify an Unhealthy Relationship and Take Action to Repair It or Free Yourself - ( How to Get Out of a Toxic Relationship )

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In toxic relationships, not only does your partner bring you down a lot. You must understand that without any kind of moral support there is no relationship at all.

— Devin Walters, Toxic Relationships: How to Identify an Unhealthy Relationship and Take Action to Repair It or Free Yourself - ( How to Get Out of a Toxic Relationship )

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They are deadly people and do not deserve access into your life, unless they demonstrate the willingness and the ability to change.

— Lilly Singh, Toxic Relationships: How to DE-TOX From Negative People and Abusive Relationships

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Never do business or socialize with someone whom you catch in a lie under any circumstances. After all, if he’s comfortable lying, he’s probably also comfortable doing a lot worse things too.

— Glass Lillian, Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable

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Toxic people are very destructive; they are emotional vampires. Your interactions with them will always leave you drained and exhausted. They are mood changers; they suck a life out of you. Toxic People are a vehicle of heaviness and depression.

— Lilly Singh, Toxic Relationships: How to DE-TOX From Negative People and Abusive Relationships

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The thing about abusers is that along with power, they only recognize a relationship that is 100% on their own terms.

— Pamela Kole, Mind Games: Emotionally Manipulative Tactics Partners Use to Control Relationships and Force the Upper Hand - Recognize and Beat Them

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Your love is as stable as you are.

— Criss Jami, Killosophy

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He said he loved me, but every step of the way he’d hurt and sabotage me. I realized later that he put me down so much because he was probably terrified that I’d realize he was nothing and leave him. Which is exactly what I did.

— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

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I was looking for love and he seemed like love.

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

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Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.

— John Mark Green, Tumblr

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He’s a close-minded intellectual bully. Only his ideas and opinions matter, and no one can change his opinions or open his mind to new ideas or points of view. He’s quick-tongued and seems to have an answer for everything if you try to change his mind. He usually gossips and criticizes others regularly. He thrives on making himself right and you wrong.

— Glass Lillian, Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable

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you need to come to a place where you value yourself more than your partner or the relationship.

— Matt Collins, Overcome Dysfunctional Relationships: How to move past: narcissistic relationships, toxic relationships, and dysfunctional families

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What is worse than having one narcissist in your life? The answer is being co-dependent on that narcissist.

— H G Tudor, Chained : The Narcissist's Co-Dependent

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Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

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Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

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The first (and one of the worst) ways a relationship can be dysfunctional is in the case of psychological abuse. Psychological abuse is any behavior by one person which leads to psychological and emotional damage in the other. The damage which can happen from this type of abuse is long lasting, subtle, and can take the form of stress, anxiety, depression, self-hate, apathy and many more in the victim.

— Matt Collins, Overcome Dysfunctional Relationships: How to move past: narcissistic relationships, toxic relationships, and dysfunctional families

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Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

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Does he often give you the silent treatment when he’s upset? 2. Is getting him to open up like pulling teeth? 3. Is he distant, cold, aloof, or lacking emotion so that it’s difficult to know his feelings?

— Glass Lillian, Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable

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