We all have that “friend.”
You know, the kind that leaves you feeling drained and deflated every time you talk.
The one who never seems happy for your success, or who always needs to one-up your struggles with their own.
The perpetual victim, the constant complainer, the fair-weather flyer.
This so-called “friend” who seems to suck the life right out of you.
I’m here to tell you something important: you don’t have to put up with it anymore.
I learned this lesson the hard way.
I had a friend — let’s call her Debbie (Downer)— who was never satisfied with anything in her own life.
Somehow that meant I couldn’t be satisfied with mine either.
She’d belittle my accomplishments, complain about my optimistic attitude, and otherwise try to drag me down to her level of discontent.
After years of letting her negativity seep into me, I finally realized our “friendship” had become toxic.