But as my fellow friendship expert Danielle Bayard-Jackson argues, the most toxic friends often use crafty and underhanded forms of aggression.
When you tell a friend you're hurt, responsiveness looks like them trying to understand why and adjusting their behavior.
In a toxic friendship, they may instead say things like "Can't you take a joke?"
As you get close to someone, you begin to include them in your sense of self, so what hurts them hurts you and what makes them happy makes you happy.
Even if they want to end a friendship, friends should show regard for you by telling you explicitly.
Persons:
Danielle Bayard, Jackson, doesn't