6 Types Of Friends You Might Want To Avoid

Making friends is part of our daily lives and it is a trait attributed to humans and animals alike. While you might surround yourself with certain kinds of buddies, here are the facts: Friendship is normally establish based on interests.

If the friends you keep falls into this category, you might want to reconsider. Or maybe you fit into such behaviours.

Five Types of Friends to Avoid

The Taker

These kinds of friends have no bound or shame in taking because it has become a deep-rooted habit. Behavioural experts believe that your capacity to give may have been cultivated at a young age and it becomes part of your DNA. So, If you are someone who is always generous and giving, takers will know no bounds when collecting from you and they probably don’t even recognise that they are taking as it’s their character and reciprocity is not part of their thought agenda.

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The Manipulator

Such friends are always scheming and looking to use you at every opportunity to sooth their purpose. And did I mention they’re calculative as well? a manipulator always aims at your emotions and makes you feel lesser than you are. One of the attributes of a manipulative friend is that no matter your problems, theirs is worse, instead of sympathising with you, they undermine the legitimacy of your complaints by reminding you that their problems are more serious.

The Drama Queen

I bet you already got a hint but let make it more elaborate. This kind of friend dabble in conflicts, always seem unhappy about something and someone has to take the blame. Such friends choose drama as an attitude and have a way of turning everything into a big deal.

The Jealous and competitive Friends 

Keeping friends with a tendency to jealousy is a risky venture especially if you’re goody goody type. Friendships are supposed to be supportive and encouraging, not polarising and antagonistic and if your friend always acts the opposite, then you’re going to feel more exhaustion than comfort around them. Jealousy is usually driven by inferiority complex and greed and if you stick such a person for long, then a betray is in order.

The Disappearing Actor

This is a usual occurrence but who says it has to be that way among true friends. Such person only shows up when they need something, but the minute you serve your purpose, you’ll drop to zero priority. You’re probably their closest friend when they are single and needs you to be the wing person in order to fill their social calendar. But as soon as they enter a relationship or got married, well…you do the math.

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The Flake

You might feel sympathetic towards friends like this but the truth is, people have a lot of issues that causes them not to be available. So why waste time chasing those who don’t follow through? True friends are those who genuinely likes you, enjoys spending times with you and only have good thoughts about you. That friend who always gives you excuses about not having enough time to visit or hang out may not be your best definition of a true friend.

Most often you are attracted to people whose personality seem compatible to yours and as you move through different stages of life, your interests in friends may change. Rather than the superficial, what are the profound qualities you seek in a friend? Loyalty, consistency, reliability, honesty, consideration, and generosity is a good start – as long as you’re character matches the description.