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Is my friend toxic? Please help

And I also feel like secretly she is competing with me and it makes me uncomfortable. For example, she will constantly find a way to start talking about how men hit on her her, and go on through a long winded story for example about how she was invited to a friends wedding and her husband to be was so good looking and he kept hitting on her constantly and she wouldn’t stop giggling smugly and looking at me like isn’t it amazing, the story, as though she wanted to see my reaction. She recently also broke up with her boyfriend because she said he was abusive and I tried my best to support her but for example we went on holiday together and the final night she had a huge tantrum at the restaurant and was super rude to me because he sent her some message. Then she made a huge scene and ran back to the hotel crying and sobbing the whole night about this text where he said he didn’t want to live without her. I was due to fly that morning alone and ended up getting 0 sleep because i had to stay awake all night comforting her and listening to her ranting about how much better looking she is than him and how she can get any man she wants and did I know when she went to Spain all these Spanish men kept asking her out. The whole thing was very emotionally draining for me but of course i hugged her and tired to comfort her but as a result of my tiredness the next day i thought mistakenly i lost my passport when i hadn’t and it caused me issues getting home.

Any also, she was also brag and say stuff like (when she was still with her bf) that she went on a trip with a friend and this guy kept hanging out with them and was saying ‘oh you know when you’re such a beautiful woman like you are you should not be tied down at such a young age’ or something along those line. She deadpan agreed with his statement in such a smug way again - don’t get me wrong she has a fabulous figure but facially i have seen so so many more attractive and beautiful women who do not brag like she does. I also get hit on constantly by guys but i do not brag about it because i feel uncomfortable doing so and i don’t see the point or need in it. She also will say nasty personal things about anyone she doeSnt like who is over weight or fit her beauty idea like oh that fat cow - why she get a husband/boyfriend when she looks like that (she’s italian hence the grammar) and a relationship that is like that - it doesn’t make sense (she’s spoken like that about a few people) and she’s always comparing her relationship with other women and seems in competition. She accuses them also of being narcissistic for talking about their relationship to her and says why do they go on or post photos of their relationship on social media etc and that they are narcissistic. She also always brags a lot about herself and about her character and rambles on that she has eyes behind her back because she is from Naples and tries to subtly make me feeel like I am naive (which i am not and i grew up in a very rough, poor and abusive background compred to her - she grew up wealthy and with both parents spoiling her and stable).

She is also very misogynistic about other women and always goes on about how British women are so slutty and that it’s disgusting how they dress on holiday in europe and that they look so dumb with their fake lips and they all look the same etc and she really went in super hard on them. Yet she had posted photo after photo on her instagram on nothing but her bikini on holiday and very small clothing. She also goes on that she always has problems with other women and that men are superior to women and that their friendships are genuine etc and that they are not as dramatic. She also mocks English people when they walk past to me and says they are so fat and unelegant. I am not ethnically British myself so it doesn’t really upset me but i think it’s unfair to be so judgemental of other women for dressing how she pretty much also dresses and she also recently went on a partying/drinking holiday to Ibiza and she smokes weed. She boasts also about how she knows how to put other women in their place and that she kind of implied i don’t know how to stick up for myself regarding other women and show them ‘who is boss’ or something like that. She kept rambling on to me about her female coworkers and showed me the group texts where she had basically started the whole thing by complaining that her coworker had forgotten to get a heater ready or something like that (she worked as a hotel receptionist) and she was fuming that the coworker had responsded in a somewhat sarcastic
tone and kept saying to me what a b tch she is. She then rambled and boasted that she has such a temper and she used to fight and shout at her female teachers in school for the sake of it and her hand would shake in anger because of how mad she was if a teacher said anything to annoy her (not something i’d really be proud of especially as they wheee just teachers doing their job) and she proudly exclaimed and rambled quickly that she can be SUCH a b itch when she wants to like i was going to clap for her and say, well done!!

Also she views all of my instagram stories but barely likes anything and last halloween she had a go at me because i was sober when we went out and she said i was giving bad vibes because i was too shy to dance as i wasn’t drunk and that my energy was very bad etc. I also like her stories constantly and her posts but she only likes my posts (like 1/2) of them on instagram and nearly none of them on facebook. She rambled also about how wise and intelligent she is beyond her years. I just find her volatile and most times when we hang out i feel worse than before we hung out. It just feels draining and then all the talk about her ex and al the b thing about other women and feeling sorry for herself. I don’t know it’s just a bit too much for me and my health hasn’t been great lately so i don’t want extra stress.

Also when we went on holiday together and when we went out for halloween, everywhere we went she would run ahead like 6m ahead of me even when i was carrying al my suitcases in the blistering 39 degree heat and about to faint. I was very orion deficient anemic (like nearly negligible iron and my hg was like 89 and tons of my other bloods low too - as well as my liver enzymes randomly being super high) she didn’t know that at the time but i feel whenever we hang out usually somehow it has a bad effect on my health some way. Like also on our holiday i got cellulitis in my foot from a mosquito bite and she kept making me run over jagged rocks in italy with absolutely no patience for me even though my foot was hurting so bad.


Am I being unreasonable?? Should i be more understanding?? She has done some really nice things like when we wen ton holiday i was broke until the last few days when i got paid and she paid for all of my food along with hers (it was super cheap though) and made sure i came everywhere with her and shared with me. I paid it all back (plus like 3x more but shr told me to only pay the amount i owed which was nice of her) but i just don’t know if i can handle all the other dramatics with her. Also sometimes she posts some really indirect weird toxic stuff on social media (she’s not done it in a while now but last last year and early this year it was like every day on her story - toxic stuff like songs about coming to another woman’s city to live there and beat her up and weird stuff like that and just constantly feeling pity for herself etc that she never does to others how they do to her etc etc) and i think maybe it’s best i keep her at a distance. What do you guys think??

Reply 1

Original post by happy888808
And I also feel like secretly she is competing with me and it makes me uncomfortable. For example, she will constantly find a way to start talking about how men hit on her her, and go on through a long winded story for example about how she was invited to a friends wedding and her husband to be was so good looking and he kept hitting on her constantly and she wouldn’t stop giggling smugly and looking at me like isn’t it amazing, the story, as though she wanted to see my reaction. She recently also broke up with her boyfriend because she said he was abusive and I tried my best to support her but for example we went on holiday together and the final night she had a huge tantrum at the restaurant and was super rude to me because he sent her some message. Then she made a huge scene and ran back to the hotel crying and sobbing the whole night about this text where he said he didn’t want to live without her. I was due to fly that morning alone and ended up getting 0 sleep because i had to stay awake all night comforting her and listening to her ranting about how much better looking she is than him and how she can get any man she wants and did I know when she went to Spain all these Spanish men kept asking her out. The whole thing was very emotionally draining for me but of course i hugged her and tired to comfort her but as a result of my tiredness the next day i thought mistakenly i lost my passport when i hadn’t and it caused me issues getting home.
Any also, she was also brag and say stuff like (when she was still with her bf) that she went on a trip with a friend and this guy kept hanging out with them and was saying ‘oh you know when you’re such a beautiful woman like you are you should not be tied down at such a young age’ or something along those line. She deadpan agreed with his statement in such a smug way again - don’t get me wrong she has a fabulous figure but facially i have seen so so many more attractive and beautiful women who do not brag like she does. I also get hit on constantly by guys but i do not brag about it because i feel uncomfortable doing so and i don’t see the point or need in it. She also will say nasty personal things about anyone she doeSnt like who is over weight or fit her beauty idea like oh that fat cow - why she get a husband/boyfriend when she looks like that (she’s italian hence the grammar) and a relationship that is like that - it doesn’t make sense (she’s spoken like that about a few people) and she’s always comparing her relationship with other women and seems in competition. She accuses them also of being narcissistic for talking about their relationship to her and says why do they go on or post photos of their relationship on social media etc and that they are narcissistic. She also always brags a lot about herself and about her character and rambles on that she has eyes behind her back because she is from Naples and tries to subtly make me feeel like I am naive (which i am not and i grew up in a very rough, poor and abusive background compred to her - she grew up wealthy and with both parents spoiling her and stable).
She is also very misogynistic about other women and always goes on about how British women are so slutty and that it’s disgusting how they dress on holiday in europe and that they look so dumb with their fake lips and they all look the same etc and she really went in super hard on them. Yet she had posted photo after photo on her instagram on nothing but her bikini on holiday and very small clothing. She also goes on that she always has problems with other women and that men are superior to women and that their friendships are genuine etc and that they are not as dramatic. She also mocks English people when they walk past to me and says they are so fat and unelegant. I am not ethnically British myself so it doesn’t really upset me but i think it’s unfair to be so judgemental of other women for dressing how she pretty much also dresses and she also recently went on a partying/drinking holiday to Ibiza and she smokes weed. She boasts also about how she knows how to put other women in their place and that she kind of implied i don’t know how to stick up for myself regarding other women and show them ‘who is boss’ or something like that. She kept rambling on to me about her female coworkers and showed me the group texts where she had basically started the whole thing by complaining that her coworker had forgotten to get a heater ready or something like that (she worked as a hotel receptionist) and she was fuming that the coworker had responsded in a somewhat sarcastic
tone and kept saying to me what a b tch she is. She then rambled and boasted that she has such a temper and she used to fight and shout at her female teachers in school for the sake of it and her hand would shake in anger because of how mad she was if a teacher said anything to annoy her (not something i’d really be proud of especially as they wheee just teachers doing their job) and she proudly exclaimed and rambled quickly that she can be SUCH a b itch when she wants to like i was going to clap for her and say, well done!!
Also she views all of my instagram stories but barely likes anything and last halloween she had a go at me because i was sober when we went out and she said i was giving bad vibes because i was too shy to dance as i wasn’t drunk and that my energy was very bad etc. I also like her stories constantly and her posts but she only likes my posts (like 1/2) of them on instagram and nearly none of them on facebook. She rambled also about how wise and intelligent she is beyond her years. I just find her volatile and most times when we hang out i feel worse than before we hung out. It just feels draining and then all the talk about her ex and al the b thing about other women and feeling sorry for herself. I don’t know it’s just a bit too much for me and my health hasn’t been great lately so i don’t want extra stress.
Also when we went on holiday together and when we went out for halloween, everywhere we went she would run ahead like 6m ahead of me even when i was carrying al my suitcases in the blistering 39 degree heat and about to faint. I was very orion deficient anemic (like nearly negligible iron and my hg was like 89 and tons of my other bloods low too - as well as my liver enzymes randomly being super high) she didn’t know that at the time but i feel whenever we hang out usually somehow it has a bad effect on my health some way. Like also on our holiday i got cellulitis in my foot from a mosquito bite and she kept making me run over jagged rocks in italy with absolutely no patience for me even though my foot was hurting so bad.
Am I being unreasonable?? Should i be more understanding?? She has done some really nice things like when we wen ton holiday i was broke until the last few days when i got paid and she paid for all of my food along with hers (it was super cheap though) and made sure i came everywhere with her and shared with me. I paid it all back (plus like 3x more but shr told me to only pay the amount i owed which was nice of her) but i just don’t know if i can handle all the other dramatics with her. Also sometimes she posts some really indirect weird toxic stuff on social media (she’s not done it in a while now but last last year and early this year it was like every day on her story - toxic stuff like songs about coming to another woman’s city to live there and beat her up and weird stuff like that and just constantly feeling pity for herself etc that she never does to others how they do to her etc etc) and i think maybe it’s best i keep her at a distance. What do you guys think??


Also here is a image of both of us just for reference. I’m not saying i’m any better looking than her at all (i’m the blonde) i just find it a bit draining to hear her go on so much about her appearances and how appealing she is to men apparently. Not because i’m jealous but because it feels a bit like she’s doing it for a reaction

Reply 2

Original post by happy888808
And I also feel like secretly she is competing with me and it makes me uncomfortable. For example, she will constantly find a way to start talking about how men hit on her her, and go on through a long winded story for example about how she was invited to a friends wedding and her husband to be was so good looking and he kept hitting on her constantly and she wouldn’t stop giggling smugly and looking at me like isn’t it amazing, the story, as though she wanted to see my reaction. She recently also broke up with her boyfriend because she said he was abusive and I tried my best to support her but for example we went on holiday together and the final night she had a huge tantrum at the restaurant and was super rude to me because he sent her some message. Then she made a huge scene and ran back to the hotel crying and sobbing the whole night about this text where he said he didn’t want to live without her. I was due to fly that morning alone and ended up getting 0 sleep because i had to stay awake all night comforting her and listening to her ranting about how much better looking she is than him and how she can get any man she wants and did I know when she went to Spain all these Spanish men kept asking her out. The whole thing was very emotionally draining for me but of course i hugged her and tired to comfort her but as a result of my tiredness the next day i thought mistakenly i lost my passport when i hadn’t and it caused me issues getting home.
Any also, she was also brag and say stuff like (when she was still with her bf) that she went on a trip with a friend and this guy kept hanging out with them and was saying ‘oh you know when you’re such a beautiful woman like you are you should not be tied down at such a young age’ or something along those line. She deadpan agreed with his statement in such a smug way again - don’t get me wrong she has a fabulous figure but facially i have seen so so many more attractive and beautiful women who do not brag like she does. I also get hit on constantly by guys but i do not brag about it because i feel uncomfortable doing so and i don’t see the point or need in it. She also will say nasty personal things about anyone she doeSnt like who is over weight or fit her beauty idea like oh that fat cow - why she get a husband/boyfriend when she looks like that (she’s italian hence the grammar) and a relationship that is like that - it doesn’t make sense (she’s spoken like that about a few people) and she’s always comparing her relationship with other women and seems in competition. She accuses them also of being narcissistic for talking about their relationship to her and says why do they go on or post photos of their relationship on social media etc and that they are narcissistic. She also always brags a lot about herself and about her character and rambles on that she has eyes behind her back because she is from Naples and tries to subtly make me feeel like I am naive (which i am not and i grew up in a very rough, poor and abusive background compred to her - she grew up wealthy and with both parents spoiling her and stable).
She is also very misogynistic about other women and always goes on about how British women are so slutty and that it’s disgusting how they dress on holiday in europe and that they look so dumb with their fake lips and they all look the same etc and she really went in super hard on them. Yet she had posted photo after photo on her instagram on nothing but her bikini on holiday and very small clothing. She also goes on that she always has problems with other women and that men are superior to women and that their friendships are genuine etc and that they are not as dramatic. She also mocks English people when they walk past to me and says they are so fat and unelegant. I am not ethnically British myself so it doesn’t really upset me but i think it’s unfair to be so judgemental of other women for dressing how she pretty much also dresses and she also recently went on a partying/drinking holiday to Ibiza and she smokes weed. She boasts also about how she knows how to put other women in their place and that she kind of implied i don’t know how to stick up for myself regarding other women and show them ‘who is boss’ or something like that. She kept rambling on to me about her female coworkers and showed me the group texts where she had basically started the whole thing by complaining that her coworker had forgotten to get a heater ready or something like that (she worked as a hotel receptionist) and she was fuming that the coworker had responsded in a somewhat sarcastic
tone and kept saying to me what a b tch she is. She then rambled and boasted that she has such a temper and she used to fight and shout at her female teachers in school for the sake of it and her hand would shake in anger because of how mad she was if a teacher said anything to annoy her (not something i’d really be proud of especially as they wheee just teachers doing their job) and she proudly exclaimed and rambled quickly that she can be SUCH a b itch when she wants to like i was going to clap for her and say, well done!!
Also she views all of my instagram stories but barely likes anything and last halloween she had a go at me because i was sober when we went out and she said i was giving bad vibes because i was too shy to dance as i wasn’t drunk and that my energy was very bad etc. I also like her stories constantly and her posts but she only likes my posts (like 1/2) of them on instagram and nearly none of them on facebook. She rambled also about how wise and intelligent she is beyond her years. I just find her volatile and most times when we hang out i feel worse than before we hung out. It just feels draining and then all the talk about her ex and al the b thing about other women and feeling sorry for herself. I don’t know it’s just a bit too much for me and my health hasn’t been great lately so i don’t want extra stress.
Also when we went on holiday together and when we went out for halloween, everywhere we went she would run ahead like 6m ahead of me even when i was carrying al my suitcases in the blistering 39 degree heat and about to faint. I was very orion deficient anemic (like nearly negligible iron and my hg was like 89 and tons of my other bloods low too - as well as my liver enzymes randomly being super high) she didn’t know that at the time but i feel whenever we hang out usually somehow it has a bad effect on my health some way. Like also on our holiday i got cellulitis in my foot from a mosquito bite and she kept making me run over jagged rocks in italy with absolutely no patience for me even though my foot was hurting so bad.
Am I being unreasonable?? Should i be more understanding?? She has done some really nice things like when we wen ton holiday i was broke until the last few days when i got paid and she paid for all of my food along with hers (it was super cheap though) and made sure i came everywhere with her and shared with me. I paid it all back (plus like 3x more but shr told me to only pay the amount i owed which was nice of her) but i just don’t know if i can handle all the other dramatics with her. Also sometimes she posts some really indirect weird toxic stuff on social media (she’s not done it in a while now but last last year and early this year it was like every day on her story - toxic stuff like songs about coming to another woman’s city to live there and beat her up and weird stuff like that and just constantly feeling pity for herself etc that she never does to others how they do to her etc etc) and i think maybe it’s best i keep her at a distance. What do you guys think??

Is your friend toxic? I think you know the answer to that- it seems quite clear.
Now you need to decide if you can put up with her and continue the friendship.
You could talk to her (but from what it seems like she would lash out and get defensive- personality trait of a narcisist)
Or you could distance yourself, or you could cut her out
Its your choice but think about your personal situation- would you have other friends to rely on and so on

Reply 3

From your description, she's hilarious. Oh the irony!
She's also bad tempered.
And at there core of her, there's a good heart.

She's worth keeping as a friend.
However it's important that you maintain better frame control than you have been doing. EG when she gets a text from her ex, it's a huge dramatic deal in her frame. In your frame it's nothing of any importance at all. Maintain your frame and don't fall into hers. Even if it at times you have to humour her as a pragmatic solution for dealing with her, your inner frame should be yours and not hers.

Getting good at frame control is a great skill to have in life. EG when dealing with difficult clients or bosses.

Your blood iron levels are a concern. "The healthiest iron sources are whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, dried fruits, and green, leafy vegetables, which can be paired at the same meal with vitamin C-rich foods such as citrus, bell peppers, broccoli, and tropical fruits to boost iron absorption." https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/iron/

And good for you for not drinking at Halloween. Aim to make it a habit where you go out, don't drink and have a great time. That's maintaining your frame. Don't fall into the frame that others have that nights out equals medicating yourself with alcohol.

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