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Five Reasons to Remove Toxic Family Members!

Is having a toxic family worth being around?

By Sarah DahlePublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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Family is always important in your life, even though the good times and bad times. Family isn’t perfect; however, is it worth keeping a family member who is toxic? If your relative is negatively impacting your life, its best to cut off that family member. Here are five types of toxic family member behavior.

1. They're judgmental.

Always remember your family is there when your need them. Good support and unconditional love is very important. If you’re relative is judging you constantly, that’s not a good way to keep that relative in your life. Basically, your relative is trying to better him/herself by bringing you down. What’s best is to stay away from your relative was judging you.

2. Taking Advantage of You (One Sided-Relationship)

For that point of view, each person will figure out that he/she calls only when you’re needed. Relationships always require some form of giving and taking. Therefore, family is built on that balance. If your relative only reaches out to you when they want something, but never did anything in return, that’s a sign that your relative is taking advantage of you. Not only when it comes to money but other important materials. This type of relationship with your relative will lead to a serious emotional behavior and a huge resentment. If you feel left out every time that relative put too much reliability for all the wrong reasons, chances are your relative is very toxic.

3. Rumors

Rumors are meant for high school. However, is it towards your relatives? If a relative is going to spread lies about you through a cell phone or social media, they will most likely enjoy all the drama and the gossip. That type of relative will focus on seeing you fail. Spreading rumors will most likely decrease the confidence and lack of motivation. Dishonoring the reputation of the person involved with rumors is very disrespectful and leads to humiliation. Don’t believe everything you hear. It’s only you to choose to walk away from that toxic family member and respect yourself.

4. Jealousy

People who truly care about you (which are your family and friends) are happy when you everything is going very well and not jealous. That type of support is always given, especially when it comes to family members. It’s always important to focus on yourself in order to have great success in life. The usual phrase you hear out of that family member “if I’m not happy nobody can be,” is being very unsupportive of you. That type of behavior is a sign of unhappiness, which leads to decreasing all of the hard work and discourages you by losing focus on the accomplishments. If you have a jealous family member, it better to remove that family member and choose a close family member who you trust the most.

5. The relationship is a lost cause.

Most of us want to work things out, especially with your family. If you feel that your family member is not making you happy, is it worth being in your life? Sometimes it’s really hard to figure out if you’re connected with that family member or not. Sometimes it makes it easier to just remove that family and move with your life. It’s only best just to live in peace. Always admit that your relative has a broken bond and never meant to be repaired.

Cutting Ties with Family Members!

Your family should be your backbone, and your friends should be kept for life. Always remember that your family and your true friends are for you. If your family member is being very disrespectful, that family member isn’t worth having around. They will always be related no matter what, but it doesn’t mean that they should be a part of your life. Your life better to just remove that toxic family member.

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Sarah Dahle

I'm 25 years old and I have autism. I love to share a lot of inspirational stories and help others that have struggle with life but manages to still keep standing. I love music, animals, exercising and help out others.

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