How to Get Rid of Toxic Relationships

When we're friends with somebody, we become like them as St. Francis highlights later on in the subsequent chapters and we end up kind of bleeding into them as they bleed into us. And so it becomes harder and harder to entangle ourselves or to entangle our lives from theirs. I think too here we have to remember that friendship is never like one directional, if that makes sense. It's not just a self serving reality to say like, okay, we need to take a step back from this friendship. We need to be able to recognize the difference between true and false friendship in our, in our lives.