How To Recognize A Good (Roleplay) Friend From A Toxic One
Good Friends:
Support you
Own up to their fuck-ups and apologize with sincerity when they do something that hurts you
Encourage you
Comfort you when you’re hurting
Share laughs and cheer you up when you’re feeling low
Get excited about shared ideas
Discuss plots and help get you pumped about your characters/storylines
Tell you when they have a problem so you can try to work it out together
Stand up for you/encourage you to stand up for yourself
Listen to your problems and try to help when possible
Is loyal, kind and respectful
Sticks around even when things get tough
Is trustworthy and willing to tell you the truth, even when it’s hard for you to hear/hard for them to say
Reach out
Love you even when you aren’t able to love yourself
Toxic ‘Friends’:
Leave you unsettled
Apologize without sincerity
Make you feel unsafe about standing up for yourself or walking away
Constantly blow off your concerns as nothing/not important
Lash out at you when you tell them they’ve hurt you
Stay silent when you’re being bullied/harassed
Lie to you
Circumvent your rules/try to find loopholes
Push at your boundaries to try to get their way
Use your insecurities/fears against you
Stay friends with people who talk badly about you, send you hate, etc.
Play hot/cold where they go from angry and accusatory towards you, to ignoring you outright in an attempt to manipulate you
Gaslight you or try to spin the truth around to make you the one at fault
Make promises and break them constantly
Break your trust and apologize, only to do it again