4 Kinds of Highly Toxic People You May Want to Cut from Your Life

Leeches that suck dry your happiness, time, energy, and self-esteem

Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous
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5 min readSep 3, 2021

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One of the most crucial factors for your happiness and success in life is the people surrounding you.

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Jim Rohn

While the right kind can propel you to the skies, the wrong ones can drag you down to the depths of Tartarus.

Having suffered my fair share of the latter kind, I’ve noticed that they all fall into 4 broad types. I want to share the same with you. Along with the types, I will also go over the ways to easily recognize and get rid of them.

The Ingrates

Often manipulative and cunning, these crocodile-tear shedders coax the best of favors from you. But when you need help, they won’t leave a trace in a 10-km radius.

Leeches, in the truest sense, the ingrates only take and never give, violating the central tenet of any human relation — the concept of equivalent exchange.

They don’t express the slightest of gratitude. And even make it seem like helping them is one of your cardinal duties — the worse ones will…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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