Your friends are probably right. If they're saying you're drawn to toxic relationships, explore why. Many people repeat bonding patterns learned from parents, especially when one was critical and the other was absent.
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Is it crazy that my friends say that I love toxic relationships? No. Your friends know you better than you probably know yourself, so it's probably true. You're gonna need to figure out why you like the toxicity of the relationship, Right? And oftentimes it is because we will lean into relationships that are familiar and our parents create our bonding patterns. So it probably means that you had a toxic relationship with one of your parents or both of them. Now, I will tell you, for most of my Black women clients, most of them have highly judgmental or critical mothers and physically or emotionally absent fathers. Both very toxic.