10 Signs You Have Shitty Friends

The company you keep is important. Having shitty friends can cause you a lot more unhappiness in life than you want. Here’s how to spot the bad ones.

Having bad friends is really the worst thing to go through. You put your trust in someone else and they just end up being a crappy person who has offered you nothing but hardships. Sometimes realizing you have shitty friends can be worse than losing a lover.

Your friends also shape who you are. If you’re surrounded with bad people, your life will reflect that. You’ll be more insecure and have a lot more negativity present than you probably want. Knowing which friends are the bad ones can help you learn who to cut out.

# You’re always the first to initiate a hang out

When you’re the only person reaching out and, well, caring, it’s a problem. A friend who never wants to spend time with you probably isn’t a good friend. They only reach out when they need you. That’s a shitty friend.

# Your texts go unanswered

Basically, whenever you send out texts, you hardly get replies. Then maybe a week later you’ll get a text apologizing, only to realize it’s because they need something from you. These types of people are shitty friends. They don’t truly care about you or they’d respond no matter what.

# They get mad at you for stuff they do all the time

AKA, they have so many double standards. They can ignore your texts but if more than a couple hours goes by without you responding, they get pissed. This isn’t a true friendship. This is them practically using you for something. Ditch them.

# They don’t support your goals

Anyone who doesn’t fully support your goals doesn’t belong in your life. As long as what you want to do is moral and doesn’t harm anyone else or yourself, they should be on your side. They shouldn’t be sitting there making passive aggressive comments about it. Nor should they doubt you. If they are, then you have shitty friends.

# They’re talking bad about you behind your back

If other friends are coming to you with news that a couple others are talking shit about you, then you clearly have really bad friends. They’re not friends if they’re being mean to you. Sure, friends can be annoyed with you but actually talking bad about you is a whole other, more harmful thing.

# They talk bad about people you care about

On the flip side, they might be talking shit to your face, just about other people you still like and care about. It can be your family members or just other people. If they’re talking bad about others to you, they’re probably talking bad about you to others. Get rid of those shitty friends.

# The prevent you from having fun

If they’re just full of negativity, they’re going to prevent you from having a good time. That’s just how those types of friends work. Whenever you go out for a good time, they end up making it horrible and they spoil all the fun.

# Their drama always leaks over into your life

Even if you have nothing to do with their other group of friends and somehow you end up tangled in their drama, they’re probably shitty friends. When a person makes your life worse instead of better and just adds more harmful things to it, they’re not good friends.

# You feel like you don’t really have friends

Even though you have people you call “friends,” you don’t feel like you truly have a friendship. If you feel lonely even when you’re surrounded with those people, I hate to break it to you but you have shitty friends. No true friends would ever make you feel this way.

# You feel judged for your choices

I get the feeling of being judged. You feel afraid to open up to your friends for fear of them judging you too harshly and making you feel bad for things. If that’s the case for you, then you don’t really have good friends. You have shitty ones.

First of all, you should always feel comfortable going to your friends with anything. If they make you feel judged, they’re not the type of people you should be spending your time with.