You want a best friend and a narcissist won’t be one. You want a confidante and a narcissist uses your words against you. At best, Hijackals® are frenemies. You’re unsafe around them. You feel the lack of safety, but sometimes you don’t want to admit it. You recognize the friend/foe nature of them, and don’t want it to be so.
Listen in to why it is important to recognize that frenemies is as close as you will ever really get to them. Sad, I know, but REAL!
If you have a Hijackal® in your life, you have a frenemy. No doubt about it! A frenemy is a person who combines the characteristics of a friends and an enemy. Once you know a Hijackal, you know that the “enemy” is always lurking. You cannot relax completely…if at all. They are ready to pounce unexpectedly. And, it hurts!
HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS EPISODE:
- What frenemies are
- How frenemies scare you
- Why you’re often afraid to get rid of a frenemy
- 10 distinct kinds of frenemies (Oh, dear!)
- Make a decision about them….preferably now!
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Here are a couple other episodes that discuss this topic of Frenemies and other toxic folks: