“Me and You is Friends”

Learning to be our own best friend can be challenging--especially in our relationships with those we care about whether they are family we inherit or friends we choose. As much as we want to be a good and positive friend or relative, when a relationship becomes toxic and it is causing us stress and frustration in our life, it serves us well to consider our choices. 

We can choose to go along at our own expense; we can choose to have a difficult conversation and express our needs and feelings, and hear the same from the other person, hoping that some understanding or change may occur; or we can remove ourselves from the relationship because ultimately it is not good for us and without hope of improvement. 

Standing in Our Own Truth

It takes great courage to take a stand for ourselves. We risk not being understood or being ostracized from a group and it may be painful not being there for another who we do care about. However, standing in our own truth and honoring our personal needs is a way to be our own best friend when all else fails. In the end we cannot tell others how to act or behave but we do know how their actions effect us. 

The anonymous saying below is extreme. But it does point to the importance of protecting ourselves from relationships that are harmful to us.