What's one behavior you thought was normal but now you know is toxic?

[letuswaltzforthedead]

What are some red flags that you missed? Could be for friends or relationships or anything. I think I've missed quite a few with my past friendships.

[FilmGuy93]

I genuinely believed for the longest time that it was suuuuper normal for parents to actively hinder their kids from doing shit like getting a job, saving money, going on vacations; having luxuries; etc.

It was only after I got out of highschool and moved to a new town that I started putting pieces together. The realization hit me like a train because I noticed that I would tell people about my childhood like it was totally normal and they'd consistently respond with something to the effect that they were sorry I had "gone through that."

[maximumpower]

Spouse who told stories I knew to be false to others. She was practicing for when she'd tell them to a Judge about me and our son.
"Friends" that would tell me crappy things about some of their other friends. When I wasn't around, they in turn heard such things about me.

[Agape93]

Gaslighting. When my ex did it, I never heard of the term nor experienced it before. Now I know better.

[MCheetah]

I have none to name, because I can always spot "toxic" behavior. Although I am REALLY F*CKING SICK of that Millennial buzzword. "Toxic" used to mean radioactively poisonous. Nowadays, it just means "not feminist approved and disagreeable." F*CK YOU, Britney Spears!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZuxwVk7TU

[Guy13]

Accept no Blame (er) in last relationship falling apart. Presenting it from a perspective that the failure was exclusively the other person's fault leading to a self-absorbed and right in circumstance personality. Figured that out at 22...

[Jennz6]

I didn’t see any red flags 🚩?

[MCheetah]

LOOK AGAIN!!!