What are the signs of a toxic friendship?

Overtime, I have seen a lot of people complaining about their friends and the kind of friendship or relationship they are having with them. I have come to understand that if you are too careless in selecting your friends, you are more prone to enter into a toxic friendship. One of the ways to know if you are in a toxic relationship or friendship is the attitude you both have towards each other.

The first element that defines a true friendship is love, but for toxic friendships, they are largely founded on deception and lies. Both of you are actually not in the relationship for each other, but rather what you both stand to gain from the friendship, and most times friendship is all about sacrifices. Another sign of a toxic friendship is that; you would be observing that your friends are not always ready to pay some sacrifices unconditionally. You might also be noticing negative things like hatred, jealousy, malice, etc.

Not all friendships are good. Some may appear to be useful, but they turn out to be wrong. This is because they are toxic friendships. It could be because one friend has good intentions, but the other one does not. This other person may only be friends with this person to gain something.

Usually, a toxic friendship may have one friend that is jealous of the other. The jealousy may be from one friend having more money or prettier than the other. However, there are some clear signs when a friendship is toxic. Some of these signs include being too competitive, too critical, too emotional, jealousy and one side are contributing to the association more than the other.