Friendship can be very tricky. People change as they mature. This can be for the better or for the worse. How do you know where your friends stand? Are your friends ruining your mental health?That's the question Josh and Casey attempt to answer in today's episode. To start off the guys share their initial thoughts on why guys have trouble with toxic friends including desperation for friendship and naivety with emotions. Next, some statistics on friendship are discussed before going into the most common signs of toxic friendship including bullying, social pressure, bad habits, and loyalty. Moving into some possible solutions Josh and Casey discuss how to categorize your friends and reevaluate current friendships. This causes Casey to bring up basic qualities in a friend which prompts Josh to ask if online friendships can suffice. Finally, the guys wrap up with how to decide on distancing a friend vs. cutting them off completely.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Guys being naive with friends from desperation
4:55 - Statistics on toxic friend ignorance
6:50 - Differences between joking and bullying
11:40 - Social pressure toward bad behavior
22:00 - Having friends with bad habits
26:45 - How to deal with disloyal/lying friends
28:22 - Having categories of friends
30:59 - Reevaluting current friendships
33:35 - Basic questions on friendship evaluation
35:45 - Can you have meaningful friends online?
38:05 - Deciding on distancing vs. cutting off friends

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