Category Archives: In All Seriousness

Coping With Bullies and Toxic People: Closure

This is the final chapter in this series on coping with bullies and toxic people. I’m going to discuss closure or, rather, how to find freedom in walking away from toxic individuals without getting closure. I didn’t plan it this way, but it is fitting to have this post publish on Independence Day.

Coping With Bullies and Toxic People: Getting Caught In The Middle

Despite our best efforts, sometimes we still get caught up in the web of toxic individuals. They use our name in vain or somehow get us tied up in whatever innocent-looking scheme they’ve got cooked up, but by the time we find out what it is, our own goose is cooked. Triangulation is the dance that bullies and toxic individual perform to provoke jealousy or animosity between other individuals, all the while playing the innocent bystander. But if you find yourself in the muck, even when you are minding your own business, you will likely find that you are caught in the middle of a very toxic triangle.