How to Deal with Negative People & Toxic Family Members

Wondering how to deal with toxic people? Getting closer to the holidays, more often than not we have to spend more time with our family members. That old saying of “you can pick your friends, but not your family” rings true for many, and unfortunately this goes especially for when you’re forced to spend time with relatives that are really no good for you.

Toxic relationships can be very difficult to deal with. When there’s a toxic relationship in our lives, we can usually drop them like a bad habit and never have to worry about them again. But what about our family members that we see time and time again? Do you just stop being a family? Hopefully, this isn’t the case, but sometimes regardless of the circumstance, you need to cut out toxic people from your life when it comes to a matter of your own mental and physical health…or sometimes even your safety!