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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

5 Signs You Are Dating a Toxic Person

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Arguments in relationships are unavoidable. But if the guy you’re dating is more interested in winning them than solving the underlying problem together, chances are good he’s a toxic person. In this episode of LOVE Life, I’m laying out 5 distinct signs that the man you’re dating is toxic, so you can identify the behaviors and get out now before you get in too deep.

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0:00.0

Matthew hustled here with Love Life. Do you ever feel like you keep attracting the wrong

0:07.1

kinds of men? I can understand how frustrated and hopeless this must make you feel at times.

0:13.8

All you want is a good guy who appreciates you and treats you well, someone who's a partner

0:18.7

in all of life's ups and downs. But instead, you end up with jerks, or you're not alone.

0:25.1

So many women come relate. I want you to smile right now because today I'm going to give

0:30.3

you a simple way to get rid of the jerks and only attract quality men into your life.

0:36.7

Before I give that to you, let's get into today's episode.

0:42.8

I have a very interesting episode for you today. So many of you are going to want to listen

0:46.4

up because these are the signs that you are dating a toxic person. Here we go. By the way,

0:54.2

there are five of them. So get ready for this. Number one, they say things that they know

1:01.3

will hurt you in an argument to protect themselves instead of trying to solve the problem at hand.

1:08.1

So if you're with someone who tries to inflict damage instead of solving the argument, then

1:13.6

that person is toxic and you have to be very careful. I think of them like a scorpion.

1:18.9

In order to protect itself, the scorpion just stings you when you get close. It doesn't

1:23.8

get amicable and try and figure it out. It just stings you. And that's what this type

1:29.6

of person does. You get close. You try and discuss something. They just sting you. They

1:34.0

look to do damage instead of trying to resolve the issue. That's why these people will often

1:39.5

say very hurtful things that stick with you a long time and you find difficult to get

1:43.8

over. You'll find that their default will be game playing and outmaneuvering you instead

1:49.0

of being authentic and just admitting vulnerability. Number two, they treat everything like an

1:55.4

attack. When you try and get constructive in your criticism of them, when you try and

2:00.9

express to them a behavior that maybe you'd like them to change or something that upset

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