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"This weekend my wonderful roommate Nikki said recently she had to &amp;quot;break up&amp;quot; with some toxic friends. &amp;quot;They were just bad for my health,&amp;quot; she lamented with a heavy sigh. &amp;quot;They were my best friends, but ultimately they weren&amp;#x27;t good for me at all.&amp;quot; This niggled at me all weekend. I&amp;#x27;ve decided to cut out the cancerous people from my life, too. I&amp;#x27;d rather only spend time with people who I adore and value and most importantly, people who feel that way about me. My time and energy are very precious and quite frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t mind being alone. In fact, I like it. I&amp;#x27;m an only child and something of a narcissist, so it&amp;#x27;s great. But how do you dump a friend? Psychologists say it&amp;#x27;s best to just sit them down and say, &amp;quot;Look, this relationship isn&amp;#x27;t working for me anymore,&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;m a coward so that probably won&amp;#x27;t happen. Besides, I have no interest in getting into a friendship breakup fight. But sometimes when I think about deserting my bad friends I get sad... Sad that I wasted so much time helping them and caring what they thought. They put the &amp;quot;end&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;friendship,&amp;quot; honey. BYE! Have you had to dump friends? How did you do it? Did you ever take them back or were they done for good? Photo: Getty Images Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Add us to your Google homepage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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