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8 Bad Habits That Can Make People Avoid Being Around You
Stop doing them if you want to lose friends.
Some people have bad habits that make it nearly impossible to keep their friends for long.
When they meet someone new and become close, it doesn’t take long before this person gets tired of their bad habits and begins to avoid them.
I’ve been there before, where I found myself distancing myself from someone I initially liked. We didn’t have personal issues. It’s just that they had certain habits with which I didn’t feel comfortable.
Habits have a subtle way of being unconsciously transferrable. If you don’t want to start a specific habit, don’t put yourself in an environment that makes it easy to internalize the habit.
If you tend to lose friends faster than you make them, here are ten habits that may be causing it.
You talk without restraint.
People rarely like those who never get tired of yapping non-stop.
When someone talks too much, always wants to interrupt others, and dominates discussions, it shows a lack of social awareness rooted in bad character.
Even if you’re naturally talkative, the ability to hold yourself back from always having something to…
