Toxic relationships are one of the major stressors responsible for mental health problems and most people don't know the signs of it and keep dragging it at the expense of their own mental health. A thread on it. 1/n

Just because you are in a relationship doesn't mean that your partner/friend can trespass your personal space. There have to be some boundaries set at the very beginning. 2/n

One of the reasons why most business and relations fail is the lack of communication. It's very necessary to have a clear, honest discussion rather than indulging into mind reading and extracting wrong assumptions. 3/n

Any relationship is like a contract where two people have to maintain a certain standard of honesty and commitment. If there are trust issues, it already means something is wrong and a broken promise damages the foundation of a relationship. 4/n

If the partners involved don't see each other on the same pedestal as equals there are bound to be conflicts in their interpersonal domains which might lead one partner assuming an authoritarian attitude and submission by other leading to what we call, 'toxic behavior' 5/n