Negative people.

I was in a relationship with a very negative person. He was my children's father, and I was in love so I didn't recognize the drain. He didn't want a job, and whenever he would get one, he would only keep it for a while before he found an excuse to quit. He never liked any of my ventures, and would talk down about them whenever he got a chance. I stayed in the relationship because he was a very smart person and I felt that if I gave him the right motivation, he would see that he could make something of himself, at least more than what he was. Well, he ended up leaving me for another woman, and I was devastated at first, but after passing a year that he has left I can finally see what a negative person he was, and that he never wanted anymore in life than what he had. Its sad really, not wanting to rise above, not wanting to do better than others, but the drain is gone from my life, and I now am happy that he is gone.

I really like your view on negative people, and the quotes you used are great. I agree with you completely. I hate negative people, and if I know someone like that I simply ignore them. Because if they feel like they can't get me down, they'll move on to someone else. They are not worth your time, and the best thing to do is just completely ignore them.

oh, them! i almost forgot those kind of people.Yes, they are around crawling in some poor souls nerves.They can never go away , they are multiplying and they are viral. I just simply shrug them off my shoulders and warn them not to get in my way or else they will just be wasting their time.

My mother is my emotional vampire and I had to move her from my home into a nursing home and then I had to stop going over and seeing her. I hate her, I hate what she has become. She expects her daughters to do everything for her and she things we owe her. She also is so negative with every thing, her favorite words are "I can't or you can't" . She took to her bed at the age of 59 and now is 72 and cannot hardly move because of being in bed for so long. I can go on and on for days of the negative things she has done to herself and to me so I will stop it right here.

There is one negative person in our family. She glories in others' bad luck, causes arguments by intentionally misquoting conversations, pits sister against sister, friend against friend, and has verbally attacked her parents without cause. Any girl over age 10 is competition, and therefore a 'tramp', and she blatantly flirts with any male past puberty. We unfortunately allowed it to go on for much too long. In the misguided attempt to 'keep the family together', we were allowing her to tear it apart! When our father passed away two years ago, I informed my siblings that I would no longer tolerate her or her actions. We had many conversations, mostly dealing with the guilt we would feel in shunning one of our own. But that guilt is self-imposed, and we should not feel that way because she has never felt any guilt, compassion or real love for any of us. There was no fight, no showdown, no opportunity for her to turn our good natures against us. We simply stopped calling, stopped inviting, stopped enabling, stopped accepting the pain. She, interestingly enough, has never tried to find out why! I have heard recently that she has disowned us because we are two-faced and holier-than-thou. I take that as a compliment!