Good friendships can add value and meaning to marriage as opposed to toxic friendships. Good friends can help shape our marriages because they are a force that helps us better our marriages.
However, toxic friends are only there to ensure your life and marriage goes down into ashes.
Here are three kinds of toxic friends who could harm your marriage.
1. The friend who talks ill about their spouse or your spouse
These are the types who bad-mouth almost everyone including their spouses. Such people aren't good for you because, at some point, their negative energy will get to you and mess you up.
2. The friend who always puts you against your family
The kind of friend always expecting you to choose them over your family is no good. They advise you to do things their way rather than your family way. Friends who say things like "you don't have to call home before doing whatever you want to do" or "he/she controls you a lot" mean no good for your marriage. They are the kind of friends who take much of your time more than your family.
3. A close friend of the opposite sex
When it comes to marriage, close friendship with a person of the opposite sex is unhealthy. No matter how mature your partner might be, having a close friend of the opposite sex will definitely make them feel insecure.
Such friends will create distrust in your marriage which is not a good thing at all.