How Toxic People Show Their True Character With Actions, Not Words

Once you are aware actions are everything and words mean nothing.

Chris Freyler
3 min readMar 20, 2022
Photo by James Frewin on Unsplash

It was a brisk morning on February 23rd, 2018. I had just finished driving the day before and was tired.

Earlier the previous day, my girlfriend at the time and I argued. Well, not really an argument, but uneasiness. We’d been dating for two months.

She contacted me in a dramatic fashion as usual. Her yard was a mess, and her neighbor who was selling his house-made comments about it. He blamed his house for not selling on her disaster of a yard.

She contacts me in a panic. I couldn’t help myself; I snapped. I was already tired of all the drama she brought to every situation.

She ended up hanging up on me.

I called her back and offered to come and help clean her yard with her.

I “thought” she was newly divorced and trying to figure shit out. So I chalked it up as that and offered help.

She was very cold towards me and told me NO! She hung up on me, saying she could do the yard herself.

I let her be.

I got home that night, went for a walk, and sent her a text. It went unanswered. I didn’t think…

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Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.