We all know someone or have friends who are like emotional vampires and drain the happiness from you. What things do they do that drains you? Be interesting to know what things bother others.
I live with an emotional vampire, I have a friend who likes to talk about herself all the time, I live next door to a know it all and my sister is an authoritarian ( good hearted) but no opinions are as good as hers. Good job she lives out the country!
People who feel obliged to over-compensate for their inferiority complexes by putting you down all the time. Trying desperately to make themselves feel superior. Only last night I joined my regular pub meeting, for the ( usual) one to sneer at the fact that I was wearing a hat. She has been known to sneer at a mention of the crime rate in certain countries well-known for vicious crime; sneering about a very insecure child's clingy behaviour - she never misses a chance to put people down. My solution to some of these sneers is to speak to others in the group in a language she doesn't know. Not much she can sneer about if she doesn't understand what we are saying.