what should i do if i want to drop contact with someone, but doing so will almost certainly result in fallout that causes my other friends to hate me
my other friends are good people, but they can be kind of gullible, and the person i want to drop is really, really good at manipulating people into thinking they're an innocent angel and everyone else is the devil.
they will definitely notice if i cut contact with them, even quietly, and they will definitely try to smear me because of it. this person has stalked and badmouthed people for literally years on end, people who haven't even spoken to them once in that time, over the most trivial shit (and from what i can tell, problems they themselves caused). they used to wank about this to me, trying to make me hate the other person. frankly, they freak me out a little and i want to gtfo.
do i just have to resign myself to losing my friends? i guess i will if that's what has to happen, but i'm wondering if maybe there's a better way to handle this without causing a shit storm
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my other friends are good people, but they can be kind of gullible, and the person i want to drop is really, really good at manipulating people into thinking they're an innocent angel and everyone else is the devil.
they will definitely notice if i cut contact with them, even quietly, and they will definitely try to smear me because of it. this person has stalked and badmouthed people for literally years on end, people who haven't even spoken to them once in that time, over the most trivial shit (and from what i can tell, problems they themselves caused). they used to wank about this to me, trying to make me hate the other person. frankly, they freak me out a little and i want to gtfo.
do i just have to resign myself to losing my friends? i guess i will if that's what has to happen, but i'm wondering if maybe there's a better way to handle this without causing a shit storm