Toxic people

Right-newfound freedom and looking at a future of “exploration” has been fun fun fun.

Only problem I seem to be having now are the toxic people in my life. I have a group of friends that I run with, well family really, very close. We get on great but sometimes some of them attack me for NO reason whatsoever and a couple friends of friends are complete backstabbers.

I see them or hear about them and I want to puke…all over them.

I hope this doesn’t read like a whining thread...it certainly is not. I’m past the wishy washy on the topic. I am in F-off mode. Bums me out because I have been able to ignore them much of the time, but they keep pushing and I KNOW much of it is intentional. We all have bad days and make mistakes, but these people are complete assholes. I know I have the ability to twist people into seeing what slime they really are, but I rarely use it and I don’t want to. I hate that side of myself…a step beyond anger that I don’t like to take. The GOLDEN RULE, right?

I guess it’s really not about them anyway…it’s about my self respect.
One of them F-ed me over today in a pretty permanent way. More than once I’ve had precious things that are very close to my heart stolen that I can NEVER replace…no acknowledgement, no apology.

They really do sicken me and I have no intention of continuing contact with any of them, even if it means I lose some of the good ones-> been there before, for sure.

Any advice on how a nice person could handle this? Maybe how far I should go? Should I call up the demons?

Thanks