Want to talk about it? My relationship w/ my brother was pretty bad.. but there is another that comes close...

He's not a relative. He was the pastor of a church I attended with my wife. It's a mainstream denomination.. nothing really weird.. they didn't even require membership, and no fire-and-brimstone preaching.

Anyway, a guy about 15 years younger than myself started attending with his wife. I tried to be friendly with the guy... and was given the cold shoulder. Then he started getting to know our pastor and it turns out he is in the ministry and wants to become a pastor himself. Then he starts wanting to get to know me, and just is always in control and very manipulative. At one point he tells me I'm his best friend (I know, kinda weird, right). I started trying to get away... but still tried to be polite... anyway he pulls crap like being a total **** and then accuses me of ignoring him when I tried to ignore him and get away.
Things start to escalate when his wife sends me an email and accuses me of all kinds of weird things, and in the email says she thinks it's funny that I think I'm the guys best friend (I know! Really weird, right?). Then we traded a few more emails before he tells me he's blocking my email address. This is after we stopped attending the church... I have never met a more nasty, manipulative couple in my life... But, he left me feeling like he had come in to my life, tried to make me as miserable as possible.. then told me it was all my fault... and then left...

I was doing fine with never seeing him again, until I saw him at a wedding over the weekend.. He was all smiles, like nothing had ever happened between us, and then tried to shake my hand... I refused.

The worst part is, it appears my wife even thinks I'm to blame... I'd like her to see them the same way I do... but, she appears to be just fine talking with them.

The couple have even let me know that they think it's funny that I'm angry that they did so many nasty things.. and that I have no way to prove it, or get even. They appear to take delight in trying to have a good relationship with my wife... like it's the last knife they can dig into me.