Blocking Mr. Manipulator

Over the years, it seems like I've become quite fine tuned to spotting someone with malevolent intentions. But that's in my work life and unfortunately I'm not so sharp in my personal life, especially when I considered this person to be a friend.

It's true what they say: You never really know someone. It helps to live with them to know them but I never lived with them, either. But they chased me and chased me earlier this year and eventually I gave in.

And wow, over the following few weeks it's like they became a different person from their persona that I knew and knew for many years. It's scary to think people can be so manipulative, but once they revealed their deeper self to me I could no longer ignore their fakeness and insincerity. So I blocked them and now they don't exist to me anymore and I feel much, much better for it.

Sometimes that's the only way to deal with these people, otherwise they just drag you down and rob you of your energy.