How do you deal with toxic people?

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I like to bait them into thinking they're setting me up so I get all the benefit but then make sure their reversal plan backfires.

But I'll do it in a way that makes me look blissfully unaware of what I'm doing.

It's the same feeling I get when I cut off a guy in a BMW. Lke some small thing in the world has achieved balance even for a moment.

[c704710]

Matthew 10:16, Matthew 7:16, Proverbs 4:23, Luke 5:16, basically, recognise them for what they are, communicate, set boundaries, increase distance when required, don't be a doormat.
Matthew 7:3-5, basically, be certain you are not actually the toxic person.
Proverbs 15:1, basically, don't engadge or esculate
Romans 12:14-21, basically, pray for them

If you prefer to avoid the above source, try Marcus Aurelius' Meditations:

"Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to _them_ by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil." Basically, anticipate what are *you problems* rather than *me problems*. Pity, not anger. Tend to you own mind and treat it as your shelter.
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." Basically, recognise what is toxic and personally do something opposite or better.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I love this

[egan3141]

Your example makes YOU sound like the toxic one...

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I fight fire with fire 😂

[Geminiaqua]

when i deal with them, i try not to be shady myself, so i can keep my hands clean

[Anonymous]

Tell them to go fuck themselves and stay the fuck away from you.

[Raydergman26]

At times I set it up to fell

[worldscolide]

I don't, I remove them from my life

[NathanDavis]

I don't.