Your mental energy is finite. Toxic people who drain you don't just hurt you, they hurt everyone around you by stealing the attention you could give to people who matter. Set boundaries to protect both yourself and the people you care about.
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We have only so much mental capacity. And when you deal with that agent that you want to bang their head against the wall for 5 years, dude, they drain, they take a chunk. And I learned if I spend so much time with him, I miss all y'all because I did a poor job setting expectations. Or even if I want to blame him and blame him for all the reasons why we're at this rub point, and I'll literally watch that fool drown in a pool if he chooses to jump in. When I'm like, yo, don't jump in, there's crocodiles in there, you're gonna drown. I'm telling you, you're gonna drown if you go in there. He goes in, I have no problem, dude. I'll take the remote, put my feet up, and watch TV. I just don't care that much. I do, but I know he impacts all the other people I gotta handle, so I'm not gonna let him let y'all drown.