[anon261114]

1) Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list

2) Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life.

Unfortunately, for me, those two points are in contradiction.

[minot]

I know it is never easy in practice and I'd urge you to think long and hard (like American founding fathers had to when seceding from Britannia) but it is possible and sometimes imperative to decide who is family and who is no longer family.