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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never cut off a friend or family member. Nor have I ever blocked a family member or friend. The idea of 'cancelling' people in your life isn't a value I hold. 
As an adult there are many ways to manage conflicts without the flouncing and announcing and going high drama about it. [/quote]

In general I agree -- the mature thing to do is to just draw your boundaries and hold them, and if that's unacceptable to others, they can make their own choices.

However I have effectively "cut off" some people because their behavior was so unacceptable to me that drawing boundaries with them basically meant we never saw each other again. Like I had a friend who gossiped about me so much that I just stopped sharing anything of any value with her and since the only reason she was friends with me was apparently to collect info, she lost interest.

I think this is often what people mean when they say "cut off." There are obviously also people who dramatic tell people "I'm never speaking to you again" but IME people who say stuff like that are looking for attention and don't actually wind up cutting anyone off.[/quote]

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