My (24F) boyfriend (29M) owns his own business and last year enlisted the help of a man (40s M) who attended one of my boyfriend's cycling classes. Let's call this man George and let's call my boyfriend Kyle. George expressed interest in helping out with Kyle's business when they got to chatting after the class.

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George helped out with some things here and there for a few months. He seemed normal and competent enough. However, things got weird after Kyle organized a meeting with one of his mentors and George, since George is older and Kyle thought he could provide some good insight on which direction to take his business. During the meeting, George became incredibly agitated by the mentor and began asserting himself in a way that made Kyle feel very uncomfortable and like George was a little unhinged. Kyle began distancing himself from George after that.

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Several months later, George was in Kyle's office and again got extremely agitated for seemingly no reason. He showed his truly unhinged, crazy side and began yelling at my boyfriend and causing a scene. Kyle literally had to physically escort him out of the building at that point because his office is in a shared space and he was done dealing with the crazy.

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So this is where I come in. This morning, George decided to email Kyle and, for some reason, CC me (I help out a bit with the business and met George a few times) several months after the aforementioned incident to ask Kyle to delete his email account associated with the business. The email was a little sassy, but harmless enough. Kyle obliges by revoking George's access to the account as opposed to deleting it. George responds from a different account with the following:

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> You always were and clearly continue to be a selfish, lazy asshole. Thanks for nothing, as usual.

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I was pretty affronted by this, and I (looking back, very foolishly) responded with:

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>Hello,
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>A simple Google search would have shown you how to remove your business account from your Google account:
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>- On desktop: (link to a Google Support article)
>- On Android: (link to a Google Support article)
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>Additionally, a more professional email to Kyle would have accomplished deletion of your account WITHOUT burning a bridge, but it's clear the email account wasn't your issue here.
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>I'm blocking your email account, and I'd advise Kyle to do the same. Good luck.

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And I went ahead and blocked him, thinking that would be the end of it. But oh no. I never should have humored him with a response in the first place, because his crazy came back with a vengeance when he decided to reply from yet ANOTHER email account:

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>I appreciate you defending your perhaps otherwise noble partner - which remains in question - when and for where he clearly has little professional ability himself. Unless of course towering over me while marching me all the way to the front door and kicking me out of your offices and then never communicating with me again stands for professionalism. If so, then I think I've made my point and I stand by my statement. Ask yourself why you are responding here and not him? And why couldn't you guys just delete the account rather than revoking my access, thus provoking an additional response from me?

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>I dealt with and now continue to deal with Kyle and your organization on the level that it warrants. And as far as bridges go, you would have had to actually have built one to have anything to burn.

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>By the way, answers are only simple when you have them, or the ability to find them. I'm not sure why I wasn't finding the way to get rid of that email view, but I wasn't. Trust me, I was trying. So I truly appreciate your help in that regard. It made me anxious to even look at and clearly in the end promoted ill will on my part.

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>But my outrage isn't merely personal. I was always offended on a professional level at your lax attitude toward security. Why the hell did I have all that access all this time later? Why did I have to point it out? And further more what access remains for individuals that you have no idea about, including myself?

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>I gave more than Kyle really ever deserved and I'm even doing so here. I have no qualms about a little call out. You guys could all use a dose of reality, I would bet.

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>I appreciate that you can see that I was airing more than just the grievance of seeing a reminder of an undesirable situation, but also that it lead to a very uncomfortable experience for me to be sure. He physically got in my personal space and bullied me. It was totally uncalled for and I'm OK with getting that off my chest.

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>I also appreciate your response. It let me know all this time later I hit the target and things with your organization are business as usual. Which is to say lacking true leadership from its supposed leader.

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>Professional enough for you?

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>It's alright to block this email address as well. I'll be blocking yours also. Or at a minimum just sending yours to spam. I have no further desire to have anything to do with you guys either and I haven't for quite some time. God having that stupid email account there to keep seeing really sucked. I sincerely thank you for helping me get rid of it.

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>Otherwise, fuck Kyle and his behavior and all his bullshit and your thoughts on supposed professionalism. I may have my flaws, but I never treated him like that. And if you stand by his uncalled-for behavior, then fuck you too. It was wrong. And you should know that and he should know that. Everyone should.

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So there you have it. Don't ever give in and engage with crazy. The best response is to disengage, ignore, delete, or else you get hit with total insanity such as the above.