Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.
There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.
You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.
People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-action to learn from your example.
Sometimes a person needs us to abandon them, but we hang-on anyway, which can be devastating for both parties.
There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.
Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.
Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
Love toxic people from a distance.
Leaving is never easy, but sometimes it's necessary to save yourself, and others, from dying inside.