There’s a couple of rellies with whom I had toxic relationships, and for my own good and sanity, I cut them off. I didn’t do it abruptly or anything, either; I let them know the issues I was having with them and asked that we deal with them together. They declined, in the sense that I was told that I was full of crap and they attempted to continue to treat me as they always had. At some point, one has to put up one’s boundaries, so I ended things with them.
Since then, I get word occasionally through the grapevine that these people consider me a disloyal, selfish bitch for walking away. I think there’s a difference between true disloyalty, which I consider to be throwing people under a bus for your own ends, and doing what you have to do for yourself, or as @Austinlad‘s poem puts it, being to thine own self true.