I release toxic people from my life.

There are people whose name on a screen changes your posture before you have read a single line. That is worth taking seriously as information — the body registers a pattern long before anyone would say anything out loud about it.

Releasing does not always mean a scene, or a final conversation, or a verdict on somebody's character. Often it is much smaller: replies that get slower, invitations that stop being sought, a gradual reallocation of a limited resource.

You are allowed to spend your attention on people who are easy to be near.