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Alright, if you guys will be patient with me, this will be lengthy. The situation I'm in is highly risky and sensitive which is why I have been over-the-top cautious and detailed when it came to my plan (below). In the past, I have dealt with situations of a stalker, blackmail, and other things with people, which is another reason the plan is cautious and detailed the way it is.

First, a little background. There is a family I have been close to for about 7 years. My fiance and I are friends with the children of this family (our age group), the female will be referred to as Mary and the male will be referred to as Joe. Mary is the eldest. Mary and Joe live with their grandparents in a trailer with an addition, their mother and stepfather live in a house on the same lot directly in front of them.
Over the years, I have had issues with Mary. At times, Mary and I were super close. Others, we were practically enemies. I, myself, have always had trouble when it came to having friends of the same sex. I've always had strained or really bad friendships with girls, so growing up I was one of the guys because of less drama and they were open to friendship more easily without being judgmental. So, I wasn't exactly too comfortable around Mary, so I would regularly spend more time hanging out with Joe and my fiance than I would with Mary. Also, the times that Mary had a boyfriend and he would come over, I'd also avoid hanging out with Mary to give them private time and not be that third wheel.
The problems would happen once to a couple times a year and they would last for MONTHS. On occasion we had no problems for a year in between. Well, for the past 3-4 years it has been filled with issue after issue consecutively. Here is a problem we have, ((communication)). For MANY MANY MANY times I have expressed to Mary, that if she has a problem with me, to tell me when she does so we can talk it out and make things better between us and avoid problems. THIS is how the problems start. For months I wait and stress because after a while I notice that Mary has a problem with me, but SHE WILL NOT for the sake of her TELL ME her problem with me. This, puts me into stress mode. Then, after having several personal meltdowns and tired of the issue, I confront Mary, catering to her. I have done this many times. Two times ago, I started confronting her grandmother first, because he grandmother made me promise to talk to her before talking to Mary about any issues so she can clear it up since Mary and her grandmother are super close. So, for the last two times I had.....both times I got put down and chewed out for being a "bad friend" when there was more evidence of Mary being a bad friend than I have ever been. Last time it was so bad, I thought of never going back because I was so uncomfortable, but I decided if there was ever a future problem to STOP going to her grandmother first, because for one her grandmother was one-sided and not open to both sides of the story, and because what was said never went back to Mary. Stupid and childish, I know, but I learned my lesson.
Which brings us up to date, to now.

The issue. As I said, Mary and I have had issues, and I have also had issues with her brother Joe, especially since the end of September this past year. It was August when Mary found out she was 4 months pregnant (naturally obese and a diabetic, so it took her longer to notice) with her boyfriend's baby, and she had the baby December 28th. I've had major issues with disrespect with Mary (for no reason), and even more disrespect out of nowhere from her brother Joe. I have put up with it so long, giving them both multiple chances and catering to them both. By October/November I gave up on Joe. But, I was willing to stick my neck out for Mary since at the time she was being better than Joe was. After a few months I have just lost it. I have been ignored regularly and mistreated by Mary and Joe has disrespected and ditched my fiance and I. Even Mary lied to me about letting me know firsthand when she was going into labor. Instead of sending me a text, she updated facebook THREE times on the way to the hospital. She was in labor for a day, so I cut her some slack, but she was still posting numerous updates to facebook from the hospital. No contact personally from her or her family to us. I waited and waited. Then, she had her baby and posted more updates. I kept waiting. I waited THREE DAYS for her to say something to me, to invite us to come see her child. So I finally sucked up my pride, said congrats to her under her photos of the baby boy and even said I couldn't wait to meet the kid. She had been individually saying thanks to everyone. Another person posted congrats after me and she just said thanks in general, then more people post and it's back to the individualized thank yous. She had been ignoring me on facebook for a couple months, but I had seen her out at the store and talking regularly like good friends just a week before she went into labor. Anyways, since then I have waited and been ignored by her and her family. In the past there have been other issues like talking me out of a career choice I had made, and that career choice had gotten me out of my suicide urges and I told her that too, but she still crushed my dreams on purpose and brought back those urges until life got better and i got offered the opportunity of a lifetime December 28th (same day Mary had her baby) which I will mention toward the end. Anyways, I have done NOTHING WRONG to her or her family. But, I'm just DONE with her and her family.

The precautions taken. Now, I've tried multiple ways handling this entire situation. I have tried ignoring her, letting the friendship fade naturally, posting vague "let friends go" quotes I've found, fairly often, and more. EVERYTHING, but catering to her and confronting her on the issue. After years of dealing with this and expressing to her how VITAL it is for her to come to me when she has problems, I've grown tired of this abusive game and will no longer confront her on the issue UNTIL she grows a pair and confronts me. I found a way for her to confront me without me confronting her and/or show the status of how she views our friendship without me doing much.
You are probably wondering why I have NOT just abruptly told her, "I'm ending our friendship, you are abusive and have been and I can no longer take it, so goodbye to you Miss Crazy Beach", OR even just block her without saying anything.
NATURALLY, I would just block her, or write that in a more reasonable manner and then block her. BUT, we have a catch. A personal issue. This issue will NOT be specified. But, it has put me in a very very VERY difficult spot on so many things, making this entire situation very risky and fragile beyond belief. The whole reason why I've been stressing, scared, and came up with a detailed/cautious plan.

The plan itself. I started it on Facebook and it's a facebook-related plan. First, I went on her profile and to her friends list and blocked all of her stalking accounts. YES, she has stalking accounts from where she has stalked exes and even tested exes for their loyalty with them so she would stupidly friend the accounts to fool the exes that the fake account was a friend of hers in real life. So, I blocked all 5 accounts. Then, I blocked Joe's account. Joe made a new account 6 weeks ago, I added him, he's on there fairly regularly, but never accepted my request. No one would notice if I blocked him, so I did. Then, I went to my privacy settings and changed them to where the public couldn't view any info except my name and see my friends as well as public apps like bitstrips and that's all. That way, if Mary made a new stalker account, she still couldn't know anything about me. Now, Mary and Joe have been known on occasion to hack other people's facebooks. I've seen them actually do it. I made it to where they couldn't hack my account from unknown devices without a security code that is directly sent to my phone. Even via email. With those barriers in place, those barriers are for dealing after the main phase of my plan if things were to backfire in my face so things would be taken care of. Here is my main plan since those are the precautions:
I will write a status on facebook, changing the audience to public for that status. I will say I'm cleaning up my friend's list, no one is safe except those I recently added a while back, so here is the heads up. That I will do it by such and such day. As in, 1-3 days time they have till then to like my status. (But put into better words than that). Since I've been ignored by Mary and her entire family for months now, and she and others haven't like my statuses, I know for a fact she wouldn't like the status. I've asked in the past many a time if my friends are my friends to like my status or that I needed friends at the time and she would NEVER respond to anything. THE NEXT PHASE, after the 1-3 days are up, I shall delete Mary and her entire family as well as unknown or inactive accounts I have friended to ease the suspicion that it's made entirely out towards her and her family. Then, I will make another public audience announcement for those unfriended (Mary and her family) will be able to see saying that as I said before, NO ONE was safe from the cleanup and to readd me if they wish. If not, I take no offence to it, it was not meant out of anger or to offend, but to "just clean up". Now, I DO know for a fact that whenever Mary does notice that we aren't friends, that will be the first to pop up because i rarely use apps on my facebook and rarely make public announcements, so she will definitely notice it when she searches for me eventually. She will confront me asking why I deleted her or some other stuff if she really does care. She is on practically daily, but I will give her 3 weeks to a month before I full-on block her. By then I KNOW she will have noticed. If she hasn't said anything or done anything, then I know she doesn't care and it will be okay and have ended peacefully WITHOUT that personal issue going into effect. Now, if she does eventually like the statuses or tries to readd me, I can simply just ignore it and if i ever see her I can just say I haven't seen the request.

Okay, I know that was a lot, but I think this plan is fool-proof. YES, it's over-detailed, but it HAS to be due to that personal issue I refuse to make known. Since November, my primary focus has been ending friendships that will cause me drama and surrounding myself with positive people. December 28th, the morning of and before Mary had her baby that day, I got offered the opportunity of a lifetime. To go back to college to pursue my dream career, all expenses paid, and get opportunities at 2 colleges most students don't get, and other amazing benefits as well. My sister and her husband life 5 minutes from one college and 20 minutes from the other (they live 3.5-4 hours away from me and my family currently) but they said I could room with them temporarily for a couple years in order to do this and then after I would transfer back here to the area. I'm one who stays stressed 24/7 even with ALL techniques suggested to me, I've tried. But, I NEED NEED NEED to get rid of drama now before I move away to college by the middle of May. I don't want to jeopardize my grades or my wellbeing after I have moved by worrying about lost friendships (which I have to the point of being chronically sick for months in the past). I want to end ALL friendships of toxic people and make things better for me. I ended friendship with another girl a few weeks ago and it was a mutual friend of Mary and I and I knew that Mary would tell the mutual friend more than likely so I made a status saying that we were just 2 different people and that it was ended peacefully with no regret or ill will to the person. I knew it would end up going back to the mutual friend so it was easier to just block and end that friendship. It was one of my main worries too, but I knew Mary and Joe would be harder because it would be an ENTIRE family friendship ruined because of one-two lost friendships I've repeatedly tried to salvage. Now, I have no super close friends who are also friends with Mary. I keep things very close/strict. I only have 2 super close female friends, one of them Mary despises, the other doesn't know Mary at all. So, I know I can't just do the same thing I did for the mutual friend, to Mary, since I know it won't get back to Mary.
If you read this entirely, I sincerely appreciate you taken several minutes from your life to acknowledge this. If not and you read the TD;LR, that's okay too, still thank you.


TD;LR: Problems with abusive friends for years (referred to as Mary and her brother Joe here). I've repeatedly tried to save friendships to end up getting abused more. I've always catered to Mary with confrontation and expressed the importance of her coming to me with her problems many times in the past. She never does and waits for me to cater to her. After months of ignoring/avoiding me, lying, and disrespect from her and her family, I'm DONE. At this point, I'm ready to end friendship with them/their family. Due to a personal reason I refuse to make known, this is a super risky/delicate situation where I can't just abruptly block and end the friendship. I came up with a fool-proof plan that is listed above and am wondering if it will work. If there are any flaws in it, let me know but I've been studying it for over a day. I know it's really detailed and I sound paranoid, but with other reasons above, I need them out of my life in a peaceful manner. I've tried many ways suggested to me and all this has become is a stalemate of nothing being done, and this is all I have left. I want the drama done before I leave for college in May.

It was lengthy. Lol. It's fine. I'm detail-oriented. Thanks! That would be fun.
Yea, I've been dealing with it for years. Both of them have been taking advantage of us on multiple levels. It's because of the length of the friendship and the closeness that we all had that made things worth looking past. Or, so I thought. Realistically, it's just not worth it anymore and the only way I could think of deleting/blocking without risking that unknown personal reason to go into effect, was to come up with the plan and the precautions. Since the precautions have been taken, I can now carry out the plan. I've been thinking of when to do it or if there are any flaws I had missed before I carry it out so I know it will work out. I just can't wait until it is over at this point. I need to heal a lot from it.