2 Quilt:

I have ended friendships for the same reason. And you are the one who encouraged me to do it in a previous post. I told my husband he could remain friends, but surprisingly it did not work out.

The guy just could not shake the fact that his rude obnoxious behavior triggered me and he would talk about it everytime he saw my husband.

My husband got tired of him as well and he just kind of disappeared from our lives. His wife was very nice, but too tolerant of her assanine husband.

Take your own advice and dump the jerk. I know you have done it before and it is hard; but so is being physically and emotionally ill.