Three or four years ago I was dating this girl for a couple months. Things were starting to head in the direction of a relationship - she dropped the "L" word on me. At about the two month mark she invited me to meet her best-friend. Her best friend was a total b*tch to me (unprovoked), I took it multiple times without throwing anything back at her, and then I got dumped just a couple days later. I was blue-pilled back then. My mistake at the time was thinking I had to impress her friend, or at least stay on her good side. I repeated that same mistake again about a year later when the wife of a good friend of mine started flipping me sh*t - I cared what she thought about me because it was my close buddy's wife. But from both the scenarios, what I learned is that my boundaries are my boundaries, and I should not accept anyone criticizing me or being an a$$, no matter who they are. After learning those lessons, and ensuring I defend myself against unreasonable attitude and call people out for it, they usually respect me much more, and if they don't, the h*ll with them. If that causes an issue between me and a friend and they can't understand it wasn't my fault, then the friendship wasn't meant to be. So far that hasn't happened though - my friends have always stuck with me because they agreed that what was said wasn't called for.
A lot of c*ck blocking is going to happen when doing night-game and club-game. I avoid those scenarios for many of the same reasons as I avoid OLD. The quality of women are low and they feel they are perched up high on a throne.