That post about mother nature being nurturing but red in tooth and claw has really resonated with me. I hope the human race has the sense to take the chance we've been given.
@popgoesthecat2, I'm sorry you are encountering this. I've also come across these types from time to time; thankfully rarely. Violet, your advice is good. It has more to do with who you'll allow to interact with your energy: a very different thing from a binding spell or something that actively interferes with another's will.
If even this isn't comfortable, you might want to try a protective spell around yourself instead.
I've left casting, even card reading, well alone for the past year. With my broken back, blood clots then DH's cancer, I didn't feel in any place to be influencing energy, as mine hasn't been strong or positive enough I feel to do anything healing or positive. I'm in a much better place now, albeit I always feel more magical stirrings in the seasons of spring and autumn.
Throughout this time I have been making regular trips to my special places, especially a local sacred spring. A major house cleanse is the first thing I'll do.
I've also 'owned up' to DH about my Paganism. He has a fascination with history which intersects with many of my areas of interest, and he was interested and supportive. I took him to the sacred well, and the monolith, and he was wowwed by that. I feel much better having been open about this: my spirituality is deeply personal to me and has never been a thing I've spoken about much. But I also don't want something so intrinsically important to me to be a secret from the one closest to me, so I'm glad he knows.