We live in a flat, on the same floor opposite is a young woman who is very nice but she's very needy. She's a lone parent to her son who is 2. I live with DH and our 2 DC.
I've sometimes invited my neighbour round for the odd meal...it seems somehow mean not to when I'm cooking a large roast dinner for instance as there's a lot there and I know that she doesn't cook things like that for herself.
She seems to be always hinting or hoping though...and I don't always want company. Today for instance I didn't make a big dinner....just a cheese pie and some wedges...it was eaten a while ago and she just came home from her brother's house and as usual let her toddler bang on my door....one of my DC ran to open it as she likes the little boy a lot and sometimes plays with him.
My nieghbour however will just let her toddler barge into my flat and look helpless when he does it....instead of pre-empting this she will stand there and say "Oh he goes mad if I don't let him knock."
So if I don't want company I just pick him up and carry him back to his Mum...I did this today as I was trying to chill out (am knackered and have flu like thing)
She stood chatting at my door for a while, letting her son scream and try to push his way in....then she asked what I'd been cooking...I told her....and she said "Oh I was at my brother's and he and his wife were making chilli...he wanted me to stay but she didn't."
It's just SO awkward! Like she's hinting for an invitation. This time round there was none left anyway but usually we'd be eating about now and what do I do??
Just shut the door in her face and go and eat dinner with my family?
I've painted her badly because I'm just a bit fed up with MOthering her....I'm about 15 years older and she does view me as a Mother figure I know...she IS lonely and she IS nice but it's all a bit much.
DH and other DC are both out and this is one of the few times I get any alone time!
AIBU?
To feel so awkward about my lonely neighbour?
TheHouseOnBellSt · 12/07/2015 18:10
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