Horrible neighbours

[howmanyslippers]

I live next door to a vile couple which seem to have it in for me, the woman came banging at my front door around a month ago threatening to pull my hair out and screaming in my face. Loads of kids play outside the front and she got another girl mixed up with my dd but still no apology.

I have to walk past their house every day for work and school run, they stand outside the front door glaring at me I absolutely cannot stand it, I'm on my own with my 2 young dd and I honestly don't know where to look I feel so uncomfortable. Has anyone else been through it or have any advice? I don't even want to leave the house

smile and wave.

it will piss them off even more and confuse them greatly.

Yep - smile and wave. Will do her/their head in more than you saying anything.

It's honestly one of those things that you either have to put up with or move away from and it's just dreadful I've experienced it in both my houses now for the past 10 years. CCTV everywhere and curtain twitching every time I open my door so someone always know what I'm doing. Trespass, criminal damage, harassment. It's all so hard to prove and my council/police have been generally useless. I just ignore them as best as possible and it's worked well so far. They're trying to get a reaction from me and if I don't give one then they'll just get bored. I've never understood why some people enjoy making their neighbour's lives hell but I've noticed it's often those with too much time on their hands. Hope it gets better for you OP!

That sounds horrible, can you alter the times you leave the house to avoid them, do they always stand outside staring, that's rude and intimidating and a weird thing to do. Do you have a friend who can do the school run with you or someone at work you can walk with. It would be easy to say put headphones in, just ignore rhem but they shouldn't be allowed to frighten you. Do you rent or own your house.

I feel like it's honestly making me ill. I am in a council house renting but I'm trying move, I don't know how long I can stay here.

A part of me wants to tell them to get fucked but I don't know what they are capable of and after her threatening me in front of my kids I wouldn't want a kick in in front of them and the way they are I wouldn't be surprised if she did. I don't have any friends that live near me too so that doesn't help :(. And yes they do, as I head out to do the school run and when I'm walking back home, stood outside smoking glaring at me.

Could anyone at the council help support you. Can you walk on the other side of the road.

Wave and shout morning. The nicer you are the more it will piss them off!!

The incident when she came round threatening to pull my hair out and give me a kick in my girls were stood crying so I rang the police, the police said basically wait and see if she does anything again.

I mentioned them on my housing application to move but I think I might just ring the council this week to see if they could help in anyway. There is no pathway opposite just a road unfortunately. I'm quite an anxious person anyway which probably doesn't help, I don't know where to look when I'm walking past, on my phone? Straight ahead? I just don't want them to think I'm bothered by them either.

Look straight ahead, you don't need to feel ashamed, they are being mean, they will be like this with everyone, don't let them bully you. Have a secret little smile to yourself and see them for what they really are.

I've been through this . What I did was just get on with my day and been nice and polite to the rest of the street and acted like they 2 of them weren't there. It took some time but all is now calm. Hell neighbours like this love to see you upset and love you confronting them as it gives them an excuse to go at you. As for coming in your house that was way too far and the police should have done more. Chin up and put the blinkers on don't let the intimidation get to you .