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May we have a thread where we unload frustrating things people with no boundaries have done to us?

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TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 24/07/2019 10:44

This last week alone my parents have:

Gone through my rubbish.
Waited until I popped upstairs for wee and then gone through my drawers. (I was gone less than a minute).
Intercepted the postman and when hand my post cross examined it, decided it was probably a bank statement and held it in a death grip refusing to hand it over.
Interogated their grandson about being bullied despite being asked repeatedly not to mention it because it upsets him.

I could fill a whole thread alone but it would quickly become both boring and unhealthy.

Anyone got any other batshit stories to share?

Please tell me I'm not alone.

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Bezalelle · 24/07/2019 11:51

I feel ya.

Too many to even begin to list, but the most recent from Mother was dominating a conversation about my forthcoming wedding with some guff about how she doesn't want to be known as "Grandma" by my future children.

Another bad one was claiming that my late partner's death was "very hard" for her. She'd never even met my partner.

paffuto · 24/07/2019 12:28

My parents live in Spain. My mother really disliked Princess Diana and used to pull her to bits (probably because I liked her). When Diana died her Spanish friends were all sympathising with mother as she "cried" inconsolably about the death. Never forgotten it, phoney, phoney, phoney!! Went NC ten years ago, best thing I ever did.

H2OH20Everywhere · 25/07/2019 18:49

My sibling has no idea of what boundaries are. Consequently I live a few hundred miles from them and see them only when necessary, approx once every five years.

To give a few examples:
(Not to me but my then flatmate): within 5 mins of meeting him and learning he was gay asked who was the king and who the queen in his relationship!

Out for dinner one evening with my mum and me, in a restaurant, once we had started eating, she mentioned that her periods were finally regular and went into great depth discussing them. I considered moving to another table!

Tried to seduce a friend of mine at our mother's house. She didn't fancy him and was happily married, she was just jealous that he was my friend not hers. She started off by admiring his underpants (which she couldn't, actually, see) and tried to take him upstairs. When that didn't work she commented on the fact his shirt was open and showing chest hair, with the implication being that he was fat. The fact it was the middle of a heatwave being neither here nor there! When she accepted she'd failed she asked if he was going to the local Pride event that weekend (as that was obviously the only reason he was turning her down, the fact he was happily partnered up being irrelevant). And after he left he told my mother she should have rung the police as he was drink-driving (but she was being magnanimous by not doing so) - there is no way my mother would have let him leave after more than half a glass of wine.

I could go on but they're the most shocking examples.

ForalltheSaints · 25/07/2019 18:58

We are led by a person without many boundaries, especially when it comes to fidelity.

User0ne · 25/07/2019 19:36

@forallthesaints

We're being led by Boris's Johnson

Thisisthelaststraw · 25/07/2019 19:43

My M did similar things to my brother and me well into our thirties and has made attempts to parent (read: interfere and dictate to) my dd too.

Too many occasions to list. I’ve been NC since January and though it hurts when I give it some thought I have managed to realise it’s best for me, Dh and Dd.

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