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AIBU For feeling harrassed and a little conerned??

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dingdongmrs · 12/05/2011 12:44

This may all sound very silly and maybe i am overreacting. i will start at the beginning, it shouldnt be too long!

Me and my husband use facebook, we have two fb friends that are the parents of our childs friend, they are in school together. We used to talk to them alot i suppose because we see them everyday at school but we wouldnt class them as real life friends, just the parents of our childs friend, so obviously we were poliet and friendly to keep things good between the children.

Anyway, two weeks ago the woman was very abusive to my husband her excuse was she had had a bad day!) she called him names and had a go at him for not working but he does work, he is on commission only and his own boss so he doesnt do 9 to 5 every single day but he earns more than her husband who works 12 hours a day for min wage, thats not our fault but she keeps having a go at my husband because she is frustated about her husbands job! anyway after this time she had a massive go at him, he deleted her from fb.

Big mistake, because her husband phoned us after midnight shouting the odds for him deleting his wife! he threatened to come and kick my husbands face it and burn our house down!!

So my husband was ordered to friends request her again! which he did, mainly because we were both concerned about these threats, we have children here and dont want to put them in danger so friends requesting her again was the safest option.

Anyway me and my husband have said we will be polite when we see them at school but not overly friendly in the hope that we can eventually just be classed as acquaintances and they may leave us alone. we dont want to rock the boat and have our house burnt down so we will say hello when we see them but that is it.

They are acting like nothing has happened but the husband has been a bit scary with me, im feeling harrassed, everytime i see him at school he wont leave me alone, he asks questions about me and my husband, he doesnt like it if i dont answer him or only give one word answers, he bugs me and asks me whats wrong. and he has also grabbed me a few times when i havent given him an answer he wants or when he wants to get my attention. i was walking out of school yesterday and he grabbed my arm and wouldnt let go but he didnt say anything, i pulled away and walked off. then today he followed me and child into the park near school and then stormed off because i wasnt playing on a park toy with him! its a big bopit type thing! hes 40 years old and even his child didnt want to play on it so he grabbed his child and said "we're going" and stormed off. hes unstable and im a bit scared of him.

I dont know what to do. im very concerned that he is getting physical and we have seen his temper. even his wife has said in the past how aggressive he can be with her and im very worried that he has turned his attention to me.

i dont know what to do.

OP posts:
InAStateOfReflux · 13/05/2011 21:42

I don't think it would make it worse. All the OP needs to say if he notices is, "we decided not to go on facebook anymore as we think it is a load of bollocks and there are plenty of other ways to stay in touch"...

Then simply not stay in touch with them.

They can not then take it personally as the OP has not just de-friended them, but everyone. Any of her real friends she can discreetly explain why she has come off, and I'm sure they will understand.

TotallyUtterlyDesperate · 13/05/2011 21:51

I put people on FB into lists, then set my privacy so that acquaintances or people who are in my profession but not RL friends cannot see my wall, photos or anything much at all. That way, they don't feel aggrieved, but just think I don't post much any more as they can't see anything.

Not saying that the OP should do that as I think this has got too serious, but it is a useful feature.

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