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To keep writing Facebook statuses then deleting them before posting

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Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 13:53

I need help to stop me from doing it.

I deleted Facebook a couple of months ago to concentrate on my disabled DS and my DP. I kept getting drawn in to other people's dramas and ended up being a personal babysitter, taxi driver and basic dogsbody to pretty much everyone.

I then got really poorly with severe internal scarring and rheumatoid arthritis. DS also just started a new set of investigations into his own condition and is moving schools. It's really stressful here. So I decided to come off Facebook and focus on DS and DP for a while and get everything sorted. I wrote a status and left it on for 2 days, telling people why but saying if they really needed me id still be around and offering my number out to close friends who didn't have it. Lots of people messaged me swapping numbers, it was all fine and then I deactivated.

The past couple of months have been really stressful, a couple of people have text me and we've met up with the DCs in the park. But mainly I've been focused on everything at home. I thought everything was all fine and lovely.

Until the other night. DP went to work (in a bar) DS went to his dads and I got on with the housework. I left at 11 to pick up DP but the pub was still packed, so DP told me to stop there and have a drink and he'd drive us both back Smile he's a sweetheart.

So I stopped for a couple but then DPs ex, who is fine, but a bit clingy, started hassling me a bit, nothing terrible just following me, trying to find out details about our lives, she does this a lot and I'm friendly but vague with her, DP saw this and told me to see if anyone was in the other pub we go in and he'd text me when he was closing so I wouldn't have to deal with her, and he knew I hadn't been out or done anything for myself for ages so he wanted me to have a couple of hours off. So off I went.

In the other pub I saw my friend dave and his girlfriend. I chatted to dave and he introduced me to his new girlfriend and I started talking to her. About 5 minutes later my other friend turned up, one of my closest friends, or so I thought. I waved but she didn't see me so I told dave and he went over to say hi but she turned her back on him. He came back and told me and I said "oh she's probably just pissed" then I got a text off DP saying he was closing and went back to him.

The next morning dave* rings me and says "I know you aren't on Facebook but your friend has just put a status on saying we were in the pub snogging last night! My girlfriend is fuming with your friend, why would she say that?"

I was obviously really confused and text her asking why she'd said that and told her that dave and his girlfriend are annoyed about the obvious lie, plus anyone else who was there would know it was a lie, and asked her what I had done to make her do that?

Anyway dave rang again and said she deleted the status instantly and wrote "not even bothered, you lied about my husband that's why I hate you"

Now I haven't really spoken to anyone properly apart from DP for the past 2 months, when I've met up with people I've only spoken about DS, and I don't really know her husband well, just that he's friends with DP but I don't often talk to him so I wouldn't have anything to say about him anyway :/.

I text her again and asked her what was wrong with her and then she just deleted all her statuses and started putting stuff about not liking people. I don't really know what because I told dave that unless it was a lie about me then I didn't want to know.

I'm really confused about what I could have possibly done? I did delete snapchat the other night because my friend was having a party that I hadn't been invited to anyway (so it can't be that I didn't go) and was sending lots of snapchats at 2am and had woken DS up (I have my phone on loud because DP works late and I worry) but surely deleting an app wouldn't cause someone to act like this would it? I've babysat her child while she was in hospital and I've been with her to all her other child's appointments to push for a diagnosis with her and I've been her personal taxi for the past 2 years. I really don't understand.

So, after feeling like I was actually 13 again for a couple of days and not wanting to tell anyone because it sounded so ridiculously childish, today I have got the rage on and keep reactivating Facebook, writing out really ranty statuses (which I have never done before, I hardly ever posted) and then just cancelling them before they posted and deactivating it again.

It won't help to do this will it? Tell me to just ignore it all and to let it go and slap the rage out of me please?

I'm just really annoyed that she'd tried to break up my relationship by lying because she "hates me" but won't tell me what I've done.

Someone please give me a shake and tell me not to stoop to her level.

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petitdonkey · 01/07/2014 13:57

It all sounds terribly complex but I think the main point (that you know already) is that she sounds bonkers and you are best to ignore. However, I do understand that this is easier said than done in RL. Have you tried calling her rather than texting?

Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 13:59

I called but she just cancelled it. She seems to have no intentions of sorting things out or having it out directly with me, she just seems to want to post stuff on Facebook. The is 34 as well, not in her teens.

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Smelsa · 01/07/2014 13:59

Oh GOD. Get off facebook, grow up a bit and get some friends that don't act like teenagers* or Jeremy Kyle rejects.

*no offence intended to teenagers who don't behave like... teenagers

CoffeeTea103 · 01/07/2014 13:59

This all sounds like a load of childish drama of which you are very much involved. Your fb activity, writing out big statuses , getting involved in other peoples dramas, deactivating is extremely attention seeking.Confused
Just stay away from people who cause trouble, don't get sucked in and also don't add to it yourself.

Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 14:00

I've also texted a mutual friend asking if I've offended anyone and asking any that was said, mutual friend said that I hadn't offended her but in regards to other friend, I'd have to ask her.

Mutual friend obviously doesn't want to get involved and I respect that, I don't think I would either. It's all horribly childish and not really what I need Hmm

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Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 14:02

Sorry I didn't actual post the statuses, I sort of just wrote them out, then cancelled them and deactivated, no one has noticed that I've reactivated it because I haven't actually posted anything at all. I just did that in a fit of rage

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Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 14:07

I deactivated it two months ago because I hardly used it but whenever I did I used to just end up getting sucked in to statuses like "can anyone please babysit x" or "I really need a lift" or " I need help with this form" and ended up spending my life just running around after everyone else and was shattered. I don't like it. But I used it to keep in touch with people so I put the status up two months ago saying I was leaving it just to get people's numbers who wanted to keep in touch still. Which I got and was fine.

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DoJo · 01/07/2014 15:22

Why are you chasing around trying to find out why she's upset with you if you know you haven't done anything? She has behaved appallingly - isn't that all you need to know?

CiderLover · 01/07/2014 16:17

Perhaps she is jealous of you?

ViviPru · 01/07/2014 16:24

Worrying this much about Facebook, Snapchat, who is snogging who in which pub and concerns about the security of your relationship based on he-said-she-said sounds exhausting and decidedly teenage.

You either secretly love all this drama, in which case go right ahead. Or you acknowledge that it's a thoroughly immature way to exist; in which case distance yourself from these people and social media. Not difficult.

Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 16:31

I think I'm trying to find out why because we are (or were) really close. I don't have any family really. I guess I'll just distance myself, but that'll mean being isolated all over again.

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LucindaAsquith · 01/07/2014 16:44

Facebook is chavness personified.

Get off it.

Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 16:45

I am off it. I reactivated it and wrote something out then just didn't post it and just deactivated it again. I'm just really angry/upset.

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FlirtingWithConvention · 01/07/2014 16:47

OP I have to admit I feel slightly envious of your active social life- bumping into mates in the pub etc...

Remember Facebook is an actual broadcast. Don't make yourself look a muppet by ranting over things that most people won't have a clue about.

Since it seems that you've been such a giver in the past, my money is on the fact that you have withdrawn your giving to concentrate on yourself. People don't like that when they come to expect and rely upon your giving - they behave extremely irrationally. It is unlikely to be anything as small as removing snapchat. She probably thinks you are extremely selfish for not sacrificing all of your own needs and the needs of your family to service her.

Hurr1cane · 01/07/2014 16:53

Flirting it's not that good Grin there's two rock pubs in the whole town so people I know will either be at one or the other. I never get out though because of everything. So I spend 5 days a week just me and DS and get to spend a couple with DP.

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DoJo · 01/07/2014 20:09

If you really want to work out what happened, then you need to get in touch with her, ask her why she's so angry with you and be prepared for the answer. If she won't answer her phone to you, leave a message. DO NOT post a status on Facebook - it will not end well and everyone else you know will then be privy to your personal spat.

emms1981 · 01/07/2014 21:02

Just ignore her, aslong as your dp and your friends dp know the truth does it matter?
I deleted fb for a number of reasons but one was my mad cousin who I don't know started fights with me and I have better things to do.
I took up driving lessons after getting rid!

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