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SIL and name calling?

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Voni2208 · 03/05/2017 19:32

OK I'm ready to be told I'm BU but I can't be the only one who finds this odd...
Everytime me and DH see SIL (his sister) she always end up calling him (and sometimes me, but mainly him) some name or other. Usually pillock/plonker/idiot/wally/stupid/Duffus etc. Not too bad really as far as name calling goes, but this is literally EVERYTIME we see them (several times a week). Any time she speaks to him she'll use a name. But if he says anything back or calls her a name she throws a massive tantrum and slams doors/storms out. She's 33, he's 30, but this has gone on forever as far as I can tell. She also speaks to her DH and kids (DD 9, DD 7, DS 3) the same way.
Most days I just shrug it off or ignore her but it's really got to me today. I think it's bullying and horrible and I hate that she does it.
The thing that has completely wound me up is her telling my 2 year old DD (in the parrot stage) to say "daddy is a plonker" then laugh her head off so DD says it more and more then says I'm a prude who can't take a joke when I ask her to stop.
I know I probably am BU, she doesn't see that she's doing any harm as to her it's funny...

OP posts:
pluck · 03/05/2017 19:56

Would your little "parrot" repeat, "Stoppit, Aunty Wind-Up."

HildaOg · 03/05/2017 20:06

Treat her as you would a child. "Don't call me that, it's obnoxious", when she starts to tantrum immediately get up and leave. Repeat until she has manners.

StillDrivingMeBonkers · 03/05/2017 20:08

Is it a family thing, the name calling? Do they all call each other pillocks?

OVienna · 03/05/2017 20:10

Yup, she's insanely irritating.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 03/05/2017 20:10

She sounds a complete bore. Just call her the same thing back every single time and if she tantrums laugh at her.

zoobaby · 03/05/2017 21:04

She's teaching your DD to be disrespectful to her own father. You'll be next. Nip it in the bud.

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