DD(9 nearly 10) is challenging at the best of times right now, but aibu to be particularly sick of the loitering?
She’s asked to do something, I get an earful from her, that’s dealt with, I remind her she has something to do (can be anything) and then she’ll leave the room but loiter outside it instead.
Or, she’ll get out of bed at night to sit on the landing to try to listen to DH and I talking. And not salacious gossip talking, just general evening chit chat that is usually following on from things we’ve all discussed earlier.
I’ve tried to have a gentle chat about anxiety and if she’s worried about anything etc but she just outright lies as says she doesn’t do it and makes up elaborate stories. Which is then just another issue in itself. Else she puts herself by storming into the room to interrupt a conversation with yelling because she’s completely got the wrong end of the stick and then I’ve got a whole mess of things to deal with.
DH thinks it’s just a phase and, although it does annoy him, just wants to let it go. And I don’t know if because I’m bearing the brunt of the rest of the anger etc, that this is just one thing to far because I just feel suffocated by a complete lack of privacy. Aibu?