Evening all, I would like some on advice on whether I am being unreasonable or not about feeling upset about the breakdown between my family and our neighbours. I don’t know if anyone on here remembers my previous post about my neighbours who kept driving over my drive and walking over it etc.
We’ve lived here for just over a year now and basically after 10 months of us parking awkwardly trying to get them to take the hint, we ended up taking physical action and if anyone read my previous post they will remember me saying the reason our patience wore out was because they very nearly scratched my DP’s car because they squeezed in between one of theirs and ours to get of their drive.
They did speak to us now and again up until the situation happened but it was only small talk, so basically long story short after they squeezed down the side of our car we put plant pots down the side of the drive along the boundary line.
Since the plant pots have gone down they basically do not talk to us or our children anymore at all.. not even a hello even though we continue to say morning when we do see them. I said to my other half I feel sad that this happened because I did want a good relationship with them and that if this was the other way I would feel mortified that my neighbours felt they had to take any action at all. They seem to have dropped talk with us like we are at fault but it was their actions which were unneighbourly first.
should I just accept that there will never be a good relationship between them or should I just keep trying to be friendly and hope that the longer we live here we may just become neighbourly again if we don’t cause any other rifts?
maybe kill them with kindness?