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To be fed up of the girl staying with me ?

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BasKaro · 08/09/2023 11:16

I am having a bit of a vent , but I need to offload somewhere....

A girl we don't know has ended up at our house. My husband slightly knew hers (friend of a friend) and my husband got called when they got "kicked out" of their accommodation. He told my husband the landlord was being bad (they are a student and dependant so it is common) but it transpired he had been beating her, severely, and the landlord asked them to leave because of that. I was away when this all happened, but came home to the girl being here, the husband was kicked out after one day by my husband (I'd have not let him in the door but I didn't know anything).

So, I've "taken over", got her to hospital, reported to the police , linked her with womens aid etc. etc. I've been through abuse, I really get it. I've literally held her hand through every wobble, been at every appointment shes asked me to, bought her things to cheer her up (I mean at least make a few minutes abit brighter in her day) and been really on the back of the police/solicitors etc .

But omg I think I'm going to break. She has a very part time job as she needs to save for her fees as he took the money (we take zero rent, zero for food, we buy everything basic or even trips out for context). It's maybe 15 min walk in q safe, lit area. She calls all the time for a lift from my husband and one day he said abit bluntly that she can walk, he's in the other direction with the kids at a park. She didn't speak to him for 2 days. I tried to make a joke of it and "joke scold" him to break the tension but then she was just so rude, telling him to get out of the kitchen where she was, brushing her hands at him. She isn't shy at all but she just won't eat unless it's cooked her her and to her liking. I thought it was awkwardness or shyness but it's not. Sometimes she'll come to me with some work for me (emailing her uni or something) and be like "is there anything to eat?". Like yesterday I just had toast while she slept and said I had toast and she sort of sniffed and walked away. We took her out with us and she said it was boring (just 2h at a farm thing with the kids) and sniffed her way around while on the phone. Sometimes I hear her giggling away on the phone and then she'll see im home and come out of the room past me, sniffing away. When anything isn't going her way (like her husband called mine and he told her the next day and she was screeching at him that he should have said and wasn't satisfied with the answers my husband was giving). When I finally found her husband (police couldn't find) I needed some info asap from her and she just was faffing and gossiping away about irrelevant info (when searching for the person the husband was staying with she commented the surname was of a "lower" caste so was like "fake screaming" about it and researching that when I desperately needed address info so I could notify the police asap before he left. Bearing in mind police have been looking 3m for him. When I was upset about her and my husband emailing about me at 11pm (he emailed her a big bitchy email.about me and she never told me, despite wanting every crumb of info about her husband from us) , she suddenly "had cancer". She doesn't, she saw she had hpv in her smear which was a month previous.
Anyway, I feel like now she is not eating for attention . I don't know how to deal with it. When she does this before my husband called her dad and she kind of "got off on it" and I think it's set a precedent.... I don't know. My husband is very unsympathetic, he just tunes out. I have mixed feelings, obviously she is going through a hell of a time but I feel like if I run around literally spoon feeding her it's going to spiral. There is everything she says she likes here, she isn't shy to ask for cakes or biscuits or whatever when out, isn't shy to go to the kitchen when we are here or house empty , she'll happily ask for expensive face creams or parlour visits so it's really not that.
What do I do?

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SheSaidHummingbird · 12/09/2023 23:20

@Grrrpredictivetex Far from it.

JackandJo · 13/09/2023 14:02

This is NOT your responsibility I think because u have been in an abusive relationship you have empathised an it's got u into this situation . Users will take kindness for weakness Every Single Time trust me I've learned the hard way your obviously a good person with a lot of empathy but this Will escalate she is NOT your responsibility shes old enough to sort her own life out let her dad deal with her and she sounds completely UNGRATEFUL just to twist the knife Get Her Out of Your House

BasKaro · 13/09/2023 20:31

Not much to update for whoever asked if I'm coming back. She's still gone, called H for some reason and he said to basically not rely on him for help and she said she'll never call again. I don't even want to ask how she's getting on etc, I don't want to have any slither of opportunity for this drama to come back in to my life. H was super happy she was gone , I think he used the opportunity and excuse of me to get her out- he gets bored of his new "source" quickly. So thats really it for now . We did end up going away for the weekend but it started very late because of all this. I did have a guilt wobble when we got back and felt bad for her then I remembered everything on this thread.

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raynedeer · 13/09/2023 20:42

YANBU at all!

Emz6103 · 14/09/2023 00:08

Well done OP, thank God it's over xx

T1Dmama · 14/09/2023 09:33

I hope you’re ok OP. Good luck with your exit plan

BasKaro · 17/07/2025 20:14

Well, have I got an update on this! I'll make a new thread

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Grrrpredictivetex · 17/07/2025 20:36

@BasKaroplease link new thread on here.

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