AIBU to repair the fence once, then draw a line?

[jmrpinkie]

Long story - try to keep it short.

damaged fence! When we moved in we didn’t know who owned which side. We fixed some screws for some wiring to the fence. Neighbour informed us it’s her fence and shes not happy about us fixing stuff to it. Totally fine. We removed it. Admittedly probably not immediately but within a few weeks it was gone. That was two years ago. A couple months ago one of the posts has failed at the base. She had a go twice now at us saying we’ve broken her fence because we fixed things to it and our son plays football and kicks the ball at her fence. He was 4 - he doesn’t kick it at the fence, it may have on the odd occasion rebounded off the fence. I get it it’s annoying but he did not break her fence! She also has some massive bushes the other side of this post. Anyways I just can’t be bothered dealing with her or arguing because of course there is a chance it was our fault. So I have someone coming to fix it today. I’m hoping that is it tbh and she says no more. But I am a little worried that if anything else goes wrong with any of the other panels she’ll start to say it was us too when it definitely couldn’t have been.
any advice on how to draw a line in the sand? She sticks to herself but anytime she’s spoken to us She’s quite agressive. You can’t have a sensible conversation with her.

tbh i would not have the work done. You need to have a conversation that the fence is broken and it’s up to her to either do a tactical fix or replace the whole lot as she is responsible for maintaining the boundary

If you get the work done you leave yourself exposed to her being even more of a nutter

I know. But I also really just do not want to be in a dispute with her. I appreciate we may just be delaying the dispute but that’s kind of why I’m just wondering if there is anything I can do to just draw a line under it. My partner spoke to her son and said we didn’t think we had damaged it but that we would fix it just to get the job done and they have a big bush the other side. He disagreed but agreed to trim the bush. He’s also very polite (he lives there) but doesn’t want to speak to us!!