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to ask her to have a word with her dd?

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booyhoo · 14/06/2010 21:20

OH's family and i dot get on. for OH's and the dcs' sake i am polite to his mum whenever she collects the boys. none of the rest of the family talk to me and i am happy with that. but his 15 year old sister is really getting to me. sometimes she is in the car when MIL collects dses and she has started giving dirty looks and eyeballing me whenever i come to the door. it is never when OH is there and only when her mum's back is turned. i have tried really hard in the past couple of years to put all bad feelings aside and be civil but everytime this happens it stirs it all up again when all i want to do is wave off my dcs and tell them to have a good time. this girl hasn't spoken to me since she was 10 so was really a child when all the crap happened. i can only assume she has been told one side of the story and is expressing her opinion in the only way she can. i know she is a teenager and it is ridiculous that it is irritating me this much but it happened again today and it took all my strength not to say something. i'm not going to say anything to OH because we decided long ago that we wont put him in the middle of all this. would it be unreasonable to ask MIL to have a word with her?

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booyhoo · 15/06/2010 20:36

i'm just going to ignore her, not even look near her so i wont know if she is doing it. this family are really socially ignorant when it comes to dealing with problems. their answer is to scream and shout and threaten violence so it isn't really surprising that this is how she chooses to express herself. i would really achieve nothing by speaking to MIL, they dont know how to sort things out calmly so it would end up being anotehr slanging match. i dont need the stress.

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didgeridoo · 15/06/2010 20:55

Ignore her completely. Don't give her the satisfaction of knowing she has the power to wind you up. Don't make any gestures towards her of any sort. I know it'll be tough but that way YOU stay in control.

booyhoo · 15/06/2010 20:57

yes didgeridoo, gestures would only let her know i was pissed off. ignoring will hopefully send the message that she doesn't feature on my radar.

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