I always seem to come off worse where toxic SIL is concerned

[amumthatcares]

Have posted before about SIL and I will try to keep this brief.

There was a bust up about 5 months between DH and SIL over our DD. I never got involved, but suddenly I was the villain of the peace and was somehow getting the blame. A month later (and I still had not got involved), after a big public announcement on Facebook, she deleted me, then blocked me off FB. At this point I became furious and cropped her out of all my FB pics....if she didn't want me on her FB, I didn't want her on mine.

That was 4 months ago. During that time I have discovered lots of horrible things she has said about me and lies she has spread. Still I have said nothing. DH tried to make up with SIL for MIL sake several weeks ago but she didn't want to know (that was the other thread)

Tonight her DD has written on my Facebook wall publicly, that she has noticed I have cropped her mum out of my pictures and how childish and pathetic I am! Her DD will only hear (and believe) her side of the story. My own DD has never got involved in anything, even though she knows how toxic her aunt has been to me (and that is the way I want it)

Now DH has found out what I did to my pics and has gone ballistic at me, telling me I should have kept a 'dignified silence'. That we will never win against her and I have given her ammunition to make me look even worse than the lies she's already told people about me. Although he did say he could go and punch her and never wants her name mentioned again, I still feel totally gutted by DH response to me

[amumthatcares]

Meerka that's exactly how I felt last night. I have sat back and said nothing during all the time that SIL has been a complete bitch to me and the one time I reach the end of my tether and retaliate (this was 4 months ago too!!) - I the devil in disguise and have to answer to everyone!!

Logg1e given my age - cropping pictures really was an immature thing to do, but it was the only way I could vent my frustration and in some ways, for me, it was like I was cutting her out of my life as has been suggested above. However, immature my behaviour was though, is nothing compared to SIL's shenanigans...but then I suppose you probably couldn't expect anything else from a person approaching 50, who thinks she's 'one of the girls' and goes clubbing with her 22 year old DD and her mates.

With regard to Facebook, because I have blocked her, her DH and her DC, none of them will be able to physically see that my FB account exists but mutual friends could well tell her except that she's such a bitch she hasn't really got any friends except we don't share the same friends. My primary reason for having Facebook is to keep in touch with family on the other side of the world

[CookieDoughKid]

Ah, leave the drama lama to find another victim elsewhere!!

[Logg1e]

Ah, ok, I thought she'd be able to see what you wrote on other people's walls(?) or something. See, I'm learning about Facebook.

[ivykaty44]

Stick a note under hers

Cropped the photos as wanted to crop her out of our lives, you are welcome to delete me and block me if you feel you should be loyal to your mum

Bet she wouldn't though as they always want to stick around like a bad smell people like that

But it puts the onus back to them which means she has yo either show disloyalty to her mum or carry on bring nosey into you life

[amumthatcares]

No, they could see what I was writing on others walls if we were just not 'friends' but if they are 'blocked' they cannot see anything I write or do and could not search for me on Facebook. For this reason I think she regrets 'blocking' me when she deleted me, because unless she uses someone elses account (hence her DD last night) she cannot see me

[amumthatcares]

Exactly ivy - she certainly won't delete/block me because that stops her DM using her account to spy on me. In actual fact the penny has just dropped there!! I did wonder why, if niece was so upset, she hadn't deleted me!

[ToffeeOwnsTheSausage]

You'll never win? It is hardly a game and him saying that is alluding to her being the high and mighty.

No problems cutting the cow out of the pictures. Getting her kids involved is far more childish.

Just because she is married to your husband's brother doesn't mean she has to be your friend.

[amumthatcares]

Getting her kids involved is far more childish - yep!!

She is DH's sister - but that still doesn't mean she has to be my friend

[Catsmamma]

check your settings, you can group people (like your niece and her father) and issue individual settings for each group.

so for you, having blocked your SIL you ought to have put any tattletales who might feed her info into a group, and then allow them very limited access to your wall.

I do love the cropping her out of photos though....that is class! :D

[amumthatcares]

Ah thanks Cats I never knew that....I am on it!!

[ivykaty44]

I'm with the other poster who suggested you replace her head with that of a pig, though in this case a makes head may be more apt with the body of a pig ;)

[amumthatcares]

hahaha ivy - after my DH's foul outburst to me the other night, I'm so relieved most of you don't think I was completely juvenile by cropping.....just wish I'd though of the pig before