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Oh my goodness, does anyone else have this much trouble with families?

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funkimummy · 31/01/2007 11:50

Bit of a long-winded rant, but here goes.

My DH is a loyal, hardworking, straight-laced kind of guy. Works 6 days a week to keep myself DS and DD in a comfortable lifestyle. He comes from nice family.

My family -

Have a family member (not blood related thank-god) who is a tremendous liar, thief and trouble-maker.

Story -
The troublemaker (lets call her Mrs X) decides to tell my Sister, my Father and my Mother on 3 separate occassions (whilst she was drunk as a skunk.) That her son sees my husband scoring cocaine from his personal drug dealer most weekends!!! (my husband goes out about once every two months!)

Result - Fuming parents, as they know full well that DH is too hard-working and just too tight to buy it!
Even more fuming wife - I had a go at Mrs X and now she's turned it round and twisted the story to her son.

It gets worse -
Her son (15 years of age, uneducated and not living with parents now) never said anything about my DH, and is absolutely mortified! His mother told him that my Mother had stated my DH was paranoid with children and asked Mrs X if there was a possibility of my DH being on drugs.

I don't really know what to do about it. Mrs X poor son is only 15, and his mother has used him to fabricate a complete lie!

If it wasn't so spiteful it would be laughable! DH was prepared to let it go because he thought it came from 15 yr old who has issues. Then realised it came from Mrs X.

I had to tell Mrs X's 15 year old son that his Mother was lying. (He rang me yesterday to find out what went on.) and now I feel awful.

Suggestions please?!?!

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funkimummy · 31/01/2007 13:06

Trust me to post whilst site maintenance is happening?

Anyone?

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titchy · 31/01/2007 13:20

Didn't want you to be ignored!

Sounds like everyone, her son included, has a fairly good idea of what Mrs X is really like! How close is she to your family? How often do you see her? TBH if everyone knows what she's like then there's not a lot you can do. At least people seem to know she isn't telling the truth so no harm should come to you because of her stories.

either ignore her, oh fake (sarcastic) real concern, whilst raising your eyebrows to other member of your family. Or go along with it - 'I know, dh was telling me how much the price of cocaine had gone up the other day. Apparetnly his dealer now only makes half of what he used to. Isn't that terrible - inflation these days!'

funkimummy · 31/01/2007 13:24

She is my Uncle's wife. We have a big family. The older members of family know what she is like (not including her husband of course!) Younger members have still to learn what a conniving evil piece of works she is.

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funkimummy · 31/01/2007 13:50

Anyone else got any views on this? Apart from thinking she is an awful person and a bad mother (on many different levels.

I don't normally agree with physical violence, but I feel like whopping her one!

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