Okay, so this is a really long and complicated one. My ex’s ex is a nightmare. I’ve got one (young) child with my recent ex and it’s been a nightmare since he moved in with me. His kid and step kid have been horrible to me since they moved into my house and I’ve had the most traumatic times of my life as a first time mum, with no emotional support from my partner (now ex) and he let his kids treat me like crap. Long story short, his ex is a nightmare. She left her kids and just left him to do all the parenting (before I met him)- I think she had a bit of a breakdown or something. But now, years later, she’s moved on and doing better and able to have her kids now, but extremely patronising and argumentative and the kids have these nightmare parents as their role models. Long story short, I’m getting out- moving my child and I out the house as I can’t bear it and moving back down south to be closer to work and closer to my family because of how I’ve been treated by my ex and his kids. My ex’s ex has texting communication with us/me monthly and there’s always dramas- she also doesn’t back me up and it’s all just so toxic. It’s like the whole family haven’t accepted me- and why would they, when I represent so much change? Anyway, the reason I’m posting this is because I’m moving back down South where my family live to escape all of this. I have a few friends down there, too, and every Easter and Christmas, we all gather down South. Long story short, my ex’s ex, is dating a sibling of one of my acquaintances down South. They’re in a serious relationship and have been for almost a year or more. As a result, both the sibling of my mate, and my ex’s ex, will be down South at Christmas. So the place I’m going to escape the Drama for a while (until I move out) and the place where these people are completely removed from my life and I’m drama free, my ex’s ex will be there- drinking with all my friends over Christmas. I’m literally in disbelief. Wondering what I should do- I don’t want to avoid going out or my mates, as it’s my Christmas, too, and my chance to escape. But the place I’m escaping to, I feel like it’s not proper escaping, because she’ll be there. She won’t be with her kids, because they’ll be with their Dad- who’s also my child’s Dad. But I just need someone to vent to. I’m absolutely gutted. I was trying to rid this person from my life and I can’t believe she’s going to be on ‘my’ soil- the place I grew up, my hometown. I’m gutted. Someone even said there’s talk of them moving there. I feel like I’m being punished for something I did in a past life. I can never fully rid myself from these people as I have a child with my ex and my child has a half sibling with my ex and his ex’s kids. And then she’s popping up in family soil territory. Gutted