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I need some solid advice please. My husbands ex wife has alienated all but two members of his family from me?

Even more so she has spread lies to them and their 5 children. One child (21) in particular goes home and tells lies or seriously exaggerated events about what goes on in our home. I have for the past 11 years sat back and tried to wait for this behavior to pass. Lately though, it has gotten so much worse. The children are grown and in college, they still come to our house every other weekend. I mostly stay in my office or outside when they are here to avoid the rude comments and let their Father have time with them. On holidays my husbands family will go to her siblings house with her and the children and many of them will not come to our house. I have done nothing to them. Their marriage ended when she had an affair and became pregnant with her married colleague. I met him a year after their divorce. She has told him that she is jealous of me....I just don't know what to do in this situation and neither does he. She is obsessed with posting photos of them together when they were married and photos of herself with his family in current days....on FB. Am I insane for being bothered by this? I really am as it hurts me that I don't feel that I will ever be close to his family, and hurts me that he is being snubbed even more. Any advice?

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  • 9 years ago
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    My advice: improve your staying out of it skills, because right now, they suck, big time.

  • 9 years ago

    You can not control what this woman does, and she is obviously a wack job. You have to accept the reality of the situation and frankly ignore it as far as she is concerned, I know hard to do. Know this you married your husband not his family. If you and he are tight, then hold on to each other and let no one come between you. Honestly now that the children are adults or older your husband needs to put a stop to it, and should have never let it get this far. You should be the most important person in his life, yes above his kids!. You've put up with this for 11 years from the kids, enough is ENOUGH!

    Source(s): This might help? Childlessstepmoms.org
  • 9 years ago

    Shouldn't ur husband be talking to his family about that? I don't get along with my husbands family but I just mind my own business which I'm sure pisses them off even more. When they try and insult me I just laugh and defend myself try doing the same. Defend urself why don't u ask his son why he's saying those things why don't u ask his ex wife to move on with her life and let u start urs. Ask her why she hasn't been able to deal with the fact that her ex husband now has a new lifer. I'd ask why she's jealous cuz t seems like she is.

  • 9 years ago

    Put your foot down! this B is acting like she is in high school. Stupid childish behavior doesn't stop and you need to treat it like you would if she were really a child. Ignore her words but defend yourself. Be calm and get to each of the family members on your own terms and Tell them what is happening. If this B is saying all these things about you and you aren't standing up to defend yourself then they have nothing else to go on. Insert yourself into every aspect of his life and start being involved with these people and proving that this woman is insane. They are his family, they should hate her for the simply fact of the awful way she left him. But don't let her bully you. Show them the real truth and stand up for yourself, and make sure that guy of yours is behind you.

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  • 9 years ago

    I know how you feel. My husband and I have a very meddlesome - I call obsessed ex wife. She has done the same thing to me. He has 3 children with this woman and I can tell you, if I had to do it again...I would have run from the first hello. This has been the hardest thing that I have ever had to deal with. What I do is - I remember that I love him and remember that it is that that matters, not his family or his ex.... I don't take any crap from his kids and I don't really care about his family other than they are his family. If they want to maintain a relationship with her, this is fine. I have lost nothing....it is his problem to deal with. I didn't invite her or them into my life. We are happy - I am lucky to have him..... My advice is to get thicker skin and remember that the people who side with those who are nuts - are probably nuts themselves.

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