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Old Aug 22, 2014, 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by shakespeare47 View Post
Thank you for the kind words, liliodian4ever...

To give you an idea of how I feel about this couple. Imagine this. A couple comes into your home, overpowers you, vandalizes your home in front of you... smashes windows, breaks furniture, destroys items that have great sentimental value, then laughs at your powerlessness, tells you they think its funny that you would never be able to prove anything, because there are no witnesses... and then continues to taunt you whenever you see them in the future.

Then when you start to talk about it for the first time.. someone like ifst5 asks you if were sure you weren't hallucinating at the time.

So, perhaps it was a strong reaction... but, I hope you can see where I am coming from.

By the way... I showed this thread to my wife... and we've been talking about it. Even though she didn't experience the specific things that they did when we were alone... she told me that she is aware of plenty of the things that they did that were just weird and manipulative and she is glad we don't have to deal with them except at rare occasions like the recent wedding.. it's just that she has a hard time just ignoring them... or being rude to them. The incident at the wedding over the weekend was just my wife talking to his wife for a few minutes, his wife initiated it. and his wife did virtually all of the talking, and I was sitting close by, so I heard the entire conversation.
Yeah, I see your perspective and understand your frustration completely. I guess, sometimes, it's hard to express or convey the whole story on a forum like this, so maybe readers don't get the complete picture. Then, their responses may aggravate our frustration.

Anyway, about those people, yeah, they sound absolutely evil. You mentioned running into them at a wedding. Do you live in a small town where it's hard to escape them ?

If I were in your shoes, I think I'd do what ifst5 suggested ... just try to be superficially nice, even though you're cursing them under your breath. I know it sounds lame, but I've learned through my own bitter experience that diplomacy does work well in such situations, and the best part of it is that YOU don't get stressed. If you have done nothing to create animosity, the other person has no right to mistreat you, and you end up becoming the good guy and the other guy is exposed as the bad guy.