Hi every one....I'm in need of some advice. There is a person who lives near me who is extremely controlling and manipulative. This person knows how to play people like a fiddle and she knows how to get them to be at her beck and call. She uses a variety of tactics like pretending to be a victim of her situations and you're the only person that can help, doing favors for you (some that you don't even ask for) with explicit directions that she will be expecting a favor in return, calling my home phone, cell phone and text messaging repeatedly in a day in order to talk to me, and using language such as "promise me that you'll put my mind at ease by doing this" and "since we're friends I know you will do this for me", etc... The other people who live near me fall for this stuff, I on the other hand feel smothered and refuse to be controlled. Because of this, there have been some arguments between myself and this person. I've retaliated by not being available when this person harasses me by phone. I don't answer. I time my behavior to have little chance of running into this person. And when she's tried to pin me down with language such as "promise me this", I don't promise her anything. I give vague answers to her questions and I am never honest with her and give her as little information as possible. I don't feel that I can just tell her to "kiss off" even though I'd like to because I have to live near her and don't want that uncomfortable situation where I'm caught outside and run into her and neither of us speaks, but just give dirty looks instead. So I'm just managing my situation by passive aggressive means in order to keep her at bay. Even if I decided to be straight up honest with her and tell her to stop with her controlling behavior, I feel it would be to no avail as she'd just make me out to be the bad guy and her the victim since being controlling of others is her way of life. This person makes me sick. So is my approach to this correct?? What do you all think??