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Originally Posted by MavriforceK9r
She sounds like a child-minded bully to me. You need to stand up to her and your husband needs to do the same. I kind of have a similar situation with one of my brothers and am considering ways to take him down a notch. His behavior is a large part of my stress as well. If you can't reason with her then, you may have to just cut her off for a while until she learns to respect you. It may even be a good idea to tell her this to her face and if she refuses to listen to reason or tries any of her tricks then end the conversation there and just ignore and avoid her for a while.
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It's been a few weeks, but this is exactly the measures we took. Stated how I felt about all this once, not going over it again. Not responding to her frantic efforts to drag us back into a fight or absolve herself for acting like a bully. We haven't seen her since then.
If in the future she attempts to goad me into an argument or just throws another tantrum, I'm just going to walk away. We are disengaged from her now -- what the survivor community refers to as Medium Chill. She either knows full well we aren't going to take her bs anymore or we will tell her that to her face, but no more drama in this house.