How would you deal with this?
We live in base housing. 2 months ago a new neighbor showed up on my doorstep,saying that another neighbor had told her my son's had been climbing in her truck bed and broken her stroller. When I asked my boys about it they said they climbed in to get their ball. I ofc, apologized profusely and offered repeatedly to pay for the broken part, which she refused saying that it was a small part and the stroller still worked. My kids were also grounded for their misbehavior. That was two months ago.
Yesterday this chick made a post in a Facebook group for our neighborhood saying that "everytime" they went out of town her neighbors kids were destroying her property and what a shitty parent they had and various other crap. This is the third post she has made like this recently. I was pissed. I asked her to stop with the slander and she responded by saying that my kids were liars and now she knew why because I was obviously a liar and everyday they were messing with people's things and throwing stuff at each other, that they were always walking around late to and from school, that "literally everyone" on our street had said something to her about my kids doing things just a whole bunch of crap. Oh and she said that I had refused to pay for her stroller and just blew her off. I sent her a private message asking her to act like a damn adult and stop posting shit all over Facebook and then she told me a "decent" person would have paid for it anyway and her husband was going to the cops. I know damn well what she's saying isn't true, my kids are on time every day and home from school within 10 minutes of the bell ringing and they are not allowed to play with the kids on this street at all because if some things I've heard the other kids say so they play at the park with another friend and is supervised by me or his mother. She also said that they are stealing her daughter's birthday cards out of her mailbox....ofc she offers no proof of this other then "someone told me".
My husband just got to his new squadron and doesn't want to talk to his supervision about this. His answer is to move off base. I am no longer in so I have no recourse as far as chain of command is concerned. I don't feel that I should be forced to move because my neighbors are immature children. I only have screenshots of yesterday's conversation because I was trying to just ignore the crap up until now. As far as I'm concerned this is harassment but my husband got mad at me for messaging her and said I was "inflammatory" because I told her to act like a damn adult. Do I have any options for making this stop? I'm afraid to let my kids walk to school now or leave the house to play with their friends because I don't want this psycho accusing them of doing something. When my husband and I confronted our boys yesterday, just to make sure, my poor son broke down in tears saying "why are they lying about us?". There is absolutely no way talking to her face to face again will be a good idea, I am far too angry at this point. I have literally spent the last 2 years hiding in my house because every time I have tried to befriend or do something nice for a woman on this base it had turned out very badly for me. I have never been so alone in my last life, my husband is leaving again, I'm pregnant and this is the last thing I need right now. I just do not know what to do. All of our neighbors are pretty new now, I don't really know any of them except the ones right next door and right across the street and this chick is turning the whole rest of the neighborhood against me, I never had an issue with neighbors till they moved in. Maybe there's no answer, but I just needed someone to talk to, I literally have no one here. Sorry so long.
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