Neighbors hate me
My husband and I moved from New York to the south for his job as he was promoted. This has been hard for me personally, leaving behind my career, friends and family. My oldest daughter who’s a senior in high school has been having a hard time as well.
We’ve lived here for a year now and today, the one last neighbor who was willing to interact with me blatantly ignored me and held eye contact while doing so.
My husband and I are the newest members of the neighborhood, and 1 of 2 of the two married couples. We live on a street with mostly women and upon finding that out I was ecstatic because I thought we’d be friends. We introduced ourselves to the neighbor right next to us and she was seemingly really nice.
Now, she’s turned the whole neighborhood against me, not my husband…just me! The first thing I noticed is that she would only ever interact with my husband, never me. Literally every single time my husband would be outside, she would somehow appear and they’d end up talking for hours. At first I didn’t notice it but one day he came in and said she’d invited him to an event saying “you should come with me to ‘event’ you’d love it”.
A few days later, she was outside speaking to her friend which was also our landscaper and I just so happened to walk out and I spoke to her friends who were standing about 6 ft from me, they spoke back and then I spoke to her who was standing about 2 feet away and she acted like she didn’t hear me. I literally had to yell for her to acknowledge I was there. Her friend and his wife had a confused look, when I tried saying bye to them they kept looking at her and then back at me and then ignored me. Later that night he told my husband that he couldn’t help us with our landscaping anymore.
Since then, this woman completely ignores me and avoids me so she doesn’t have to say hello which I don’t want her to do, I will not force interactions with her. She’s literally lied about me blocking her driveway and I heard her say it on my own ring camera. I was supposed to go walking with her and the other women in the neighborhood, they told me once she came out they’d come get me. She came out, they were talking and as I was about to come outside they were laughing and “sneaking” away.
I have been nothing but nice to this woman, I have given her so many passes about things that I wouldn’t let anyone else get away with. For instance, her dogs damaged a shared fence, we don’t have animals and don’t use the backyard because her dogs will break through the fence, but my husband and I paid to repair the fence as she’s a single mother. She had a boyfriend who made threats by speaking out loud about my oldest son, I didn’t say a word and told my husband to just leave it alone.
Today I come back from my walk and I see her talking to the one friend I had in the neighborhood and the “friend” is staring me down and when I waved she rolled her eyes at me. She also came and stood in front of my house, made eye contact and kept eye contact until she was out of my line of vision.
I feel defeated, I don’t know what I’ve done to this woman and I attempted to extend the olive branch once and it seemingly went well until she was on my ring camera talking badly about me to another neighbor who now also hates me. I just don’t know what to do now as my “friend” is the mother of my younger kids friends and I don’t think she’ll be up for play dates anymore after how she behaved today.
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