My Boyfriend's Relative is Stirring Up Trouble
By StacyB
@Srbageldog (7716)
United States
September 8, 2017 2:34pm CST
I just got off the phone with my boyfriend's older adoptive sister (who is also his aunt, since his grandma is the one who adopted him.) She wanted to know if we had moved because some cousin they've been fighting in court over their grandma's estate apparently went over to my boyfriend's mom's house last night and told her we moved to a "really nice house" and didn't tell her. Neither one of us knows this guy -- my boyfriend has never met him -- and I'm pretty ticked to find out he's going around spreading lies about us. Now my boyfriend's mom is all upset thinking we moved and didn't tell her.
His sister/aunt warned me that this guy has our address and might be by to hassle us. I told her that he can come by all he wants but I don't answer the door when I'm not expecting company, and I never let strange men into my home. If he keeps pounding on my door the cops will be called. I don't care if he's related to my boyfriend or not, we don't know him.
Part of me wonders if the sister/aunt isn't just making all this stuff up though, or bending the truth to make the guy seem more evil than he actually is. Whatever the case, I don't appreciate the added stress of being dragged into their weird family drama. The grandma whose estate they are fighting over died over 20 years ago in the 1990s. Why they are just NOW fighting over the estate is beyond me. It's not like we would likely get anything from it, and my boyfriend doesn't expect anything, so he couldn't care less about the whole ordeal.
I had to message my boyfriend's mom on Facebook and let her know that we most definitely did NOT move, and if we ever did we would let her know. We have lived in the exact same place for the past 9 years. Now I'll wait and see if she responds. If she's completely confused over my message, I'll know the sister/aunt is lying to stir up trouble. If she goes off on a rant about their cousin saying we moved into a nice house, then I'll know the strange cousin we don't know is lying to stir up trouble. Either way, someone in that family is lying and trying to stir up trouble, and I don't appreciate being dragged into their drama, especially when we don't even know this guy.
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6 responses
@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
9 Sep 17
@Srbageldog This is something I cannot understand, which is the reason?
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Sep 17
@LadyDuck It seems like he is trying to turn my boyfriend's mom against us, but why? That's the question. He doesn't even know us. I'm completely baffled by this.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Sep 17
I cannot see any purpose to spreading those rumors either. People are indeed crazy. What a thing to lie about, of all things. And why would you say those things about someone you don't even know? It just baffles me.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Sep 17
Me too. I don't understand how we even got dragged into it. We don't even know this man that's saying this stuff.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Sep 17
@Courtlynn I kinda wonder if it's not the sister just making up stuff to stir up drama. Who knows. If any strange "cousin" shows up trying to harass me I will just call the police.
@marguicha (215481)
• Chile
8 Sep 17
No one just "says" I´m a cousin. There are some laws everywhere.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Sep 17
Well, he is technically my boyfriend's cousin; my boyfriend just has never met him, at least he doesn't remember ever meeting him. We don't know him. So I don't know why he's even talking about us at all...
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
10 Sep 17
It's horrible enough when it's family members you know and are familiar with...but just weird when it's one you've never met trying to cause a feud between you and other family members. Some people have too much time on their hands I guess! I know I sure wouldn't go around visiting relatives and telling lies about their kids I'd never met...
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
8 Sep 17
Hmm, could be! I honestly don't know. I've never met the person the sister is claiming said these things, but she's painted him out to be pretty evil!
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@sallypup (57914)
• Centralia, Washington
8 Sep 17
@Srbageldog My Mom stirred up trouble in my family between us kids then we found out she didn't know half what she thought she did. Dementia creeping in.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
8 Sep 17
@sallypup These are older family members (in their 60s at least, although the cousin could be older than that) so it's definitely a possibility!
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
8 Sep 17
I most definitely will! I hope the cousin doesn't show up here. I have bad anxiety and don't need to deal with anyone's craziness! Hopefully he's not foolish enough to just show up at someone's home who he doesn't even know...
