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vent: crazy inlaw
my dh has a crazy inlaw. just an ex: she broke into my dh's facebook account and was sending messages to herself as though they came from me. her dh sent it to a computer expert and found out it came from her, so that is how we know. just a few months ago, we had to change vaca plans b/c she planned the same exact vaca as us (same hotel and all) on my 5 year old's bday. it's a vacation we do every year for his bday, so it could not have been a coincidence. it is all so bizarre. everytime i think she can't get any crazier, she does. now she is "liking" my things of pinterest. i even left off my last name so she couldn't find me and she somehow did! although i did have a picture up of me and my dc, never thinking she could find me by just my first name. grrr. it's all so bizarre. i don't get why someone would stalk me like this that i don't even talk to and haven't in 5 years. she is not even an aspect in our life and i have no desire of being in hers.
anyone deal w. someone like this? how do you get them to stay away? i guess i can't? it just really freaks me out!
Re: vent: crazy inlaw
Unfriend her and block her so that she cannot access your FB page.
If you still get weirdo posts that look like they may be her but under another name, report them to FB. Maybe they can ban her ISP.
You need to find a way to cut her off completely so she cannot contact you. She also needs to NOT know of any of your plans.
And if it gets funky, report this to the police. She sounds like she may be nuts.
You really need to button down your online presence. This person sounds very disturbed.
I have a friend who has been stalked by an ex-girlfriend for over 20 years now. He stays off of the Internet for the most part and lives his life. Keeps an unlisted phone number, etc.
You need to take this seriously and either get off of social networking sites altogether or use a new email that does not include any variation of your name, and a fake name, not just leaving off your last name.
thx ladies, i know i do have to be more careful. i am realizing more and more just how off balance she really is. when this all first started with her i thought it was more of her just being a nasty/mean person who didn't like me. she lied about things re my marriage and family which is what started the whole estrangement/cutoff from her. but it has definitely gone to a different level the past 2 years or so. We don't have anything to do with her other than what we have to (like we only see her at big fam parties and we completely ignore her/don't talk, etc) so i thought she would eventually just leave us alone. but she hasn't and seems to have gotten worse. i had a family blog that not only she would check, but so would her best friend and mom, who i don't even know, and they would leave comments. i took that down after realizing who it was. re: facebook she has been blocked since i have been on it. she recently friended one of my dh's best friends wives, who emailed me to tell me. the friend knows we are going on another vaca in a few months out of the country and friend told me that she was writing things about the same place we are going. this is after we had to change other vaca plans a few months ago b/c she booked the same hotel as us at the same exact time. i have no idea how crazy inlaw knows we are going out of the country. i change my name on here every few months too. i will probably close this account today now that i am thinking about it, I wonder if she is checking/reading this b/c i have written about my vaca plans via this name, asking for suggestions, etc. it's all been so bizarre. the things she has said about me are really nasty so i don't understand if she doesn't like me so much, why she does stuff like this. i guess i shouldn't try and understand crazy?